Pharmacy Purchasing Coordinator

About the role

The Pharmacy Purchasing Coordinator collaborates closely with pharmacy, nursing, and other medical personnel to ensure that medication and other supplies are available when and where needed. This position ensures that drug purchasing activities result in safe, effective, and cost-conscious use of medical and pharmaceutical supplies.

Responsibilities

• Works with pharmacy administration to comply with state and federal laws as well as other regulations.
• Participates in the orientation, education, and coordination of training for pharmacy employees, residents, students, and staff.
• Captures and coordinates medication ordering in a manner that maximizes availability, minimizes wastage and reduces stock outages.
• Captures and coordinates the management, communication, and proper record keeping of all medication recalls.
• Responsible for timely, accurate, and organized record keeping of all drug and medication supplies purchased including controlled substance purchases.
• Maintains a plan for personal development and completion of competency validation records.
• Coordinates the filing, billing, and maintenance of interdepartmental accounts for orders from the Pharmacy to hospital-owned clinics.
• Provides back-up staffing in purchasing area when needed due to staff vacancy or workload.
• Coordinates the maintenance of off-site record storage.
• Prepares medication invoices for authorization for payment signature.
• Assesses and maintains organization of medication inventory to comply with The Joint Commission standards, state and federal regulations.
• Uses a courteous and professional customer-focused approach while interacting directly or on the telephone with customers.
• Directs customers with potential problems to the pharmacist, supervisor or administrator as appropriate.
• Participates in organizational and departmental performance improvement efforts and facilitating effective communication relative to these initiatives.
• Maintains a plan for personal development and completion of competency validation records.
• Participates in goal setting, ongoing development, and goals of team.
• If applicable, participates in the quality management program is expected with the goal of improving services by monitoring processes, analyzing data, implementing interventions to improve and evaluating the effectiveness of those interventions.

Requirements

• High School Graduate
• Bachelor's Degree preferred
• 2 or more years experience as a pharmacy technician in a large hospital setting that offers comprehensive pharmacy services
• Experience in pharmacy purchasing
• Pharmacy Technician Registration - State Board of Pharmacy

Skills

• Excellent interdisciplinary communication and leadership skills
• Ability to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department