Superintendent Pharmacist

Zest Business Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pharmacy organization in the UK is seeking a Superintendent Pharmacist to oversee multiple pharmacies. The role involves managing a large team, ensuring regulatory compliance, and driving operational efficiency. The ideal candidate will have extensive pharmacy experience, a commercial focus, and a commitment to quality assurance. This position offers the chance to significantly impact the growth and direction of the business.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a senior position managing large teams.
• Desire for continual improvement and operational focus.
• Understand process analysis and data interrogation.

Responsibilities

• Full responsibility for multiple pharmacies.
• Foster team spirit and engagement within the team.
• Improve efficiency and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Manage pharmacy processes and oversee quality assurance.
• Train team members for compliance and competence.

Skills

Leadership experience

Commercial focus

Team management

Operational management

Regulatory compliance

Education

Qualified UK pharmacist

Job description

• Rapidly growing organisation
• Operational and strategic input
• Real growth potential

Zest Scientific is working on behalf of a leading player in the pharmacy space, and we are looking to identify a Superintendent Pharmacist with extensive leadership experience and a commercial focus to help drive business performance and scale company operations.

This is an exciting opportunity to help grow a rapidly expanding company and have real input into the direction of the business.

Candidate

• Be a qualified UK pharmacist with extensive experience in a senior position, managing large teams and overseeing operational activities within private practice or the NHS.
• Have a desire for continual improvement, driving change, raising standards and seeking information.
• Be commercially focused with a desire to grow the business while overseeing operations.
• Be operationally focused and understand process analysis, data interrogation and using data for behavioural change.

Role

• Full responsibility for a number of pharmacies.
• Team management of a large team, fostering team spirit, engagement, passion for purpose and a culture of delivering for patients.
• Operations management, with a focus on using available levers to improve efficiency, quality and delivery.
• Regulatory compliance, risk management, maintaining and developing SOPs, preparing for inspections, managing internal audits.
• Management of pharmacy processes, including all fundamental operations and processes.
• Oversight and administration of the WDA, in conjunction with the outsourced Responsible Person.
• Quality assurance and control, including optimising processes, setting and driving high standards, meeting SLAs.
• Ensuring all team members and customer‑facing staff have appropriate training to maintain compliance and competence.
• Keep up‑to‑date with regulations, market demands and trends, competitors, ingredients and products.
• Understand the supply chain and hold suppliers to high quality standards.
• Ensure that stock is appropriately managed and outages are avoided wherever possible.
• Oversee the implementation of new products, ensuring that team members are fully trained in the formulation.