Founding Pharmacist-in-Charge & Head of Pharmacy Operations

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Founding Pharmacist-in-Charge & Head of Pharmacy Operations

Location: Greater St. Louis / St. Charles County, Missouri

Employment Type: Full-Time, On-Site

Compensation: $225,000+ Base Salary, Performance Bonus, and Equity and Profit-Sharing Opportunity

Work directly alongside the founders to build one of the country's premier sterile compounding pharmacy organizations.

Build Something That Matters

Most Pharmacist-in-Charge positions ask you to maintain an existing pharmacy.

This one asks you to build one.

BrightMeds is creating a next-generation 503A sterile compounding pharmacy designed around one central belief:

Patients deserve exceptional quality, uncompromising safety, and affordable access to important therapies.

We are looking for a pharmacist who wants more than another management position.

We are looking for a builder-someone who wants to design the systems, develop the team, establish the quality standards, and create the operational foundation of a pharmacy organization capable of serving patients nationwide.

This is a rare opportunity to become BrightMeds' Founding Pharmacist-in-Charge and Head of Pharmacy Operations.

Your work will influence nearly everything we build.

Why BrightMeds Is Different

BrightMeds is a founder-led healthcare company focused on making high-quality healthcare more accessible through technology, innovation, and operational excellence.

We are not controlled by outside institutional investors demanding short-term decisions. Our principal owners remain actively involved in the company and can make decisions based on patient care, quality, and long-term value.

One of our greatest strengths is our speed of implementation.

We make decisions quickly, execute quickly, learn quickly, and continuously improve. However, we do not confuse speed with recklessness.

Our operating philosophy is simple:

Move quickly. Build correctly. Continuously improve. Never compromise patient safety or quality.

We want this to be an environment where talented people enjoy coming to work because they are creating something meaningful with colleagues they respect.

What Is Already in Place

This is not an idea waiting for funding.

BrightMeds already has:

An established and growing telehealth company

Existing patient demand

An active physician network

Systems supporting patient communication and pharmacy fulfillment

Technology, customer-support, and operational teams

The ability to acquire and serve additional patients

Ownership capital committed to launching the pharmacy

Two experienced consultants currently supporting the project

Multiple potential pharmacy locations under evaluation

Multiple cleanroom companies under consideration

A clear objective to begin serving patients as soon as the facility, team, and quality systems are ready

You will join while important decisions are still being made.

You will help make them rather than inherit them.

What You Will Build

You will serve as the clinical, regulatory, quality, and operational leader responsible for helping design, launch, and scale the pharmacy.

Your responsibilities will include:

Pharmacy Launch and Leadership Serve as Pharmacist-in-Charge in accordance with Missouri requirements.

Help evaluate pharmacy locations, cleanroom partners, equipment, vendors, and facility plans.

Lead the pharmacy from development and licensing through inspection readiness and launch.

Recruit, hire, mentor, and develop pharmacists, technicians, and pharmacy personnel.

Build a culture centered on patient safety, accountability, integrity, speed, and continuous improvement.

Work directly with the founders, consultants, technology team, and other company leaders.

Take ownership of pharmacy outcomes without requiring heavy day-to-day management.

Sterile Compounding and Quality

Lead sterile compounding operations in accordance with USP and applicable USP requirements.

Develop and maintain standard operating procedures and a scalable Quality Management System.

Establish personnel training, qualification, and competency programs.

Oversee aseptic technique, environmental monitoring, cleaning, disinfecting, sterility assurance, and contamination-control programs.

Establish systems for deviations, investigations, corrective and preventive actions, change control, recalls, and continuous quality improvement.

Maintain inspection readiness at all times.

Create release and quality-review standards that protect patients as the operation scales.

Operations and Technology

Design safe, efficient, and scalable pharmacy workflows.

Develop production, staffing, inventory, purchasing, and capacity plans.

Establish quality and operational performance dashboards.

Identify bottlenecks and improve processes without compromising quality.

Partner with BrightMeds' in-house technology team to develop pharmacy systems and custom software.

Help create technology that is faster, more useful, and more efficient than many traditional pharmacy platforms.

Build repeatable systems that can eventually be used across additional BrightMeds pharmacy locations.

Regulatory and National Expansion

Maintain compliance with Missouri Board of Pharmacy requirements and applicable federal requirements.

Lead preparation for inspections, audits, and regulatory reviews.

Monitor regulatory changes and implement necessary operational updates.

Develop and execute a multi-state nonresident pharmacy licensing strategy.

Obtain additional pharmacist licenses when reasonably necessary to support company expansion.

Help recruit and develop pharmacists who can obtain licenses and serve as responsible pharmacy leaders in additional states or locations.

Establish the systems, documentation, and operating model required to serve patients across the country responsibly.

Help plan and launch future BrightMeds pharmacy facilities as the company expands.

Meaningful Decision-Making Authority

This is not a figurehead PIC role.

You will have meaningful authority and influence over:

Pharmacy design and cleanroom operations

Quality systems

Sterile compounding procedures

Pharmacy staffing and team development

Workflow and technology design

Vendor and equipment recommendations

Regulatory readiness

Production ramp-up

Operational improvement

Patient-safety decisions

If patient safety, regulatory compliance, or professional responsibility requires delaying production, rejecting a preparation, or temporarily restricting operations, you will have the founders' support.

No revenue goal or launch deadline will override patient safety, regulatory compliance, or your lawful professional judgment.

The Kind of Person Who Thrives Here

You will probably enjoy this role if you: Think and act like an owner.

Take responsibility without needing to be chased.

Are exceptionally reliable.

Get important work completed.

Move quickly while maintaining precision.

Hold yourself to a high standard even when no one is watching.

Enjoy complexity, regulation, and detailed systems.

Love turning complicated processes into repeatable, scalable operations.

Anticipate problems and solve them before they become emergencies.

Communicate directly, respectfully, and honestly.

Enjoy working with ambitious people.

Bring positive energy and are enjoyable to work with.

Want the pharmacy to be better after every week, month, and year.

We are not looking for someone who thinks exactly like the founders.

We want someone who shares our values while complementing our strengths.

You should be willing to challenge us respectfully, particularly when quality, compliance, or patient safety is involved. We expect you to be more knowledgeable than the founders about pharmacy operations, sterile compounding, and pharmacy regulation.

We will support your leadership rather than attempt to do your job for you.

Required Qualifications PharmD, BSPharm, or equivalent degree from an accredited school or college of pharmacy

Active, unrestricted Missouri pharmacist license, or ability to obtain one before beginning employment

Eligibility to serve as Pharmacist-in-Charge in Missouri

Previous PIC or comparable accountable pharmacy-leadership experience

Extensive sterile compounding experience

Strong working knowledge of USP and applicable USP requirements

Experience preparing for pharmacy inspections or regulatory audits

Experience developing or operating quality systems

Strong leadership and communication skills

Demonstrated ability to recruit, lead, and develop high-performing teams

Highly Valued Experience

Launching or substantially building a 503A sterile compounding pharmacy

Cleanroom planning, commissioning, or operational design

Missouri Class H pharmacy experience

Board Certified Sterile Compounding Pharmacist certification

Multi-state nonresident pharmacy licensing

Holding pharmacist licenses in multiple states

Pharmacy startup experience

Quality Management System implementation

Scaling sterile production

Process improvement, automation, or custom technology implementation

Financial planning, labor modeling, budgeting, or pharmacy P&L responsibility

Experience helping launch multiple pharmacy locations

First-Year Priorities

During your first year, you will help:

Select and finalize the initial pharmacy location and cleanroom solution

Complete licensing and inspection-readiness requirements

Establish the pharmacy's SOP and Quality Management System infrastructure

Recruit and qualify the founding pharmacy team

Select or help develop critical technology and operating systems

Launch through a controlled, quality-led production ramp

Establish meaningful quality, staffing, production, and operational metrics

Begin implementing the multi-state licensing road map

Build the foundation for additional BrightMeds pharmacy locations

Create an operation capable of supporting long-term national growth

Long-Term Opportunity

We believe exceptional people should share in the value they help create.

This position includes:

$225,000+ base salary

Performance-based annual bonus

Long-term equity and profit-sharing opportunity

Increasing leadership responsibility as BrightMeds expands

A potential path toward senior enterprise pharmacy leadership

Potential future partnership consideration for an exceptional leader who consistently creates value and becomes integral to the company's long-term success

We are hiring a long-term builder-not simply filling a position.

Our Commitment to You

We do not micromanage capable leaders.

We will provide access to committed capital, consultants, technology resources, active patient demand, founder involvement, and rapid executive decision-making.

We will listen when you identify a need involving staffing, equipment, quality, compliance, or patient safety.

We will move quickly when the right decision is clear.

In return, we expect ownership, reliability, professional judgment, honest communication, and measurable results.

Let's Build It

You could join an established pharmacy and maintain systems someone else designed.

Or you could help create the pharmacy, systems, team, technology, and culture that others will eventually follow.

If you want to build something you will still be proud of twenty years from now, we would like to meet you.

Who can apply

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