Senior Buyer - Medical/Healthcare industry

Roles & Responsibilities

• Consistently supports the hospital's Spirit of Serving Standards, in line with the Mission, Vision and values.
• Follows the Guidelines related to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), designed to prevent or detect unauthorized disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI).
• Promotes a culture of safety for patients and Associates through proper identification, proper reporting, documentation and prevention of medical errors in a non-punitive environment.
• Effectively manages expenditures to reduce the total cost of ownership of material acquisitions.
• Maintain SAP Material Master data integrity for inventory planning and purchasing fields.
• Works effectively in inventory, planning and purchasing screens in MMIS.
• Maintain satisfactory supplier metrics.
• Create and implement new processes to reduce inventory and waste.
• Follow all safety guidelines and report unsafe conditions to supervisor.
• Responsible for the creation, communication of Procurement related reporting.
• Development of supply chain related analysis to assist in improved contract compliance and lowering of supply costs.
• Aid in the processing of purchase requests for assigned departments.
• Ensures requests are processed in a timely and accurate manner (within 24hrs) and all terms of Purchase agreements are met by vendors.
• Aid Internal Customers to insure inventory levels compare favorably with ordering and receiving levels.
• Strives to keep inventory levels at a minimum.
• Monitoring purchasing computer system to assure efficiency and data integrity.
• Insure purchasing information is updated daily - pricing, unit of purchase, vendor order number etc.
• Aid in the review/ resolution of open orders to ensure Department delivery expectation met.
• Aid in the review and resolution of GARPSE report related issues.

Minimum Qualifications

• Procurement/Purchasing Medical Office Supplies, preferred.
• Buying experience within Healthcare industry, preferred.
• Inventory Management.
• High School Diploma.