CareerPharm®

Register for the 2025 Personnel Placement Service (PPS) to request an interview.

Details

Posted: 28-Oct-25

Location: Los Angeles, California

Type: Full Time

Salary: $176,000 - $257,000

Categories:

Clinical Pharmacist

Pharmacy

Job Setting:

Hospital/Institutional

Requirements:

Residency Required

Specialty Practice Areas:

Ambulatory Care

Drug Information

Salary Details:

Relocation provided

Additional Information:

Hybrid/Remote is allowed.

Employer will assist with relocation costs.

NOTE: This listing is for 2 pharmacy program coordinator opportunities at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Please specify which position(s) you are interested in when using the PPS messaging function or email HR Recruiter at Rod.Davido@cshs.org for the position(s) you are interested. 

Specialty Business Operations Coordinator

The Specialty Pharmacist Coordinator at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA is responsible for leading excellence for our growing specialty pharmacy program. The Specialty Pharmacy Coordinator is responsible for the development, and implementation of pharmacy services that advance clinical, operational, financial, safety, and regulatory performance, with a specific focus on specialty pharmacy and ambulatory pharmacy analytics and reporting. Under the direction of the Pharmacy Manager, the coordinator applies data-driven methodologies to improve specialty pharmacy operations and monitor payer formulary and access changes. This position ensures compliance with accreditation standards and serves as a bridge between clinical pharmacy practice and enterprise business objectives to improve patient access and sustainable program development. In addition, responsibilities include identifying prescribing trends, monitoring specialty pharmacy capture rates and growth opportunities, performing analytics and financial reporting (including revenue and cost-savings analyses), overseeing billing for pharmacist services, monitoring quality and safety outcomes, engaging with external stakeholders regarding payer and limited distribution drug access, and managing data reporting to third parties such as accreditation bodies, drug manufacturers, payers, and contract pharmacies.

Educational Requirements:

• Graduate Degree - Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy – Minimum.
• Post Graduate Year PGY1 and/or PGY2 residency or Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership residency.

Licenses and Certifications:

• California Pharmacist license.

What Else Are We Looking For?

• Minimum of 2-year experience in outpatient pharmacy setting; specialty pharmacy experience preferred.
• Previous experience in Specialty or Outpatient Pharmacy business operations, financial analytics and reporting preferred
• Patient Experience: Possesses excellent patient service skills prioritizing patient care needs to support safe effective medication use.
• Team Skills: Collaborates effectively with internal teams and stakeholders to achieve program goals.
• Business Development: Demonstrates understanding of importance of identifying opportunities to grow the specialty pharmacy.
• Analytical: Apply critical thinking to analyze and interpret information and/or data. Ability to analyze qualitative and quantitative information for decision support.
• Analytical: Demonstrates good decision-making/problem solving skills. Exhibits good clinical reasoning skills and judgments in managing patients with the highest medical complexity/acuity.
• Communication: Ability to convey and/or receive written/verbal information to/from various audiences in different formats. Communicates effectively and engages in positive inter/intra departmental interaction with peers, physicians, staff and patients.
• Project Management: Initiate, plan, design, implement, and monitor project(s) Ability to manage projects, establish timeliness, analyze data relevant to areas of responsibility. Ability to function independently, ability to plan, organize, direct, monitor and evaluate assigned work.
• Budgetary & Financial: Possesses fiscal management skills and proven track record to prepare, monitor and control budgetary expenses and generate revenue.
• Regulatory: Ability to interpret and apply knowledge of State, Federal and Agency standards to comply with regulations.
• Technical: Ability to learn and adapt to the use of software, technology, and automated information systems in daily practice.

Drug Use Policy Coordinator

The Drug Use Policy (DUP) Pharmacist Coordinator plays a key role in shaping medication policies, optimizing drug therapies, and ensuring safe and effective patient care at Cedars-Sinai.  The DUP pharmacist is involved in developing content for Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee; initiatives may include evaluating new drugs for formulary, developing evidence-based guidelines in conjunction with medical staff, and strategic planning of policies/processes for improving efficiency.  Additionally, the DUP team serves as gatekeepers for high cost/risk medications and drug information resource for medical, nursing, and pharmacy staff on complex therapeutic issues.  

This position has a flexible hybrid opportunity (up to 50% remote) and inpatient staffing (1 weekend per month) requirement.

Educational Requirements:

• Pharm.D. degree from an accredited School of Pharmacy in the USA
• Completion of a PGY1 residency or equivalent practice experience. PGY2 in Drug Use Policy or Drug Information is preferred

License/Certification/Registration Requirements:

• Current pharmacist licensure in the State of California.
• BLS certification upon hire

What else are we looking for?

• Maintains an excellent clinical database and critical thinking skills, including the ability to provide recommendations on the management of complex patients, utilizing organizational policies and evidence-based medicine.
• Possesses experience in drug information services and formulary development.
• Exhibits excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrates the ability to work collaboratively with other healthcare disciplines to define and implement new clinical guidelines, workflows or programs
• Exhibits capability to teach and serve as preceptor for pharmacy students and residents.
• Demonstrates ability to prioritize projects to meet goals.
• Possesses ability to evaluate implications for the use of automated information systems with the development of clinical initiatives.

About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Since its beginning in 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the healthcare needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, continually setting new standards for quality and innovation in patient care, research, teaching and community service.Today, Cedars-Sinai is widely known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients.Cedars-Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the U.S., with 915 licensed beds, 2,993 physicians, 4,700+ nurses and thousands of other healthcare professionals and staff. Clinical programs range from primary care for preventing, diagnosing and treating common conditions to specialized treatments for rare, complex and advanced illnesses. In addition, Cedars-Sinai serves the community through its Medical Network, which includes the highly rated Cedars-Sinai Medical Group and Cedars-Sinai Health Associates.Cedars-Sinai receives consistent recognition for our excellence. Our awards include; being named to the Honor Roll for the eighth consecutive year in U.S. News & World Report, receiving the National Research Corporation’s Consumer Choice Award 20th year in a row for providing the highest-qual...ity medical care in Los Angeles, and achieving the longest-running Magnet designation for nursing excellence in California.Cedars-Sinai is a leader in the clinical care and research of heart disease, cancer and brain disorders, among other areas. Pioneering research achievements include using cardiac stem cells to repair damaged hearts, developing minimally invasive surgical techniques and discovering new types of drugs to target cancer more precisely.Cedars-Sinai also impacts the future of healthcare through education programs that encompass everything from highly competitive medical residency and fellowship programs to a biomedical science and translational medicine PhD program, advanced training for nurses and educational opportunities for allied health professionals. Most notably, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a longstanding commitment to strengthening the Los Angeles community through wide-ranging programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.

Show more

Show less

Connections working at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center