About this opportunity
Children’s Colorado lists this Director of Pharmacy Ambulatory opportunity in aurora, Colorado. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
The Director of Pharmacy provides strategic and operational leadership for system-wide pharmacy services. This role oversees departmental operations including fiscal management, human resources, and quality improvement, ensuring safe, effective, and cost-efficient medication use in compliance with regulatory standards. Through cross-departmental collaboration, the Director drives continuous improvement, executes strategic initiatives, and optimizes the use of personnel, materials, and financial resources to support high-quality pharmaceutical care.
Leads pharmacy services across multiple sites, aligning departmental goals with the organization’s strategic vision and mission.
Serves as a key strategic advisor and partner to executive leadership, resolving escalations, and driving cultural and operational transformation.
Leads enterprise-wide communication strategies for pharmacy, ensuring timely, accurate, and transparent updates on strategic priorities, system initiatives, and emerging issues while cultivating strong partnerships with peers and executive leadership.
Provides director oversight for the development, performance, and succession planning of pharmacy leaders and staff, promoting a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and professional advancement.
Defines and governs departmental strategy, policies, and performance standards while leading system-wide quality, safety, and regulatory initiatives. Ensures optimized clinical services and operations, exemplary outcomes, and continuous compliance with all regulatory, accreditation, and organizational requirements (e.g., Joint Commission, CMS).
Provides system-level oversight for formulary governance, medication-use policy, and controlled substance management, ensuring robust stewardship and full compliance with all federal, state, local, and DEA regulations.
Champions interdisciplinary collaboration to advance clinical pharmacy practice, driving evidence-based, safe, and cost-effective medication therapy and optimizing patient outcomes across the continuum of care. Directs system-wide financial stewardship including budgeting, drug procurement, inventory management, revenue integrity processes to ensure sustainability and fiscal accountability.
Oversees the strategic planning, implementation, and optimization of pharmacy technologies and automation, evaluating emerging innovations to enhance reliability, safety, and performance. Provides leadership for complex program development and enterprise initiatives providing technical expertise and ensuring effective change management, and alignment with system strategy and compliance standards.
Drives uninterrupted continuity of pharmacy operations across a 24/7 care environment, establishing robust leadership coverage models, escalation pathways, and decision-making frameworks that support real-time issue resolution and maintain seamless service delivery at all times.
Guidelines
Guidelines are in the form of stated vision and goals for the operation.
Complexity
Work assignment is unstructured and leader is responsible for developing, directing, and managing outcomes and multi-year strategies in order to achieve the objectives of the operation. Duties performed include operational planning; developing standards, priorities, guidelines, processes, measurement (evaluation) systems; implementation of production and performance management standards; and allocating resources. Work is strategic and operational in nature.
Decision Making
Employee is responsible for managing multiple functions that requires developing and implementing strategies, business plans, and policies; determining required resources; defining and evaluating performance standards; and resolving complex business problems.
Communications
Communication at this level is internally and externally focused. Involves establishing and maintaining effective, collaborative working relationships with team members, peers, and executives. Provides information and negotiates solutions to functional issues that have major consequences or long-term significance.
Supervision Received
Responsible and accountable for driving strategy and achieving results for function(s). Work is reviewed for soundness of judgment and conclusions, fiscal accountability, and the attainment of goals and objectives of the operation.
Minimum Qualifications
Education
Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (BSPharm) or Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)
Experience
Five (5) years of experience as a pharmacist, plus three (3) years of leadership experience over a pharmacy service.
Equivalency
Completion of a Postgraduate Year One (PGY1) pharmacy residency is considered equivalent to two (2) years of professional pharmacy experience in a hospital setting.
Completion of a Postgraduate Year Two (PGY2) pharmacy residency is also considered equivalent to two (2) years of professional pharmacy experience, for a total of up to four (4) years when combined with PGY1.
Completion of a combined Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership (HSPAL) residency is considered equivalent to four (4) years of professional pharmacy experience.
Licensure(s)
Licensed pharmacist in the state of Colorado
Salary Information
Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.
Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $158,635.92 to $264,393.21
Benefits Information
Here, you matter.
base pay
incentives
paid time off
medical/dental/vision insurance
company provided life and disability insurance
paid parental leave
403b employer match (retirement savings)
a robust wellness program
access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career
annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance; if organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.
annual base pay increases based on performance over the previous year.
EEO Statement
It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation.
Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.
The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date.
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Worksite address
aurora, CO, 80012, US
Who can apply
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