# Purchasing Specialist

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: Supply Chain Center
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $22.98 - $35.00
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This position is accountable for purchasing both direct and indirect goods and services, and for ensuring that the company's operational needs are met, while optimising price and quality.

The products, equipment, and services require more functional knowledge of the clinical and/or technical aspects of requested items. The position handles specialised purchasing processes and is a subject matter expert in assigned categories.

The incumbent works and communicates directly with all levels of Intermountain Healthcare Caregivers and suppliers.

**Essential Functions**

- Works directly with assigned service lines, suppliers and product categories to provide world-class purchasing service and solve problems related to the procure-to-pay process.

- Leads the acquisition of requested items by using expanded knowledge of contracts, formulary and policy and driving compliance to meet organisation requirements and goals.

- Verifies submitted requisitions for accuracy, approval, and then generates and executes Purchase Orders.

- Develops close working relationships with aligned category managers to identify and implement cost, quality, and supply continuity improvements.

- Responsible for proactive supply risk management plans for assigned categories and suppliers.

- Ensures that all applicable reports are reviewed and maintained to minimise supply disruptions, facilitate on-time payments and meet targeted benchmarks for established Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

**Skills**

- Effective communication and customer service skills, ability to pay attention to finer details, sound decision-making, and sense of urgency/timeliness and negotiation interfacing with clinical and technical experts and external suppliers.

- Excellent skills in Microsoft Office.

- Knowledge of ERP and P2P systems required.

- Working knowledge of EDI, e-commerce, and phone systems for the placement of orders.

- Critical thinking, ability to analyse problems, communicate and collaborate with other internal and external stakeholders to facilitate decisions.

- Continuous improvement mindset and ability to analyse problems, recommend and implement solutions.

- Mentor – ability to help train and mentor Buyer I's.

- Business acumen, intellectual curiosity, and creative thinking.

- Negotiation - Learns negotiation tactics and identifies successful negotiation examples.

**Qualifications**

- Maintain professional license where necessary.

- Experience in a role requiring attention to detail, sound decision-making, sense of urgency/timeliness and negotiation skills working with Suppliers and Internal Stakeholders.

- Experience in a role requiring work in a fast-paced and changing environment while handling multiple deadlines and priorities.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Two years' demonstrated experience in a role requiring effective communication and customer service skills, interfacing with clinical and technical experts.

**Physical Requirements**

- Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.

- Frequent interactions with customers that require employee to communicate as well as understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.

- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy.

**Location:** Supply Chain Center

**Scheduled Weekly Hours:** 40

**Hourly Range:** $22.98 - $35.00

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Office
- ERP
- P2P systems
- EDI
- e-commerce
- phone systems
- critical thinking
- problem analysis
- communication
- collaboration
- continuous improvement
- negotiation

### Nice to have
- 2 years' experience in a role requiring effective communication and customer service skills

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