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Pharmacist

Kroger Family of Companies

Columbus, OHJob$60–69/hrSeen 4w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$60–69/hr
Location
Columbus, OH
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Current State Pharmacist LicensureBachelor's degree

Job overview

The Pharmacist fulfills prescription needs, administers vaccines, and provides patient counseling and pharmaceutical care. The role oversees pharmacy operations, including legal compliance, inventory, controlled substances, record keeping, equipment, and staff scheduling. It also focuses on customer service, maintaining a safe and clean pharmacy, and meeting department sales, profit, quality, and expense goals.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Customer ServicePrescription AccuracyVaccine AdministrationPatient CounselingPharmaceutical CarePharmacy Law ComplianceStress ManagementBasic MathOral CommunicationWritten CommunicationRetail ExperienceSecond Language

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in PharmacyCurrent State Pharmacist Licensure1 Year Retail Experience

Full job description

Create an outstanding customer experience and inspire associates to deliver excellent customer service. Establish and maintain a safe, clean environment that encourages our customers to return. Achieve sales and profit goals established for the department, control all established quality assurance standards and expenses and properly schedule and staff technicians to meet the needs of the business. Monitor all functions, duties and activities for the department. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety. RESPONSIBILITIES - Fulfill customers- prescription needs while concentrating on the accuracy of every prescription filled

  • Administer vaccines as needed

  • Provide patient counseling and pharmaceutical care to customers

  • Ensure pharmacies comply with all local, state and federal laws (including HIPAA)

  • Maintain a professional image through personal appearance, conduct and attitude and the physical condition of the pharmacy; adhere to pharmacy standards and enforce company dress standards

  • Achieve a thorough knowledge of the trade area, its customers and its competition

  • Create a positive pharmacy department image through strong service, friendliness and cooperativeness with customers, associates and outside vendors

  • Monitor stock replenishment, inventory levels, policies/procedures, record keeping, security, sanitation, scheduling, proper operation of all equipment, pricing, planograms, returns, budgets, reports to management, and product recalls per company policy

  • Maintain proper records, inventory and security on all scheduled drugs (i.e., controlled substances-narcotics)

  • Follow procedures for handling pharmacy products from authorized sources

  • Ensure all accuracy tools, including the accuracy scanner and 24-hour post dispensing audit report, are utilized appropriately

  • Establish/maintain all record keeping practices necessary for legal compliance, company policies, accounting policies and other requested reports

  • Maintain a clean, neat work area, including work counters, shelves, floors and the customer counter to present a professional, sanitary, organized image to customers

  • Ensure all product returns are handled in a timely fashion and per company policy

  • Maintain all equipment (e.g., computers, printers, accuracy scanners and cash registers) to ensure it remains in working condition

  • Maintain and organize all policy manuals, reference books, state laws and required equipment and verify that all staff is knowledgeable of their use

  • Maintain proper signage (e.g., store hours, counseling sign, services signs, pharmacists' photographs and names, and all other signs requested) in all areas necessary

  • Make a strong and continuous effort to broaden personal knowledge and pharmacy skills

  • Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

QUALIFICATIONS * Minimum *

Bachelors Degree pharmacy

Current state pharmacist licensure in good standing

Ability to handle stressful situations

Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition, and subtraction)

Effective oral/written communication skills

  • Desired *

1 year of retail experience

Second language (speaking, reading, and/or writing)

$60/hour - $69/hour per year

How this job compares

Set against the 11,223 open Pharmacist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$60–69/hr
  • Ohio median$60–76/hr299 hourly ranges
  • US median$60–79/hr7,566 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $64.50/hr, is 5% below the Ohio median midpoint ($68/hr) — in the middle half of Pharmacist hourly ranges in Ohio.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 552 open Pharmacist jobs in Ohio and 11,223 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Ohio
Experience
Pharmacist postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median (3,740 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 6,755 of the 11,223 open Pharmacist jobs (60%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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