Excel Health is an AI-driven, holistic e-health ecosystem focused on providing predictive, personalized, and culturally relevant digital healthcare across Africa, with a strong current footprint in Lagos, Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Pharmacist / Pharmacy Lead

Location: Nigeria

Role Summary

• The Excel Health Pharmacist will lead safe and effective medication services across our physical clinic, telehealth, home-care and medication-delivery pathways.
• The role combines clinical pharmacy practice, medication management, patient education, stock governance and service development.
• For the right candidate, there may be an opportunity for longer-term leadership participation and potential shareholding/equity, subject to performance, commitment, agreed milestones, due diligence and formal company approval.

Key Responsibilities

• Dispense and manage medications safely and accurately.
• Review prescriptions for appropriateness, interactions, contraindications and dosing.
• Provide medication counselling and adherence support.
• Support chronic disease patients, particularly hypertension, diabetes and respiratory conditions.
• Manage pharmacy inventory, stock levels, expiry dates and storage requirements.
• Establish pharmacy SOPs, medication governance and audit processes.
• Support medication delivery and repeat-prescription pathways.
• Collaborate with doctors, nurses, laboratory staff and care coordinators.
• Support procurement and relationships with pharmaceutical suppliers.
• Participate in health education and community outreach programmes.
• Contribute to the development and growth of Excel Health’s pharmacy service.

Requirements

• Licensed pharmacist with current registration to practise in Nigeria.
• Minimum 2 years’ relevant post-qualification experience preferred.
• Community, hospital, primary care or digital-health experience desirable.
• Strong understanding of medication safety and pharmacy governance.
• Good communication and patient counselling skills.
• Comfortable working with digital health systems.
• Commercial awareness and interest in building a growing healthcare service would be an advantage.

Regulatory & Compliance:

• Compliance with applicable pharmacy regulations and professional standards in Nigeria.
• Understanding of patient confidentiality and Nigerian data-protection requirements.
• Safe medication storage, dispensing and record keeping.
• Controlled medicines governance where applicable.
• Pharmacovigilance and adverse drug reaction reporting.
• Strong medico-legal and professional accountability.

KPI Expectations

• Dispensing/medication accuracy target ≥ 98%.
• Patient satisfaction ≥ 85%.
• Appropriate stock and expiry management.
• Minimal avoidable stock-outs.
• Timely completion of pharmacy documentation.
• Compliance with pharmacy SOPs and audits.
• Contribution to service growth and medication-adherence programmes.

Growth & Shareholding Opportunity:

• Initial appointment could be on a 3–6 month performance-based arrangement, followed by review for an expanded Pharmacy Lead/Head of Pharmacy position.
• Exceptional candidates who demonstrate sustained clinical quality, leadership, business development contribution and long-term commitment to Excel Health may be considered for performance-linked equity/shareholding or another long-term incentive arrangement. This should not be promised as automatic entitlement and would require a separate formal agreement.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.