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Oregon Health & Science University

Operations Manager, Informatics

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Portland, OR 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $157K - $267K 💻 Operations 🗓️ June 16th, 2026

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Oregon Health & Science University is hiring an Operations Manager, Informatics. This role manages the informatics operations within the Pharmacy & Clinical Nutrition Department, overseeing day-to-day team activities, coordinating projects, and driving service improvements across inpatient, ambulatory, and retail pharmacy information systems.

Highlights
  • Manage 24/7 informatics operations in pharmacy covering inpatient, ambulatory, and retail systems
  • Supervise recruitment, training, performance, and scheduling of pharmacy informatics staff
  • Develop programs and strategies for service improvement and expansion in informatics
  • Ensure compliance with practice standards, accreditation, laws, and regulations
  • Coordinate interdisciplinary services within pharmacy, nursing, hospital departments, and external agencies
  • Lead and complete informatics-centric projects aligned with departmental goals
  • Coordinate education and training for pharmacy students and residents
  • Required qualifications include BS-Pharm or PharmD with advanced degree or experience, Oregon licensure, and leadership/supervisory experience
  • Preferred qualifications include PharmD, pharmacy residency, hospital management experience, and informatics pharmacist background
  • Compensation ranges from $157,123.20 to $267,092.80 per year based on experience and education

Operations Manager, Informatics Full Description

Department Overview: 
The Informatics manager serves as a focal point and is highly visible throughout the Pharmacy & Clinical
Nutrition Department as well as the OHSU enterprise. This role helps to coordinate intra and interdepartmental projects as well as managing the day to day activities of the pharmacy informatics team members. This role is expected to interact and negotiate with various leaders throughout the organization and our affiliates. This person will also help to lead various informatics-centric projects to completion. 

Function/Duties of Position: 
Operations Management: 
  • Manages the informatics operations of the pharmacy department at OHSU in a cost-effective manner, directing day-to- day operations (24/7), delegating responsibility and authority for providing services. Informatics responsibility encompasses inpatient, ambulatory, and retail information systems and technology. 
Supervision of Staff:
  • Recruits, hires, trains, develops, schedules, and supervises assigned staff, develops performance standards, conducts performance appraisals (PE); and recommends salary increases consistent with Hospital policy and procedures
Program Design & Development:
  • Development of programs, strategies, facilities and systems for service improvement or expansion in informatics and quality services. 
Process/Service Monitoring:
  • Determines, coordinates/delegates, and schedules appropriate assignment of staff to meet workload demands, assuring adequate resources are available. Maintains practice standards, compliance, and accreditation standards and applicable laws and regulations. 
Process Improvement:
  • Develops new and improved services within University Hospital through constant evaluation and innovation. Continuously improving services to meet patient and provider needs. 
Departmental Interdisciplinary Coordination:
  • Coordinates services in assigned areas with other Pharmacy areas, nursing areas, other Hospital departments, and external agencies to facilitate continuity of care. 
Teaching: 
  • Coordinates the education and training of pharmacy students and residents as applicable; serves as department coordinator for student rotations 
Project Portfolio Management: 
  • Coordinates with the department leadership to ensure completion of planned projects during the fiscal year.
 Required Qualifications: 
  • BS-Pharm or PharmD, and advanced degree or equivalent experience AND
  • PGY2 residency, PGY1 with 2 years of relevant leadership/supervisor experience, OR
  • 5 years of relevant leadership/supervisor experience. 
  • Licensure in the state of OR
Job Related Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (Competencies):
  • Proficiency in pharmacy practice 
  • Communication, written and verbal 
  • Supervision 
  • Contemporary Practice of Pharmacy 

Preferred Qualifications: 
  • PharmD 
  • At least 1 year of experience as an informatics pharmacist or as a pharmacy manager in a hospital setting Masters or Pharmacy Residency University hospital experience 

Additional Details:
The incumbent will spend a significant amount of time at a computer terminal. The position must deal with situations on a daily basis with a high degree of intensity. In addition, within the health care setting there can be significant lack of control over the work pace, with frequent interruptions (work is often dictated by external factors) that may lead to mental fatigue or stress.
 
Telework up to 100%, and may require occasional travel to OHSU Health or partner campus locations as needed. May require evening and/or weekend shifts for coverage during on call assignment, system upgrades, go-lives, or other tasks.
 
Why apply to OHSU?: We are Oregon's only public academic health center. In addition to caring for patients, we lead groundbreaking research. We also train the next generation of health care professionals. As Portland's largest employer, we give you opportunities to learn and advance in a system of hospitals and clinics across Oregon and Southwest Washington. All are welcome. OHSU welcomes people of all ages, ethnicities, genders, national origins, religions and sexual orientations. We are striving to build an anti-racist, multicultural institution and encourage people with diverse backgrounds to apply. To request reasonable accommodation, contact askhr@ohsu.edu