Zest Scientific is working on behalf of a leading player in the pharmacy space, and we are looking to identify a Superintendent Pharmacist with extensive leadership experience and a commercial focus to help drive business performance and scale company operations.

This is an exciting opportunity to help grow a rapidly expanding company and have real input into the direction of the business

The candidate.

• Be a qualified UK pharmacist with extensive experience in a senior position, managing large teams and overseeing operational activities within private practice or the NHS.


• Have a desire for continual improvement, driving change, raising standards and seeking information


• Be commercially focussed with a desire to grow the business while overseeing operations


• Be operationally focused and understand process analysis, data interrogation and using data for behavioural change

The role.

• Full responsibility for a number of pharmacies


• Team management of a large team, fostering team spirit, engagement, passion for purpose, culture of delivering for patients


• Operations management, with a focus on using available levers to improve efficiency, quality and delivery


• Regulatory compliance, risk management, maintaining and developing SOPs, preparing for inspections, managing internal audits


• Management of pharmacy processes, including all fundamental operations and processes


• Oversight and administration of the WDA, in conjunction with the outsourced Responsible Person


• Quality assurance and control, including optimising processes, setting and driving high standards, meeting SLAs


• Ensuring all team members and customer-facing staff have appropriate training to maintain compliance and competence


• Keep up-to-date with regulations, market demands and trends, competitors, ingredients and pro ducts


• Understand the supply chain and hold suppliers to high quality standards


• Ensure that stock is appropriately managed and outages are avoided wherever possible


• Oversee the implementation of new products, ensuring that team members are fully trained in the formulation