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Knoxville, Tennessee

Oncology Pharmacist

PharmacistNo nightsFull-Time

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Job Description

Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today!

Job Details

The Oncology IV Room Day Shift Pharmacist is responsible for overseeing sterile compounding operations and ensuring the safe, accurate, and compliant preparation and dispensing of intravenous medications in accordance with USP standards, regulatory requirements, and organizational policies.

Location: 100 percent onsite in Knoxville TN (UT Medical Center)

Key Responsibilities

Oversee sterile compounding activities, including IV admixtures of hazardous and non-hazardous medications and required regular cleaning.

  • Verify and process IV oncology medication orders for appropriateness, accuracy, compatibility, and stability.
  • Ensure compliance with USP<797>, USP<800>, and applicable regulatory standards.
  • Triage and delegate compounding across pharmacy technician team.
  • Perform final verification of compounded sterile preparations prior to dispensing.
  • Supervise and support pharmacy technicians involved in sterile compounding.
  • Maintain quality assurance, environmental monitoring, and compounding documentation.
  • Provide drug information and collaborate with healthcare providers to optimize patient care.
  • Participate in medication safety, regulatory compliance, and performance improvement initiatives.
  • Assist in inventory and ordering.

Qualifications

  • PharmD or BS Pharmacy degree from an accredited school of pharmacy.
  • Current unrestricted pharmacist license in the appropriate state of practice.
  • Sterile hazardous compounding experience preferred.

What Cencora Offers

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day.

In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness.

This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave.

To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit virtualfairhub.com

Full time

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email hrsc@cencora.com. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned

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Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

IV admixtureOncology pharmacyUSP 797 complianceUSP 800 complianceMedication verificationHazardous medication handlingPharmacy operationsPatient care optimizationInventory managementTeam supervision

Oncology — Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 50 active Pharmacist listings this role was benchmarked against, 48% are remote, 44% have no call, 78% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Tennessee is 91.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 58.6% of Tennessee clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Location & Logistics

Tennessee has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

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401k / retirement match
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Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
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PSLF eligible
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Work-life snapshot

median 5.1this job 5.1
Better work-life than 50% of Oncology (Pharmacy) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 149 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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Living in Knoxville

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$358k
Typical market rent
$1,712/mo
Residents’ average commute
20 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
92.6
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Knoxville, TN metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Cencora

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10,000+ employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Behavioral health solutions
Paid parental leave
Paid caregiver leave
Training programs
Professional development resources