About the Role

At Alto, the business is our first line of defense.  We are passionate about empowering Altoids and protecting our patients, staff and the business.  We are looking for a compliance leader who will bring a rigorous and intuitive approach to compliance and risk management that can scale as our company grows.  You should be an expert in pharmacy practice, healthcare compliance and risk management.  You should have the ability to manage the compliance initiatives that ensure operations are in compliance with all federal, state and local regulations and industry standards.  In addition, you should be able to grow our enterprise risk management program through a pragmatic, business-minded and data-driven lens.  If you are collaborative, analytical, and have a solid background in compliance and risk management in the pharmacy industry, this exciting, hands-on role will align with and reward you professionally.  This position reports to the Head of Legal. This role is remote with some travel to Alto Pharmacy locations. 

Accelerate your Career as You:

• Lead a small but mighty team of talented pharmacy compliance professionals; (3 People)
• Develop pharmacy compliance systems and standards, and design improvements to existing internal control structures;
• Take Alto’s compliance program to the next level by maturing Alto’s enterprise risk management processes;
• Partner with clinical, operational, engineering, product, marketing and finance stakeholders to to design a compliance and risk management strategy that is aligned with business objectives and right-sized for our business;
• Design internal audit, policies and trainings that will put Alto on its best foot forward 
• Stay informed of pertinent healthcare regulatory changes and partner with cross functional teams to implement necessary changes
• Create training and communications around regulatory changes and compliance best practices
• Assist pharmacy locations with audit preparedness (DEA/State Board of Pharmacy)
• Ensure Alto’s compliance function supports pharmacists in charge responding to regulatory audit deficiencies as necessary
• Ensure that Alto’s compliance function includes expertise in internal audit, policies; risk assessments; Board of Pharmacy, DEA and FDA regulations as well as HIPAA and healthcare fraud and abuse;
• Oversee ongoing management of accreditation standards
• Utilize program management skills, experience, and methodologies to run successful projects through planning, resource management, meeting planning/facilitation, conflict resolution, risk mitigation, and status reporting for a growing healthcare entity
• Develop cross-functional pharmacy programs from inception to implementation, including collaboration with executive and operational stakeholders to drive compliant policies, procedures, workflows and training
• Effectively interface with executive audiences, program sponsors and business leads to reach mutually acceptable agreements on objectives, scope, deliverables, timeframes, resources and outcomes
• Provide subject matter expertise in Pharmacy industry regulation, translation and application to practices at Alto

A Bit About You:

Minimum Qualifications:

• PharmD degree
• 9+ years experience in a pharmacy compliance role in a healthcare environment, ideally retail pharmacy;  
• 5+ years managing a team
• Business thinker and teacher
• Tech savvy 
• Demonstrable track-record of leading or participating in the design and implementation of compliant pharmacy programs
• Strong knowledge of multi-jurisdictional pharmacy laws and enforcement
• Excellent communication and ability to build partnerships with internal stakeholders.  

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Innovative, outside of the box thinker.  You believe that compliance can be a driver for innovation.
• Technology and/or start-up experience.
• Highly metrics and process oriented.
• Retail and/or direct to consumer experience.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity, fast growth and can think on your feet.
• Formal training and/or certification in Healthcare Compliance and/or Process Improvement and Training methodologies
• Proficiency in using collaboration tools (e.g. Asana, Slack)    

Additional Physical Job Requirements:

Office job:

• Read English, comprehend, and follow simple oral and written instructions.  The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.  Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned.
• Communicating with others to exchange information.  Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• The ability to hear, understand, and distinguish speech and/or other sounds (e.g., phone conversations)
• Frequent repeating motions required to operate a computer that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.
• Sedentary work: Sitting most of the time, exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Walking and standing are required only occasionally. 

Salary Range: $178K - $240K 

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