Position: Buyer
Location: Circleville, OH
Department: Purchasing
Reports To: Purchasing Manager
Hours: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Classification: Exempt
Would you like excellent work and personal life balance and never take work home?
Would you like to work with an established and stable medical products company?
Then join Health Care Logistics Purchasing Team!
About Health Care Logistics
For 45 years Health Care Logistics (HCL) has been an established and stable medical products company that is an industry leader specializing in manufacturing, packaging, and distributing unique and hard-to-find products. Complete customer satisfaction is at the heart of everything we do.
HCL guarantees an unmatched inventory of unique and hard-to-find items that includes compounding and dispensing products, infection prevention supplies and unit dose packaging materials, as well as many other lines. We stock more than 8,000 products from 22 unique lines. We've tailored our products and services to the needs of our customers which makes us unique and adaptable to meet our customer’s needs!
Some of the things you will do as a Buyer
- Buying products that are produced by outside vendors.
- Responsible for negotiating and purchasing materials, supplies and equipment with vendors.
- Support inquiries from internal departments so that external customers are provided all the information needed for purchasing considerations.
- Obtains and analyzes bids in accordance with established policies and procedures.
- Initiate and maintain all purchase orders, blanket purchase orders, contracts, and other related purchasing documents including the maintenance of the computer database.
- Review acknowledgements for agreement with purchase orders and resolve any discrepancies with the supplier to the best possible advantage for the company.
- Follow-up and expedite orders as necessary to meet schedules.
- Provide leadership in driving cost reductions and cost control measures with proper documentation.
- Use appropriate processes and procedures to support production activities and Quality System standards.
- Assist in inventory control measures as needed.
What education and experience you will bring to HCL
- Four year degree in Business, or equivalent education or experience
- Minimum two (2) years’ experience in direct purchasing functions or equivalent work experience
- Minimum two (2) years of negotiation and quoting experience
- Good MRP/ERP experience. Experience with Epicor P21 preferred.
- Understanding of compliance regulations (GMP, FDA, DEA, Customs, USP, etc.).
- Understanding of patent process.
- Knowledge of inventory procedures and controls
- Ability to be a strong team player
- Good people, organization, and communication skills; both verbal and written
The Good Stuff also known as What HCL Offers
At HCL you can have a great job that can grow into a great career. HCL offers:
- Work environments that are safe, clean, well-lit, and spaced out with safety dividers
- Excellent work life balance! Monday through Friday work week. Never take work home!
- Training and career development with onboarding program and tuition assistance for employees who wish to develop their career
- Financial security through competitive compensation
- Health care and wellbeing programs including medical, dental, vision and wellness
- Paid time off including vacation and personal time
- 401K retirement savings with a generous company match
- Rainy Day Savings Program for unplanned emergencies with a generous company match