Pharmacy Area Manager North Central (Remote)

About The Role

The Pharmacy Area Manager will act as conduit between store pharmacy and store management, providing specialist operational support and direction to ensure the delivery of safe, legal and profitable pharmacies at Morrisons. This role heavily focuses on identifying opportunities to drive prescriptions, OTC and services sales, as well as reducing operational costs. You’ll also work with external bodies and organisations to understand industry trends and dynamics and how they impact and apply to Morrisons pharmacy business This opportunity will cover 23 stores across the North Areas.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Ensure that Pharmacies are compliant to company, contractual and professional requirements.
• Feed into changes to pharmacy processes following legislative changes
• Please note, due to the regular travel, a car driver is required.
• Support pharmacies with peripheral stock ordering and management
• Support the development and delivery of specific project work
• Work with Clinical Commissioning Groups, Local Authorities and GP surgeries in the area covered to increase services commissioning.
• Maintain and establish Clinical Governance and Information Governance leads in every Pharmacy.
• Oversee the implementation of refits, conversions, new openings and divestments on time and to the specified standard
• Report competitor contract changes or new applications, supporting contract applications & defences with NHS Market Entry.
• Using data provided by central Finance & People teams, support Pharmacy and Store Managers in determining the right course of action for the pharmacy to take e.g. recruit vacancies, right hours in the right place
• Undertake the role of an Authorised Witness for the destruction of Controlled Drugs
• Identify improvement opportunities including products, processes and dispensing efficiencies

This position follows a field based model with a 4 day working week.

About You

We’ve built an incredibly diverse business, and we’re working hard to make sure we truly represent the communities we serve. One of the best things about working with so many different people is having the opportunity to listen, learn and connect with lots of different views, perspectives and beliefs. For this role, we’re looking for someone who has:

• Registered pharmacist qualifications
• Considerable experience managing a Pharmacy
• Engaging communicator.
• Highly developed influencing, facilitation & communication skills
• Planning and organisational skills
• Strong commercial acumen
• General IT skills (Google, MS Excel, Word, Powerpoint)
• Full driving licence
• Evidence of delivering customer centric KPIs
• Successful track record of developing colleagues and teams
• Experience of delivering through a virtual team (indirect & direct management structure)
• Ability to deliver well under pressure

About The Team

Our Procurement Department moves faster than most. They make sure we have what we need when we need it. Whether that’s IT and tech equipment or energy, waste and recycling services, through to PPE and hand sanitiser to keep our people safe, plus extra delivery vans that help us serve more customers than ever.

It’s their job to build strong relationships with suppliers so they can source everything we need to keep our stores, depots and manufacturing sites running. Which, in turn, helps keep prices low for our customers.

It all means that every £1 the team saves is equivalent to taking £50 through our checkouts. And with a £1.2 billion annual spend, you can feel the impact of Procurement right across our business.

About The Company

Our modern Head Office on the edge of Bradford is home to our different support teams from tech, marketing and finance to HR, trading and supply chain.

Alive with activity, this is where decisions are made and our corporate teams make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, newsagents and subsidised restaurant all within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales – always with free parking.

We host regular seasonal events and you’ll often find our suppliers on site sharing details of their latest product. We’re also committed to fundraising for our current charity partner.

Our business is fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you…

Some of the benefits you can expect as follows;

• 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family members (subject to fair usage)
• Generous holiday entitlement
• 4 and a half day working week with flexible working hours
• Company pension contributions
• Perks with over 850 retailers
• Free parking onsite
• A range of family friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave