Pharmacy Manager - Community Pharmacy

Company: Optum
Location: Klamath Falls
Posted on: June 15, 2026

Job Description:

Training Requirement: Ability to travel up to 1.5 hours for a required two-week training period. Company will provide reimbursement for hotel accommodations, meals, and mileage during training.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Creates a great consumer and clinic partner experience and continually builds solid relationships with both groups to proactively meet their needs
• Serves as an expert to the clinical staff and proactively meets with their team on meeting their clinical outcomes
• Counsels and educates patients on the usage of medications, adverse effects, schedules and any personal questions from the consumers
• Ensures the pharmacy and team members follow policies and standards in accordance with state and federal laws
• Performs wellness services such as immunizations, flu shots and other preventive services
• Financial profitability and identifies opportunities to drive growth in the pharmacy
• Motivates, develops and coaches all pharmacy staff to ensure they are meeting their potential and delivering exceptional service
• Creates an engaging team environment which promotes compassion and models our core values and culture amongst the team
• Proactively promotes opportunities and recruiting top talent at our pharmacies
• Reviews key performance indicators with pharmacy staff and identifies trends and opportunities for improvement
• Conducts workforce planning and business planning to have operational excellence at the site
• Builds solid relationships with the community, stakeholders and clinic partners to ensure we are meeting all needs and promote the pharmacy business
• Drives marketing plans and materials to promote all pharmacy offerings
  You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy or PharmD
  • Current pharmacist's license in the state of Oregon
  • Certified immunizer or willing to become
  • Willing to complete LAI Training
  • Ability to travel up to 1.5 hours for a required two-week training period
    Preferred Qualification:
    • 2+ years of pharmacy leadership experience -Management Success Practices:
      • Being customer centric: These leaders are finding out what their customers want, then design processes and plan the work to create a better customer experience
      • Developing Others: Managers need to make sure that the right talent is in the right job, with capabilities aligned to the demands of the work. Managers who set the conditions for development act as talent stewards. By providing ongoing coaching and feedback and supporting mobility into other roles or development experiences, they help employees achieve fulfilling results
      • Communicating enterprise purpose: This includes communicating vision, values, culture, strategy, objectives and goals. The manager and the team then have to translate the purpose into the specific tasks of the team, so everyone know where everything fits
      • Creating high performing teams: Creating and fostering high-performing teams is essential. -An effective team has task clarity and right assembly of talent to do the job. Team members have accountabilities and know what to do. The team culture is collaborative. Measures are in place to monitor progress, including feedback loops to add corrective advice and counsel
      • Assuring results: Managers must deliver through others. They keep their teams on task, focusing on specific goals and targets. -Managers will execute on plans while leveraging internal and external customer and stakeholder feedback to make adjustments
      • Technical and functional skills: These leaders know their industry, technical platform, key function of all roles and is a life-long learner
        At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.
        UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $112,700 to $193,200 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.
        UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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