Vice President of Pharmacy Operations Job Sterling area,Alaska USA,Healthcare

Vice President of Pharmacy Operations

Pay Range: $210,000-$250,000 annually

Location: Sterling, VA

Work Model: In-person

Employment Type: Full-time

About Akina Pharmacy

Akina Pharmacy is a nationally-accredited specialty compounding pharmacy on a mission to enrich lives through compounded medicine. Since 2012, we've partnered with prescribers and patients across the United States to deliver expertly compounded sterile and non-sterile medications when off-the-shelf solutions fall short. We call it the Chemistry of Care™: precision and compassion working together.

Our fast-growing team is guided by an ambitious vision, core values, and a high-performance environment built on clear communication, pragmatic decision-making, and accountability. We hold ourselves to the highest standards. In the pharmacy, that means PCAB accreditation and LegitScript certification. With our people, it means empowering them through continuous growth and support. If you're driven by a passion for meaningful impact and want to be a part of a vibrant, people-first team where your contribution genuinely matters, we'd love to meet you.

Our

Core Values

Excellence Always: We hold ourselves to a high standard and continually push it higher. We bring that standard to everything we do-big or small, seen or unseen-and carry it across the finish line. Our relentless determination to the be the best is reflected in the way we work, the details we refuse to overlook, and the results we deliver. This is how we earn the trust of our patients, providers, and each other.

Called To Serve:We act for the greater good, putting what is best for the company, our team, and our customers ahead of personal comfort or gain. We go the extra mile for others. Serving this way connects us to a purpose greater than ourselves:
Enriching Lives. It gives deeper meaning to our work, and it's why Akina exists.

Total Ownership:We take full responsibility for our work, decisions, and results. We don't wait for permission or instructions; we initiate and drive outcomes. When faced with setbacks or challenges, we stay focused on what is within our control and respond with solutions and action. That level of ownership means people can count on us through thick or thin, and gives us the power to take meaningful action as a unified team toward achieving our shared mission.

Open and Honest:We listen and seek to understand feedback, new ideas, and perspectives that challenge our own. We speak the truth directly and clearly, hiding nothing and removing all politics from our communication. By choosing vulnerability and transparency over comfort, we make each other better and build the deep trust required to engage in healthy conflict, stay aligned, and solve hard problems.

About

the Role

The VP of Pharmacy Operations leads end-to-end pharmacy operations at Akina, from prescription receipt through compounding, dispensing, and fulfillment. With a strong foundation already in place, this is a rare opportunity to build an operating model designed for scale across Akina's next chapter of expansion. The role is accountable for the department's people, capacity, financial performance, and customer experience, and for an operating model built to support our trajectory.

This leader partners with Quality & Compliance and the PIC(s) to ensure compliant execution, and builds a team capable of sustaining rapid growth in service of our mission of enriching lives through compounded medications.

Key Responsibilities 1. Leadership and Management

Build and maintain the management structure required to support current operations and future growth.
Set clear expectations, priorities, and accountability for the department's leaders and teams.
Develop leaders and strengthen management capability throughout the department.
Ensure the right people are in the right seats and address performance gaps when they arise.
Create a culture of ownership, execution, and continuous improvement aligned with Akina's values and operating expectations.

2. End-to-End Pharmacy Operations

Own the end-to-end pharmacy operations execution and performance, ensuring prescriptions move consistently, accurately, safely, and timely from receipt through production planning, compounding, quality-control checkpoints, dispensing, and fulfillment.
Ensure work moves effectively across operational stages, resolving bottlenecks, handoff failures, execution issues, and operational disruptions affecting continuity or turnaround.
Ensure production planning and…