VP, Pharmacy & HME -Johns Hopkins Care at Home

The Position
The Vice President is responsible for providing strategic leadership, direction, and oversight of post-acute pharmacy and Home Medical Equipment (HME) services. This role ensures the delivery of safe, high-quality, efficient, and compliant pharmacy and HME operations across the continuum of care, including home, ambulatory, outpatient, specialty, and infusion services. The incumbent collaborates with executives, physicians, clinical, operational, and academic leaders to advance organizational goals, standardize pharmacy and HME practices, optimize resource utilization, promote medication safety and quality outcomes, support regulatory compliance, and drive innovation and operational excellence throughout the pharmacy and HME programs.

Reporting Relationships
Position reports directly to the president of Johns Hopkins Care at Home and will supervise

1. Director, Specialty Pharmacy and Residency Program
2. Director, Community Pharmacies
3. Director, HME and Pharmacy Business Operations
4. Assistant Director, Infusion Pharmacy
5. Assistant Director, Ambulatory Infusion suites
6. Assistant Director, Home Infusion
7. Manager, Central fill Pharmacy

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

1. Provides strategic and operational leadership for pharmacy and HME services across the Johns Hopkins Care at Home (JHCH), ensuring alignment with organizational goals and priorities.
2. Directs pharmacy and HME operations, clinical services, medication management programs, licensure, enrollment and related functions across the JHCH.
3. Establishes and standardizes pharmacy and HME policies, procedures, and practice standards to promote quality, safety, compliance, and operational excellence.
4. Leads initiatives related to formulary management, contracting, medication, enteral and HME product distribution systems, and technology solutions.
5. Oversees medication and product safety, quality improvement, regulatory readiness, accreditation compliance, and performance optimization efforts.
6. Collaborates with executive, physician, clinical, operational, and academic leaders to advance patient care, service excellence, and strategic objectives.
7. Provides oversight of pharmacy and HME workforce planning, talent management, leadership development, and residency training programs.
8. Supports pharmacy supply chain strategies, including pharmaceutical procurement, management of high cost and ultra-high-cost therapeutic utilization management, inventory optimization, and cost-containment initiatives.
9. Assumes accountability for pharmacy and HME financial performance, including operating, capital, and labor budget planning, monitoring, and stewardship.
10. Drives innovation, continuous improvement, and the adoption of emerging technologies and best practices to enhance pharmacy services and patient outcomes.
11. Provides leadership and oversight of pharmacy and HME administrative, management, professional, technical, and support staff through direct and matrixed reporting relationships.
12. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by personnel so classified.

Minimum Education & Experience Required:

1. Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), required
2. Minimum of 10 Years of Experience in a health system or large Home Care organizations, required.
3. Leadership experience in home care setting, highly desirable
4. Minimum of 10 Years of Experience, progressive leadership experience as a pharmacist, required
5. Maryland Pharmacist License Upon Hire, required
6. Experience in financial management, pharmacy practice models and drug use control strategies.
7. Ability to develop and implement safe drug and product dispensing and distribution systems, departmental budgets and performance improvement initiatives for multiple divisions in a health system environment.
8. Comprehensive understanding of trends in pharmacy and HME related processes, regulations, and health-system dynamics including acute care, ambulatory care, outpatient and home and community-based care models, alternate site infusion and Home-based services and the ability to work collaboratively with health care executives, providers, administrators, other departments and care providers.
9. Demonstrated experience with personnel management, budget preparation, strategic planning, regulatory standards, health care information and technology and clinical outcomes research design.
10. Strong communication, leadership, and organizational skills

Salary Range: Minimum /hour - Maximum /hour. Compensation will be commensurate with equity and experience for roles of similar scope and responsibility. In cases where the range is displayed as a $0 amount, salary discussions will occur during candidate screening calls, before any subsequent compensation discussion is held between the candidate and any hiring authority.

The Hospital reserves the right to modify employee schedules as needed.

We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment, where we embrace and celebrate our differences, where all employees feel valued, contribute to our mission of serving the community, and engage in equitable healthcare delivery and workforce practices.

Johns Hopkins Health System and its affiliates are drug-free workplace employers.