Program Manager (Pharmacy Solutions)

Government of Nova Scotia; Halifax; On-site; CAD 102,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

Government of Nova Scotia seeks a Program Manager, Pharmacy Solutions to lead the Pharmacy Solutions portfolio across the province. You will guide priorities, governance, and modernization of digital health services, working with partners to ensure reliable, user-focused solutions and strong risk management.

Reporting to the Director of Digital Health Solutions, you will manage a team, coordinate with health system stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement in medication management and

Qualifications

• Degree in Pharmacy, Health Informatics, or related field with substantial experience.
• Experience leading healthcare programs, services, teams, or digital health initiatives.
• Ability to set priorities, govern, and manage budgets, contracts, procurement, and vendor management.
• Strong communication, relationship-building, and influencing skills with internal and external partners.
• Experience navigating public sector, health system, or multi-partner environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for the Pharmacy Solutions portfolio, including DIS and digital health initiatives.
• Set portfolio direction, priorities, and governance expectations.
• Oversee service planning, modernization, and continuous improvement of digital health services.
• Lead and coach a team to deliver program objectives and high-quality service.
• Build relationships with partners across government, health system organizations, and vendors.

Skills

Healthcare leadership

Digital health

Program management

Stakeholder influence

Communication

Education

Pharmacy degree

Health Informatics

Tools

OPOR

EMRs

Panorama

CanImmunize

SHARE

OPOR Provider Portal

Job description

Competition # : 49802

Department: Health and Wellness

Location: HALIFAX

Type of Employment: Permanent

Union Status: Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG

Closing Date: 22-Sep-26 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

About Us

The Department of Health and Wellness offers opportunities to grow and advance in a dynamic sector that touches the lives of all Nova Scotians. Along with our partners, including the Nova Scotia Health Authority and the IWK Health Centre, we're committed to continually improving our health care system.

With a focus on collaborative primary health care, continuing care, improved supports for mental health and addictions, digital health, capital infrastructure, and more, the department is thinking differently about how to plan, fund, legislate and monitor to improve access and service delivery. To do this, we need leaders at all levels of the organization who embrace a challenge and believe in their ability to make a difference.

About Our Opportunity

The Program Manager, Pharmacy Solutions provides leadership for Nova Scotia’s Pharmacy Solutions portfolio, including the provincial Drug Information System (DIS) and related digital health initiatives. This role offers an opportunity to support the continued evolution of pharmacy-related digital health services that improve medication management, strengthen provider workflows, and advance health system priorities.

Reporting to the Director, Digital Health Solutions, you will lead a team responsible for the operation, sustainment, improvement, and modernization of pharmacy solutions across the province. You will set direction for the portfolio, guide priorities, support good governance, and work with partners to ensure services remain reliable, user-focused, and aligned with health system needs.

As the departmental lead for Pharmacy Solutions, you will bring a strong understanding of pharmacy practice, medication management, and digital health service delivery to support sound decisions, strong relationships, effective risk management, and continuous improvement.

Primary Accountabilities

• Provide leadership for the Pharmacy Solutions portfolio, including DIS and related digital health initiatives.
• Set portfolio direction, priorities, and governance expectations in alignment with departmental and health system priorities.
• Oversee service planning, modernization, and continuous improvement to support reliable, user-focused digital health services.
• Lead, coach, and support a team of professionals to deliver program objectives and high-quality service.
• Build effective relationships with partners across government, health system organizations, professional groups, healthcare providers, and vendors.
• Communicate clearly with senior leaders and partners to support shared understanding, alignment, and decision‑making.
• Use evidence, user feedback, and program data to guide priorities and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Identify, manage, and escalation key risks related to patient safety, service delivery, privacy, security, timelines, budget, and benefits realization.
• Manage vendor relationships, contracts, financial resources, procurement activities, and related approvals for the portfolio.

Qualifications And Experience

You have a degree in a relevant discipline such as Pharmacy, Health Informatics, or a related field, plus significant relevant experience. An equivalent combination of training, education, and experience will be considered.

You have experience leading healthcare programs, services, teams, or digital health initiatives and can demonstrate:

• Leadership experience in healthcare, digital health, service delivery, or program management.
• Experience leading teams, setting priorities, and supporting staff development.
• Strong communication, relationship‑building, and influencing skills with internal and external partners.
• Experience with planning, governance, service improvement, budgets, contracts, procurement, or vendor management.
• Experience leading change and navigating complexity in a public sector, health system, or multi‑partner environment.
• Understanding of risk management, privacy, security, continuous improvement, and benefits evaluation.

Experience with pharmacy practice, medication management, digital health, or health information systems is important to this role.

Experience with related systems, such as One Person One Record (OPOR), electronic medical records (EMRs), public health information systems (Panorama, CanImmunize), clinical repositories (SHARE, OPOR Provider Portal), health information exchanges, registries, or provincial reporting/data platforms, would be considered an asset. Familiarity or experience with health information standards, clinical terminology, interoperability, software development, data quality, analytics, or system integration would also be valuable.

We will assess the above qualifications and experience using tools such as assessments, presentations, interviews, reference checks, etc.

Equivalency

An equivalent combination of training, education and experience will be considered. Applicants relying on education and experience equivalencies must demonstrate such equivalencies in their application.

Benefits

Based on the employment status, the Government of Nova Scotia offers its employees a wide range of benefits such as a Defined Benefit Pension Plan, Health, Dental, Life Insurance, General illness, Short and Long Term Disability, Vacation and Employee and Family Assistance Programs. For information on all our Benefit program offerings, click here: Benefits for government employees.

Working Conditions

This role operates in a dynamic, fast‑paced environment with competing priorities and complex challenges. The position is primarily office‑based, with occasional travel and site visits as required.

What We Offer

• Career development where you have access to career guidance, tools, resources, and ongoing training for every stage of your career
• Engaging workplace: our employees feel valued, respected, connected, and tuned in, we have forward‑thinking policies and strategies
• Countless career paths
• A dynamic, client‑focused office environment where service excellence and teamwork are our focus.

Pay Grade

EC 12

Salary Range

$3,929.22 - $4,911.52 Bi-Weekly

Employment Equity Statement

Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens we serve. The Government of Nova Scotia has an Employment Equity Policy, and we welcome applications from Indigenous People, African Nova Scotians, Persons of African Descent, Racialized Persons, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ Persons and Women in occupations or positions where they are under-represented. If you are a member of one of these equity groups, you are encouraged to self‑identify on your electronic application.

Accommodation Statement

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Candidates may request accommodations based on any grounds protected by the Human Rights Act. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process, please contact us at [e-mail].

Current government employees may access this posting through the link below:

PLEASE NOTE: Candidates will not be considered for an interview if applications are incomplete or are missing information.

All questions and concerns may be directed to [e-mail].