Founding PharmacistinCharge Head of Pharmacy Operations

Brightmeds; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 225,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Equity & profit sharing

Job summary

BrightMeds seeks a Founding Pharmacist-in-Charge and Head of Pharmacy Operations to design, launch, and scale a next-generation sterile compounding pharmacy. You will lead regulatory readiness, quality systems, and nationwide expansion, while building the initial team and partnerships.

You will work directly with founders to establish staffing, technology, and SOPs, shaping operations from day one and ensuring patient safety and compliant growth across states.

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 <797> and applicable USP <800> 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

Responsibilities

• Serve as Pharmacist-in-Charge in Missouri requirements.
• 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.
• Lead sterile compounding operations in accordance with USP <797> and USP <800>.
• Develop and maintain SOPs 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.

Skills

Leadership

Regulatory knowledge

Sterile compounding

Quality systems

Pharmacist-in-Charge

Education

PharmD or equivalent

Job description

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 <797> and applicable USP <800> 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 <797> and applicable USP <800> 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.