Blood Bank Managers are in charge of the procedures performed at their location. They typically administer the quality of the clinical procedures and information by ensuring unit staff uses safe, secure, and established procedures, protocols and guidelines. Normally they manage transfusion services and donor blood collection operations.

Blood bank managers are accountable for operating the budget, for maintaining accreditation, for the quality of transfusion services, as well as for risk management for transfusion and donor operations. Blood bank managers have a wide variety of roles, and must be excellent at multi-tasking and maintaining authority over others.