Pharmacy Consultant

Role Overview

• Collaborate with customer cross-functional teams to design, configure and validate drug libraries associated with smart infusion pumps with DERS, ensuring optimal functionality and alignment with clinical workflows.
• Oversee end-to-end drug library development for smart infusion pump implementations.
• Collaborate with customer pharmacy leadership to standardize medication concentrations, dosing limits, and infusion parameters aligned with institutional policies and evidence-based practice.
• Co-lead multidisciplinary drug library review sessions.
• Recommend drug library governance model development and long-term maintenance strategies.
• Partner with cross-functional teams, including Nursing, Project Management, IT, and operational stakeholders, to ensure seamless project execution and adherence to timelines.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key client stakeholders, addressing challenges, and providing expert guidance to achieve client satisfaction and project goals.
• Provide insights and recommendations on medication safety practices and infusion pump programming to enhance patient safety and outcomes.
• Lead advanced training sessions for pharmacy and clinical staff, ensuring effective adoption and utilization of the safety software and infusion pumps.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex clinical issues during implementations, leveraging expertise to minimize disruptions.
• Identify opportunities to refine implementation processes and tools, contributing to the development of best practices for the organization.
• Provide regular updates to internal and external stakeholders, highlighting project status, risks, and resolutions.
• Aptitude to evaluate professional literature and understand the application of statistics.
• Possess strong communication, organizational, critical thinking and collaborative skills. They must be self-learners and possess the ability to teach others.
• Understand healthcare trends and healthcare improvement initiatives and articulate the role that ICU Medical solutions play within those initiatives.
• Ability to effectively present to groups of clinicians and possess the professional acumen to interact effectively with senior hospital clinical leadership.
• Collaborate with R&D and Upstream Marketing teams as implementation subject matter expert during the new product development lifecycle.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Bachelor’s or Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree required; advanced certifications in medication safety or informatics preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in pharmacy operations, with at least 2 years in a consulting or implementation role involving infusion pumps and safety software.
• Must have an active Pharmacy license in at least one state in the U.S.
• Hospital pharmacy management/clinical supervisory position or clinical consulting desired
• Acute care hospital and/ or clinical experience preferred. Experience in the field of pharmacy informatics is highly desirable.

Benefits

• Travel 20-50% of the time