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Certified Pharmacy Technician Lead

Walgreens

Catonsville, MDJob$19.25–26/hrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago

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Compensation
$19.25–26/hr
Location
Catonsville, MD
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Certified Pharmacy Technician Lead assists pharmacists under direct supervision with prescription processing, patient and drug information, inventory, and pharmacy workflow. The role also supports customer service and store operations, including cash handling, opening and closing, and maintaining store readiness. It coaches pharmacy technicians and cashiers when PTCB or ExCPT certified. The posting prefers retail experience, math and computer skills, inventory knowledge, and PTCB or ExCPT certification.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Customer ServicePrescription ProcessingMath SkillsComputer SkillsInventory Control

Qualifications

Fluent EnglishFlexible ScheduleSix Months Retail ExperiencePrior Walgreens ExperiencePTCB or ExCPT Certification

Full job description

Job Summary

In accordance with state and federal regulations, assists the pharmacist, under direct supervision, in the practice of pharmacy. Assists the pharmacist in the performance of other Pharmacy Department duties in accordance with Company policies and procedures. Responsible for using pharmacy systems to obtain patient and drug information and process prescriptions. If PTCB or Except certified, assists with and coaches pharmacy technicians in the operation of pharmacy systems and cashiers in the operation of the pharmacy cash registers. Models and delivers a distinctive and delightful customer experience. Opens and closes the store in the absence of store management, including all required systems start-ups, required cash handling, and ensuring the floor and stock room are ready for the business day. Responsible for opening back door of store for deliveries. Completes product returns, order voids, customer refunds, cash drops to the safe, and provides change as requested to cash registers.

Job Responsibilities

  • Customer Experience

  • Engages customers and patients by greeting them and offering assistance with products and services. Resolves customer issues and answers questions to ensure a positive customer experience.

  • Models and shares customer service best practices with all team members to deliver a distinctive and delightful customer experience, including interpersonal habits (example greeting, eye contact, courtesy, etc) and Walgreens service traits (for example, offering help proactively, identifying needs, servicing until satisfied, etc)

  • Develops strong relationships with most valuable customers.

  • Operations

  • Under the supervision by the pharmacist, assist in the practice of pharmacy, in accordance with state, federal, and company policy. Reviews and complies with the Walgreen Co Pharmacy Code of Conduct.

  • Responsible for holding store keys to open and close without management as necessary.

  • Maintains accurate inventory counts; maintains the accuracy of on hand quantities including, but not limited to, basic departments, stockroom, and overstock locations. Completes resets and revisions.

  • Responsible for basic department pricing and making daily price changes, ensures proper signage is displayed at the store to support accurate pricing of products. Ensures any additional pricing tasks related to local regulations and or regulatory compliance programs are completed accurately and within the required timeframe.

  • Assist with bookkeeping activities, including cash report, cash counts, ledgers, and bill payment as necessary or as requested.

  • Supports execution of Pickup program.

  • Assists with exterior and interior maintenance by ensuring clean, neat, orderly store condition and appearance, including requesting store or system repairs as required in manager absence, or as requested by manager.

  • Reports disciplinary issues and customer complaints to management.

  • Performs duties as assigned by Pharmacy Manager, Staff Pharmacist and Store Manager including utilizing pharmacy systems to enter patient and drug information, ensuring information is entered correctly, filling prescriptions by retrieving, counting and pouring pharmaceutical drugs, verifying medicine is correct, and checking for possible interactions.

  • Assists pharmacists in scheduling and maintaining workflow.

  • Reports, immediately, prescription errors to pharmacist on duty and adheres to Company policies and procedures in relation to pharmacy errors and the Quality Improvement Program.

  • Strictly adheres to the Walgreen Co policy regarding Good Faith Dispensing during all applicable prescription dispensing activities.

  • Responsible and accountable for registering all related sales on assigned cash register, collects and handles cash as required. Takes customer to OTC aisle when possible to assist in locating products.

  • Handles telephone calls that do not require personal attention of the pharmacist, including those to physicians.

  • Processes (corrects and resubmits) manual claims for third party program prescription services in a timely and efficient manner, and performs other clerical duties, as assigned by the Pharmacy Manager.

  • Assists and supports Pharmacy Department on inventory management activities, such as, ordering, unpacking, checking and storing shipment of pharmaceuticals. Maintains knowledge of Company asset protection techniques, and files claims for warehouse overages (merchandise received, but not billed), shortages (merchandise billed, but not received), order errors or damaged good involving Rx drugs.

Basic Qualifications

  • Must be fluent in reading, writing, and speaking English. (Except in Puerto Rico)

  • Requires willingness to work flexible schedule, including evening and weekend hours.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Prefer six months of experience in a retail environment.

  • Prefer to have prior work experience with Walgreens.

  • Prefer good math skills so they can fill prescriptions accurately, including counting, measuring and weighing medications.

  • Prefer good computer skills.

  • Prefer the knowledge of store inventory control.

  • Prefer PTCB or ExCPT certification

Salary Range: $19.25 - $26 / Hourly

How this job compares

Set against the 13,553 open Pharmacy Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$19.25–26/hr
  • Maryland median$17–27/hr180 hourly ranges
  • US median$18–27/hr10,771 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $22.63/hr, is close to the Maryland median midpoint ($22/hr) — in the middle half of Pharmacy Technician hourly ranges in Maryland.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 190 open Pharmacy Technician jobs in Maryland and 13,553 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Maryland
Experience
Pharmacy Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median (2,619 postings).
Education
201 of the 13,553 open Pharmacy Technician jobs (1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 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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