Pharmacy/Pharmacist Leader
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The Pharmacy/Pharmacist Leader is accountable for pharmacy practice within state and federal laws and corporate policies. The role manages the pharmacy department’s financial performance, staff development, customer service, pricing, inventory, and clinical services. It also directs pharmacy operations and sales initiatives, monitors insurance profitability, maintains required records, and supervises and coaches direct reports.
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Accountable for all aspects of pharmacy practice, within the limits of state and federal laws and corporate policies. Manage and maximize the financial performance of the pharmacy department by monitoring the pharmacy budget, minimizing or altogether avoiding unauthorized overtime, performing necessary pharmacy staff training and development, providing excellence in customer service, managing prescription pricing and generic utilization, controlling pharmacy inventory, and providing/implementing/participating in corporate approved clinical services. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety. RESPONSIBILITIES - Perform all functions of a staff pharmacist and act as a role model for the pharmacy team; appropriately handle customer complaints and direct workflow to reduce customer wait times
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Develop, implement, supervise, and promote the sales plan and other sales initiatives as developed by the division pharmacy department
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Perform all the duties required and expected of a registered pharmacist in the state of employment and responsible for following all legal and company requirements
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Direct the pharmacy team to achieve warehouse utilization goals, avoid unnecessary overstock, reduce the number of fill on-arrival prescriptions, and ensure that all staff members are trained, aware of and follow proper ordering and inventory record keeping procedures
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Comply with all corporate mandated controlled substance operating procedures
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Monitor third-party or insurance profitability; handle third-party problems, rejections, and audits in a timely fashion
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Schedule all pharmacy staff members in a manner to help control or avoid unnecessary labor costs
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Maintain all pharmacy records required by state and federal laws and company policies
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Direct pharmacy to meet budgeted labor, volume, inventory and sales goals
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Perform effective detailing visiting local physicians and other community targets
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Promote, implement, and participate in public health initiatives and disease state management services
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Travel independently as needed to support business needs
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Supervise and coach direct reports in the performance of their duties; complete performance reviews and provide direct feedback to direct reports
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Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
QUALIFICATIONS Minimum
Bachelors Degree Pharmacy and/or Doctor of Pharmacy Degree (Pharm.D.) from an accredited U.S. School of Pharmacy
2+ years related retail experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
Minimum 21 years of age
Participation in clinical programs following company sponsored training
Ability and willingness to continue education as necessary
Ability to preserve confidentiality of information
Commitment to providing excellent customer service
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
Ability to read and interpret prescriptions and documents
Proven leadership skills
License must be in good standing
Desired
Relevant Pharmacy Board Certification(s)
Equivalent combination of education and experience in business management
How this job compares
Set against the 11,246 open Pharmacist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Illinois median$98–172K/yr88 salary ranges
- Illinois median$61–82/hr248 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 353 open Pharmacist jobs in Illinois and 11,246 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- Walgreens133 open
- Walmart53 open
- CVS Health48 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — more than three in four Pharmacist postings that state a minimum ask for (median 1 year, across 3,863 postings).
- Education
- 6,557 of the 11,246 open Pharmacist jobs (58%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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