About the Role:
Direct and coordinate tender & contracts, planning, purchasing, and warehousing activities to limit costs and improve accuracy, patient service, and safety. Responsible for handling health affairs end-to-end supply chain operations, the role involves appraising and improving supply chain activities by analyzing health affairs spending, supplying partnerships, and new possibilities.
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Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:
- Review or update supply chain practices in accordance with new or changing policies, standards, regulations, or laws.
- Manage health affairs supply portfolio ensuring transparency of spending.
- Generate and implement efficient sourcing and category management strategies.
- Analyze and calculate costs of procurement, and suggest methods to decrease expenditure.
- Invent negotiation strategies and secure profitable deals.
- Optimize SCM procedures to attain maximum efficiency.
- Cooperate with stakeholders to guarantee agreement on terms and processes.
- Research and anticipate shifts in the negotiating power of suppliers.
- Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking.
- Estimate risks and apply risk-minimizing techniques.
- Discover and collaborate with trustworthy vendors and suppliers.
- Determine quantity and timing of deliveries.
- Assist in supporting supplier relationships.
- Review Requests for Quotes.
- Supervise price negotiations with suppliers.
- Develop new sourcing methods to facilitate health affairs operations.
- Analyze market and delivery systems to assess present and future material availability.
- Resolve vendor or contractor grievances, and claims against suppliers.
- Collaborate with other departments to integrate logistics with business systems or processes, such as patient services, order management, and accounting.
- Respect patients and their families to promote a patient-centered care culture.
- Participate in and support quality improvement and patient safety activities as an individual or as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Perform other job-related duties, as assigned.
Job Qualifications and Experience:
Minimum or Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or related fields (such as industrial engineering or Business Administration) or clinical education (such as Clinical Pharmacist, Physician, etc.) with 10 years of experience.
Preferred:
- Master's degree in Supply Chain Management or related fields (such as industrial engineering, Business Administration, or Health Administration) or clinical education (such as Clinical Pharmacist, Physician, etc.) with 8 years of experience.
