Director Pharmacy
Folsom, CAJob$83.99–124.94/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
The Director of Pharmacy oversees and coordinates daily Pharmacy Services operations at Mercy Hospital Folsom, ensuring alignment with professional standards, organizational policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements. The role manages financial objectives, implements performance improvement initiatives, evaluates clinical and service effectiveness, and troubleshoots pharmaceutical care issues. It also requires judgment and critical thinking in resolving complex issues and applying leadership, human relations, and continuous quality improvement principles.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Director of Pharmacy for Mercy Hospital Folsom, you will be responsible for the oversight and coordination of daily Pharmacy Services operations in accordance with standards of practice, organizational policies/standards, procedures and applicable regulatory requirements.
In this position, you will be tasked with meeting financial objectives in labor, revenue and gross margins, implementing performance improvement initiatives, evaluating department effectiveness in meeting clinical/service expectations, and troubleshooting pharmaceutical care issues. The work you will do will require knowledge of the concepts, professional standards, and methodologies applicable to the pharmaceutical care, and of applicable regulatory requirements sufficient to ensure quality and compliant patient care.
To be successful in this role, you will need to exercise judgment and critical thinking in resolving complex issues, and apply solid principles of leadership, human relations and continuous quality improvement in the overall management, coordination, and refinement of our pharmaceutical care services.
Additional incentives for this position include an annual performance-based bonus program, annual employer-funded retirement contribution (no employee contribution required), no-cost medical coverage for the employee, and a Flexible Time Away program.
Job Requirements
Required
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Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, or Doctor of Pharmacy
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Minimum of four (4) years of recent pharmacy (or similar) work experience.
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Active Registered Pharmacist license in the State of California.
Preferred
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Minimum of two (2) years in a leadership position.
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Pharmacy residency completed.
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Masters Degree (MBA, MS, MHA, etc).
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Membership in the ASHP, ASCP, APHA and/or other professional associations.
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Where You'll Work
Founded in 1989, Dignity Health - Mercy Hospital is a 106-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Folsom, California. Serving over 60,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, cancer care, women’s health, and neurology. Additionally, Mercy Hospital of Folsom has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and has been awarded the AMA/ASA’s Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement, recognizing the hospital’s commitment to providing the best stroke care. It was recently named a Leapfrog 2025 Top General Hospital.
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Pay Range
$83.99 - $124.94 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 11,196 open Pharmacist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$83.99–124.94/hr
- California median$67–82/hr356 hourly ranges
- US median$60–79/hr7,531 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $104.47/hr, is 40% above the California median midpoint ($75/hr) — in the top quarter of Pharmacist hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 439 open Pharmacist jobs in California and 11,196 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- CVS Health114 open
- Walgreens107 open
- Kaiser Permanente28 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — more than three in four Pharmacist postings that state a minimum ask for (median 1 year, across 3,842 postings).
- Education
- 6,661 of the 11,196 open Pharmacist jobs (59%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 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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