Assistant Director of Pharmacy

The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD in Houston, TX seeks an Assistant Director of Pharmacy Programs to provide enterprise-level strategic leadership, oversight, and performance accountability for Pharmacy Operations. The role plans, organizes, and directs all pharmacy services while ensuring regulatory compliance and robust revenue management across inpatient and ambulatory settings.

You will drive safety, quality, and fiscal integrity, collaborating with executive leadership to align

Qualifications

• Requires PharmD and ACPE-accredited degree.
• Minimum 2 years in community/clinic pharmacy.
• At least 3 years in pharmacy financial reporting and revenue cycle.
• Prior management experience required.
• Hospital or health system pharmacy experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide enterprise-level leadership for pharmacy programs and operations.
• Ensure regulatory compliance and accreditation readiness across sites.
• Collaborate with revenue cycle, finance, and compliance to optimize billing and reduce denials.
• Lead formulary and governance processes to support patient care and fiscal accountability.
• Supervise staff performance, development, and succession planning.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Budgeting and finance

Revenue cycle

Regulatory compliance

Staff development

Education

PharmD

ACPE-accredited School of Pharmacy

Tools

Excel

Pivot tables

SQL databases

Job description

Position Summary

We are seeking an Assistant Director of Pharmacy Programs to provide enterprise-level strategic leadership, operational oversight, and performance accountability for The Harris Center's Pharmacy Operations. This position will plan, organize, and direct all functions of the Harris Center Pharmacy services. The incumbent will ensure all legal, regulatory, and accrediting requirements are maintained, and will ensure all pharmacy revenue management and pharmacy budgets are tracking through the system properly as well. The Assistant Director of Pharmacy is responsible for ensuring optimal revenue capture, integrity, and reliability for technical and professional based billing systems in both inpatient and ambulatory pharmacy areas and other clinical areas as assigned.

This position ensures pharmacy services are safe, efficient, compliant, financially sustainable, patient-centered, and aligned with organizational priorities, clinical transformation goals, and executive leadership expectations.

Essential Job Functions

• Work with and support Director of Pharmacy Programs to set the strategic direction and ensures that each pharmacy of the assigned district achieves budgeted profit, unit cost, bed retention and other goals
• Oversee daily operations of pharmacy programs, processes for drug recalls, monthly medication area inspections and having supporting documentation.
• Will participate in Harris Center committee meetings necessary to enhance practice and patient care.
• Address actionable items from Accreditation Bodies and regulatory agencies standards related to pharmacy.
• Collaborate with sites, managed care, finance, compliance and other areas of the revenue cycle to decrease denials, ensure optimal clean claim rates and ensure compliant billing practices.
• Will partner with other areas that have an indirect impact on charge integrity including but not limited to coding, health information management, and utilization management.
• Support process for medication charges, and that they are accurately and timely posted to accounts.
• Leads charging and revenue related projects, workflow changes, review areas of risk, assess financial impact of changes and outline workflow procedures.
• Conducts staff meetings as appropriate and requested by director.
• Perform special projects as requested.
• Maintain and/or cover as Pharmacist In Charge and/or pharmacist as defined by pharmacy structure and resource needs.
• Other related duties and work scheduled as assigned to assure continuity of service within The Harris Center.
• Establishes, monitors, and continuously improves pharmacy quality assurance, medication safety, drug utilization evaluation, customer satisfaction, medication error tracking, corrective action planning, and performance improvement systems.
• Leads and supports the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and related medication governance processes to ensure formulary decisions, clinical standards, utilization practices, and medication safety initiatives meet patient needs while maintaining fiscal accountability.
• Provides senior-level leadership for the pharmacy workforce, including organizational structure, talent development, succession planning, recruitment, retention, performance management, coaching, recognition, and corrective action in accordance with TSBP rules, applicable regulations, and The Harris Center policies.

Requirements

• PharmD, Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy required. Pharmacy degree from School of Pharmacy accredited by ACPE required.
• 2 years related community/clinic pharmacy experience.
• 3 years of pharmacy financial reporting and revenue cycle experience is required.
• Prior management experience required.
• Hospital or health system pharmacy experience preferred.

Other

• Ability to work varied hours as needed.
• Conducts all activities with the highest standards of professionalism and confidentiality.
• Knowledgeable in regulatory compliance issues related to Medication management.
• Extensive data analysis and navigation of reports using spreadsheets, databases, pivot tables including financial information, pharmacy claims data and other pharmacy or medication related reporting.
• Ability to develop, implement and lead all aspects of pharmacy operation.
• Complies with all applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures, supporting the organization's corporate integrity efforts by acting in an ethical and appropriate manner, reporting known or suspected violation of applicable rules, and cooperating fully with all organizational investigations and proceedings.