Pharmacy Technician 2 - UVA Health Inpatient Pharmacy (Supply Chain)

Build a pharmacy career that extends beyond traditional inpatient operations. Join UVA Health's Inpatient Pharmacy Supply Chain team and help ensure medications and essential supplies are available where and when patient care teams need them.

This position combines hands-on pharmacy technician responsibilities with inventory management, medication receiving, requisition fulfillment, procurement support, and pharmacy supply chain operations. You will work closely with pharmacy buyers, pharmacists, technicians, clinics, and other healthcare partners while gaining valuable exposure to the operational and business functions that support a complex health system.

The Role

As a Pharmacy Technician 2 within Inpatient Pharmacy Supply Chain, you will support the movement of medications and supplies from delivery through distribution. Your work will have a direct operational impact, helping pharmacy teams and supported patient care locations maintain reliable access to needed products.

The typical schedule is Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with one Saturday every third week and a corresponding weekday off.

Your day may include:

• Receiving, verifying, unpacking, organizing, and distributing pharmaceutical and supply orders to the IV room, Inpatient Pharmacy Operations, carousel areas, and other pharmacy locations.

• Processing approximately 20 to 30 daily requisitions from clinics and satellite locations, including pulling products, obtaining pharmacist verification, preparing orders, and staging them for courier pickup.

• Monitoring and fulfilling routine, new, and STAT carousel requests throughout the day.

• Receiving morning and midday deliveries from vendors such as Cardinal Health, FedEx, and UPS.

• Completing purchase-order receiving activities in PeopleSoft so vendor invoices can be processed accurately and promptly.

• Monitoring inventory levels, supporting cycle counts, initiating hospital storeroom requisitions, and coordinating replenishment needs with pharmacy buyers.

• Tracking packages and totes through the receiving area's scanning process.

• Responding to questions involving inventory, deliveries, and receiving through the Pharmacy Supply Chain inbox.

• Communicating proactively about medication shortages, delayed deliveries, changing inventory needs, and competing operational priorities.

• Supporting contrast inventory and distribution across hospital and clinic locations as assigned.

This is an active role with a substantial receiving component. Morning deliveries may include two to three pallets of totes and boxes, and team members may spend several hours receiving and distributing shipments. The work involves moving through the receiving area, working around pallets, rolling shelving, and pallet jacks, and lifting boxes weighing up to approximately 50 pounds.

The team plans to rotate responsibilities among its three technicians, providing broader experience across requisitions, receiving, inventory, and supply chain activities. You will also have the opportunity to take ownership of an established receiving environment and contribute practical ideas as workflows and processes are modernized.

Successful team members are flexible, collaborative, and comfortable balancing hands-on operational work with computer-based responsibilities. They communicate clearly, recognize what requires immediate attention, and take initiative without needing constant day-to-day direction.

Why UVA Health

UVA Health offers the scale, complexity, and learning environment of an academic health system, creating opportunities for pharmacy professionals to develop capabilities that reach well beyond a single operational function.

UVA Pharmacy continues to grow alongside expanding clinics, ambulatory services, infusion programs, and Off-Grounds patient care locations. This growth makes Pharmacy Supply Chain increasingly important to maintaining medication availability and supporting safe, efficient care.

In this position, you will benefit from:

• Close collaboration with an experienced pharmacy buyer team and colleagues with extensive institutional and supply chain knowledge.

• A supportive, practical, and calm team culture that works collaboratively through shortages, delayed deliveries, and changing operational needs.

• Exposure to PeopleSoft, purchase orders, procurement, receiving, inventory management, medication distribution, and process improvement.

• Rotating responsibilities designed to expand your knowledge and prevent you from being limited to one function.

• The opportunity to help improve a receiving operation that is ready for thoughtful workflow modernization.

• Experience that can support future advancement into pharmacy buyer, senior pharmacy buyer, 340B analyst, pharmacy informatics technician, procurement, analytics, or other advanced pharmacy and supply chain roles.

• Access to UVA Health's broader pharmacy technician career structure, including progression opportunities within inpatient operations.

This is an especially strong opportunity for a pharmacy technician who enjoys the clinical purpose of pharmacy while wanting to understand the inventory, procurement, systems, and business processes that make medication distribution possible.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Education: High School Graduate or equivalent required.

Experience: 6 months minimum relevant experience required.

Licensure: Commonwealth of Virginia Pharmacy Technician Registration required. CPhT credential through National Healthcareer Association (NHA) or Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Job requires standing for prolonged periods. Proficient communicative, auditory and visual skills; attention to detail and ability to write legibly; ability to lift/push/pull less than 20 lbs.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Retirement Savings
• Long-term and Short-term Disability
• Health Saving Plans, and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Certification and Education Support

UVA Health is a world-class Magnet Recognized academic medical center and health system with a level 1 trauma center. 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report "Best Hospitals" guide rates UVA Health University Medical Center as "High Performing" in 5 adult specialties and 14 conditions/procedures. We are one of 70 National Cancer Institute designated cancer centers. UVA Health Children's is named by 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report as the best children's hospital in Virginia with 9 specialties ranked among the best in the nation. Our footprint also encompasses 3 community hospitals and an integrated network of primary and specialty care clinics throughout Charlottesville, Culpeper, Northern Virginia, and beyond.

The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Learn more about UVA's commitment to non-discrimination and equal opportunity employment.