Purchasing Agent (PRN)

Improving Lives Together

Magruder Hospital offers competitive wages with a comprehensive benefit package available to both full-time and part-time employees. We provide a full health plan and generous time off that includes Holidays, Vacation, Sick, Personal, and even your Birthday! Our culture and family friendly work environment truly set us apart- apply today for an opportunity to join our team and help serve this great community!

The Purchasing Agent Executes procedures for the procurement, distribution and control of supplies, equipment and materials used in the hospital.

The essential duties and responsibilities include:

• Producing POs, adding/deleting items, issuing in house orders, receiving POs, maintaining item master
• Manually delivering supplies
• Ordering to restock storerooms, ordering non stock items, working with department heads on new products
• Contacts vendors for best price on all products, (system & non-system)
• Performs physical receipt of supplies daily, verifying the accuracy of the receipt.
• Performs physical issue of supplies to the departments, both stock and non-stock.
• Maintains accurate inventory records.
• Enters issues and receipts daily.
• When ordering verifies correct pricing, specifications and delivery dates.
• Performs physical inventory on scheduled dates.
• Assists in the development and revisions of all Purchasing, Storeroom and Print room procedures.
• Follows procedure for inventory identification, stocking and par level reordering.
• Maintains office and stockrooms in clean and orderly manner.
• Maintains relationships with approved suppliers and seek out new suppliers and manage their ongoing performance per company guidelines
• Works concurrent with the Accounting Department.
• Produces end of month reports.
• Reviews and updates contracts (Vizient) to guarantee we are receiving contract pricing.
• Responsible for negotiate pricing, delivery and terms with suppliers.
• Assists with educating hospital employees on ordering within the Cerner system.
• Is able to communicate any supplier discrepancies or situations that may impact patient care to appropriate department.
• Regularly demonstrates the ability to accommodate interruptions in schedule (deliveries, emergency requests, etc.) and to revise priorities accordingly.
• Maintain backorder log. Notifies the department requestor of backorder via email.
• Is an active member of the Value Analysis Committee (VAC) and assists the Purchasing Director with conversion opportunities, supply standardization and cost savings measures and organizing samples for testing.

Required:

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent
• Computer skills
• Organization and Communication skills
• 2 years prior purchasing experience

Preferred:

• Hospital purchasing experience
• 2 years computer experience with related programs

Magruder Hospital is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment and advancement opportunities to all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class under the law.

Magruder Hospital is a Tobacco and Drug Free Workplace. Any offer of employment will be contingent upon satisfactory completion of pre-employment drug screening, including screening for the presence of nicotine, satisfactory completion of background verification, and the results of a post-offer medical examination, if required by the hospital.