Pharmacy Trainee at mPharma Nigeria

At mPharma, we start and end our day thinking about how we can enable patients to afford their medications. We’re a small but growing team of 350+ members, headquartered in Accra, Ghana, backed by mission-driven investors. We’ve joined hands with third-party payers, drug manufacturers and healthcare providers to develop products and services that directly reduce the costs of prescription drugs for patients. In only a few years, we’ve managed to provide low-cost, high-quality medicines to hundreds of thousands of patients across seven African countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi & Rwanda).

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Pharmacy Trainee

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-Time - permanent contract

Position Description

• We are looking for a responsible and trustworthy professional with exceptionally high work standards to join our team as a Locum Pharmacist.
• The job of the Locum Pharmacist entails building and managing mPharma’s in house pharmacy to handle dispensations to patients on Mutti.
• This role reports directly to the Delivery Services Manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and manage inventory, order new supplies when necessary and keep inventory areas organized.
• Manage a team of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians to ensure the right packaging and dispensation of medicines.
• Dispense and check prescriptions filled by Pharmacy Technicians to ensure proper procedures have been followed.
• Ensure that patients requesting for deliveries have legitimate prescriptions before any dispensation occurs.
• Manage the logistics system and ensure that deliveries to patients happen on time.
• Develop and manage drug formularies for mymutti.com and other online platforms.
• Manage customer experience on mymutti.com (Complaints, user experience, product availability, bug reporting & troubleshooting).
• Assist in the development and implementation of marketing strategies; (media content/calendar, supervise artworks, schedule posts etc.
• Offer clinical counseling to patients through our call center.
• Other duties as may be assigned by Manager.

Qualifications

• B Pharm or Pharm. D Degree in Pharmacy from an accredited college/university.
• Current Practicing License.
• At least 1+ years experience working in a Retail Pharmacy or Hospital Pharmacy.

Our Ideal Candidate:

• An entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for mPharma's mission to increase the accessibility and affordability of high quality medicines.
• Strong work ethics and a proactive "can do" attitude that requires minimal supervision.
• Fluent English with excellent writing, verbal, analytical, and organizational skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Excel.
• Strong project management background.
• Strong interpersonal skills to network with new people and develop business relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Experience working in a pharmacy and managing teams is an advantage
• A self-starter who can multitask while consistently producing high quality deliverables for a diverse set of concurrent initiatives.
• Must be able available to work on Sundays and every other Saturdays.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online