Buyer

Position Summary

Status: Full-Time
Location: Downtown Orlando
Shift: Monday- Friday
Fully on site
At Orlando Health, we are ordinary people with extraordinary individuality, working together to bring help, healing and hope to those we serve. By daily embodying our over 100-year legacy, we reinforce our reputation as a trusted and respected healthcare organization that delivers professional and compassionate care to our patients, families and communities.

Benefits & Perks

All Inclusive Benefits (start day one):
- Student loan repayment
- Tuition reimbursement
- FREE college education programs
- Retirement savings
- Paid paternity leave
- Fertility benefits
- Back up elder and childcare
- Pet insurance
- PTO/Holidays
- and more for full time and part time employees.

Responsibilities

• Prepares and dispatches purchase orders by verifying specifications and price and obtains approval from requisitioning department.
• Utilizes technology to drive decision making, uses ability to gather, analyze, interpret, and summarize, data and purchasing trends.
• Participates in the evaluation of products, goods, or services prior to purchase, and ensures standards are continuously met after purchase.
• Maintains close coordination with various assigned departments to ensure timely receipt of product and services.
• Secures and analyzes quotations and recommends suppliers with respect to cost, quality, and delivery competitiveness for assigned departments.
• Reviews purchase history and savings opportunities.
• Helps as appropriate to procure substitutions that requires clinical approval and coordinates the activities associated with this between clinical departments and suppliers.
• Collaborates with various cross-functional teams on projects such as new product implementations, conversions, changes, and discontinuations.
• Demonstrates sound business decision making aligned with established processes and departmental goals.
• Identifies opportunities to improve operational efficiencies.
• Conveys direction and information clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing.
• Provides purchasing planning and control information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends.
• Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.
• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state, and local standards.
• Approves and corrects invoice discrepancies.
• Negotiates pricing with vendors.

Qualifications

• Education/Training: High School Diploma or GED and 3 years of Purchasing, Supply Chain, or related experience.
• Licensure/Certification: None.
• Experience: Associate degree or Certified Purchasing Professional (CPP) plus 1 year in Purchasing, Supply Chain or related experience may substitute for up to three (3) years of the required experience.