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Memorial Healthcare System · 2 months ago

Supply Chain Procurement Manager - FT - Days - MSS

Memorial Support Services

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

3+ years exp

Memorial Healthcare System is dedicated to improving health and quality of life for the community. The Supply Chain Procurement Manager is responsible for managing daily procurement operations, ensuring efficient flow of goods and services, and collaborating on sourcing initiatives to achieve cost savings and operational efficiencies.

Health Care

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Creates an atmosphere to foresee issues or problems and uses critical thinking and collaboration with others both internally and externally to resolve complex business situations

Monitors the market and industry trends to be proactive in Supply Chain and Procurement activities and benchmarks

Drives ongoing operation excellence and industry best practices to achieve established goals and objectives

Maintains a strong knowledge of suppliers and their capabilities, market trends and technological advances

Oversees the management of open Purchase Orders (POs) avoiding dated information and late fees

Manages and maintains supplier relationships

Creates value through partnerships and collaboration

Maintains awareness of product change to avert delays

Develops ongoing relationships and interactions with stakeholders; understands and serves the need of the business and provides fact-based resolutions

Supports contract compliance and other formal arrangements in all transactions and resolutions to disputes or issues

Accountable for teams’ match exceptions

Collaborates with Accounts Payable (AP) to resolve discrepancies

Serves as liaison between AP and receiving departments on invoice and receipt discrepancies as required following the P2P process

Provides input for revisions of system processes, establishes and implements policies and procedures ensuring compliance to applicable requirements of Federal, State and any other regulatory agency (e.g., Joint Commission)

Ensures department complies with established policies

Integrates department’s services and primary functions by supporting the organizational mission, priorities, and goals, and by delivering optimal quality health care services

Creates an atmosphere to foresee issues or problems and use critical thinking and collaboration with others both internally and externally (message boards/consultants) to resolve complex business situations

Applies knowledge of Material Management Information Systems and other software related to the job functions

Maintains collaboration, partnership and synergies with all areas within Supply Chain

Leads team in collaboration within the System and third-party partners, on the acquisition of goods, services and equipment

Assists customers on product returns and recalls

Follows process for supplier vetting activities from requests, monitoring to completion and communication to end-users

Drives ongoing operation excellence and industry best practices to achieve established goals and objectives

Maintains a strong knowledge of suppliers and their capabilities, market trends and technological advances

Supports contract compliance and other formal arrangements in all transactions and resolutions to disputes or issues

Responsible for execution and management of the Procure to Pay (P2P) process

Provides oversight of procurements’ area of responsibility within Supply Chain Management to include, but not limited to, collaboration with system leaders and stakeholders on capital budgets

Identifies opportunities to negotiate bulk buys per policy and procedures, adhering to the Levels of Authority and ensuring safe and quality patient care and services

Coordinates the resolution of invoice discrepancies in partnership with operations, accounts payable and finance areas

Monitors teams’ preparation and issuance of purchase orders and coordinates delivery schedules

Collaborates with Strategic Sourcing and Value Analysis on the procurement of substitutions and goods and services ensuring initiatives are inclusive

Identifies cost savings target in accordance with departmental and individual goals

Participates in supplier business reviews, when applicable

Manages activities for disaster preparedness for the healthcare system

Develops ongoing relationships and interactions with internal and external stakeholders; understands and serves the need of the business and provide fact resolutions

Creates value through partnerships and collaboration

Leads workgroups, creates work plans, deliverables, savings estimates and desired outcomes for initiatives with targeted due dates

Monitors the market and industry trends to be proactive in Procurement, Sourcing/Contracting, and benchmarks

Drives ongoing operation excellence and industry best practices to achieve established goals and objectives

Maintains a strong knowledge of suppliers and their capabilities, market trends and technological advances

Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, reading literature, attending in-services, meetings, and workshops

Assists Director of Procurement with planning of system-wide Supply Chain Management activities

Supports special projects and performs other duties as assigned

Evaluates all non-file/special items being ordered by departments to enhance standardization; respectfully challenges alternative products and approaches, referring and/or escalating as warranted to Sourcing/Contracting or Value Analysis

Reviews expenditures to ensure accurate pricing and required approvals

Manages the preparation issuance of Purchase Orders to suppliers

Leads in the evaluation of non-file/special items being ordered by departments to validate goods meet hospital standard; seeks alternative products, refers and/or escalates as warranted to Sourcing/Contracting or Value Analysis

Participates, facilitates and/or leads ongoing performance and process improvement initiatives and efforts

Creates work plans, deliverables, savings estimates and desired outcomes for initiatives with expected completion dates

Develops and manages customer service programs to enhance quality control to ensure the effectiveness of Procurement Operations

Safeguards standardization of goods, services, and pricing

Maintains and analyzes statistics, metrics and productivity reports for staff and other impacting activities from other departments and suppliers

Serves as a liaison between stakeholders and suppliers

Supports customers with annual budget planning related to acquisition of goods and services

Obtains, evaluates, and documents proposals to ensure competitive pricing

Obtains price benchmarks utilizing ECRI, Premier, and /or Yankee Alliance

Coordinates evaluations for technology, ensuring all stakeholders are included, using applicable Lean/Process Improvement Tools

Maintains system catalog, to enable forecasting of system requirements

Serves as a resource for system information on the acquisitions

Qualification

Supply Chain ManagementProcurementContract ComplianceMaterial Management SystemsMicrosoft Office SuiteAnalytical SkillsNegotiation SkillsCustomer ServiceEffective CommunicationProblem-SolvingTime ManagementTeamwork

Required

Bachelors: Business Administration (Required)

Three (3) years' experience in equipment sourcing (healthcare preferred), Supply Chain, and Procurement

Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel

Knowledge of standard procurement procedures and practice; able to safeguard the organization's policies and procedures across all areas of levels of the organization

Strong problem-solving skills

Must be sensitive to the needs of customers through the practice of quality service principles and have strong sense of situational and emotional intelligence

Detail oriented, preciseness, and process driven; strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task

Strong problem-solving and process improvement skills

Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships

Time management skills and ability to effectively prioritize

Ability to strategize, plan and implement change

Ability to work in a team setting

Ability to work at a fast pace with frequent interruptions

Ability to proactively identify needs to improve operations

Ability to leverage project planning/management skills to complete projects that enable and improve the operation

Knowledge and understanding of financial and statistical activity reports

Personnel Management skills; must be able to work well and guide others

Preferred

Equivalent work experience may substitute for education requirement

Equivalency for degree: Associate's degree plus six (6) years of experience

High School diploma or GED plus eight (8) years of experience

Company

Memorial Healthcare System

Be at the heart of exceptional care.

Founded in 1953

Easton, Maryland, USA

10001+ employees

http://www.memorialregional.com

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