Location: Irvine, CA
Cap-Exempt H-1B Position — No lottery required
Overview: **UCI Health** is the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine, and the only academic health system based in Orange County. UCI Health is comprised of its main campus, UCI Medical Center, a 459-bed, acute care hospital in in Orange, Calif., four hospitals and affiliated physicians of the UCI Health Community Network in Orange and Los Angeles counties and ambulatory care centers across the region. Listed among America’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for 23 consecutive years, UCI Medical Center provides tertiary and quaternary care and is home to Orange County’s only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, high-risk perinatal/neonatal program and American College of Surgeons-verified Level I adult and Level II pediatric trauma center, gold level 1 geriatric emergency department and regional burn center. UCI Health serves a region of nearly 4 million people in Orange County, western Riverside County and southeast Los Angeles County. To learn more about UCI Health, visit www.ucihealth.org. Responsibilities: **Position Summary:** The Manager, Pharmacy Procurement is responsible for the operational leadership, administrative oversight, and systemwide coordination of all medication procurement, inventory management, and pharmaceutical financial stewardship functions across UCI Health, including acute and non-acute patient care settings. The incumbent is accountable for managing pharmaceutical sourcing, purchasing, and distribution activities to ensure a safe, reliable, and cost-effective medication supply, including oversight of vendor relationships, group purchasing organization participation, wholesaler agreements, local contract negotiations, and monitoring of purchase trends, utilization, and pricing to support cost management and supply chain performance. This role maintains responsibility for managing drug shortages by developing mitigation strategies and coordinating therapeutic substitutions to mai