
Pharmacy Inventory Specialist
- New Hyde Park, Queens, NY
- $28.00 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Medical, Dental & Vision insurance
- 401k with a match
- Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Volunteer Day
- Floating Holiday
- Referral Incentive
- Paid Life, and short & long-term disability insurance
- Participates in orientation, training, and competency assessment.
- Manages the medication return processes including medication returned to pharmacy, manufacturer returns and replacement product.
- Receive drugs and supply orders, stock shelves, rotates stock using FEFO, and removes outdated drugs from inventory.
- Monitor inventory levels of supplies and drug specific care kits to ensure compliance with SOPs.
- Manage inventory out-of-stocks communicating with purchasing as necessary.
- Complete cycle counts as well as physical inventory and investigate/resolve any active variance.
- Ensure all intercompany pharmacy transfers are completed as requested in a timely manner.
- Maintains a clean and safe pharmacy work environment by complying with policies, procedures, and regulations.
- Maintain quarantined shelves and process drug returns in a timely manner to ensure all products are accounted for in inventory.
- Monitor CPR+ for negative inventory balances. Perform root-cause analysis and report findings to the team.
- Promptly respond to recall notifications per company's policies and procedures.
- Understand USP 800 guidelines. Follow safe handling of hazardous materials.
- Ensure packing all deliveries are as per SOPs, including seasonal cold chain packing to protect product integrity.
- Escalates workflow/process improvement ideas to leadership
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related tasks such as, filling prescriptions, preparing packages for shipment, and any other tasks assigned by the pharmacy technician supervisors, fulfillment manager or pharmacy director.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Conducts job responsibilities in accordance with the standards set out in the Company's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, its policies and procedures, the Corporate Compliance Agreement, applicable federal and state laws, and applicable professional standards.
- Required: High school or GED equivalent
- Desired: Certified Pharmacy Technician, Associates, or Bachelor degree
- Required: 2+ Pharmacy or Healthcare Setting
- Desired: Previous leadership experience
- Required: Pharmacy or Healthcare related knowledge, data entry and experience in conjunction with pharmacy
- Desired: Specialty pharmacy leadership
- Required: Registration with Board of Pharmacy as required by state law
- Desired: Certified Pharmacy Technician (PTCB)
- Good interpersonal skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently, meet deadlines and be flexible
- Good organizational skills and detail oriented
- Knowledge of medical terminology (including sig codes and Roman numeral), brand and generic names of medications and general pharmacy terminology
- Ability to perform tasks accurately and efficiently when inputting information
- Basic math and analytical skills