Inventory Specialist (3:00pm - 11:30am, Sun.-Thurs. or Mon.-Fri.)

About the role

Discover Vanderbilt Health: With eight hospitals and over 180 clinics, we are the region’s largest comprehensive academic health system. Vanderbilt Health has a long tradition of providing world-class care to the people of the Mid-South, living out our mission of moving medicine forward through preeminent programs in patient care, education and research. Here you’ll find a spirit of collaboration and a supportive community where your expertise is valued, your knowledge expanded and your uniqueness celebrated. We are committed to fostering an environment where talented, compassionate people are united in bringing the most advanced care to our neighbors throughout the region. Coordinates the purchase and control of supplies and equipment with occasional guidance.

Responsibilities

• Identifies, locates and purchases materials, supplies and equipment in a cost effective manner.
• Completes necessary purchasing documentation.
• Maintains accurate inventory of assets and supplies.
• Forecasts inventory needs.
• Prioritizes purchase requests to provide timely delivery of necessary products.
• May maintain product information and warranty files.
• May be responsible for patient charge capture for dispensed medical supplies to ensure accurate patient billing.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

Skills

• Data Entry (Intermediate): The ability to transcribe information from the original source into an electronic system according to written and verbal instructions efficiently and accurately.
• Cost Allocation (Intermediate): Analyzing and recording costs to the appropriate accounts.
• Purchasing (Fundamental Awareness): Understands the concepts behind supplier relations and supply chain management. Handles supplier-related activities, requests for pricing, and purchases of goods and services while ensuring appropriate costs, schedules, quality, deliveries, terms, and conditions.
• Inventory Management (Intermediate): Monitors material movement into and out of stock, reconciles inventory balances, and maintains adequate inventory levels.
• Quality Assurance (Novice): Understands the goal of increasing organizational productivity and individual performance by making the products and services within your work assignments more efficient and more effective.
• Developing Self and Others: Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities.
• Building and Maintaining Relationships: Seeks to understand colleagues' priorities, working styles and develops relationships across areas.
• Communicating Effectively: Openly shares information with others and communicates in a clear and courteous manner