Manager, Medical Staff Office

Job Description: Manager, Purchasing

Purchasing

Status: Full Time
Shift: Exempt

MemorialCare is a nonprofit integrated health system that includes four leading hospitals, award-winning medical groups – consisting of over 200 sites of care, and more than 2,000 physicians throughout Orange and Los Angeles Counties. We are committed to increasing access to patient-centric, affordable, and high-quality healthcare; your personal contributions are integral to MemorialCare's recognition as a market leader and innovator in value-based and other care models.

Across our family of medical centers, we support each one of our bright, talented employees in reaching the highest levels of professional development, contribution, collaboration, and accountability. Whatever your role and whatever expertise you bring, we are dedicated to helping you achieve your full potential in an environment of respect, innovation, and teamwork.

Responsibilities:

• Leading and managing staff to assure the efficient purchasing needs of the Health System.
• Promoting a business environment that maximizes the use of technology toward leading practices, greatest efficiency, productivity, and high quality databases.
• Researching and evaluating alternate supplies, suppliers and equipment.
• Authorizing purchases within budgetary limits, awards purchase orders, and approves exception invoices for payment.
• Responsible for training and staff development to ensure business process adherence and identification of leading practice.
• Acting as liaison with the Supply Organization to support a holistic approach for Procure to Pay Solutions.
• Consistently observing and fostering mandatory confidentiality relating to sensitive business or patient-related material/information.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing the daily operations of the Purchasing buyer team in a professional and efficient manner ensuring compliance with all MHS policies, procedures and MHS contracts, and contracting strategy.
• Accountable to ensure the Buyer team performs with demonstrated skill capability and capacity to meet MHS procurement demand needs within target accuracy and efficiency tolerances.
• Exhibiting advanced expertise with MMIS application procurement workflow, GPO and local contracting, MHS policy and contracting strategy, and other procurement and materials-related functions.
• Key performance and behavior indicators are effectively monitored and adjusted to meet target outcomes.
• Purchasing workflow integrity consistently monitored; demonstrated active and efficient effective root-cause analysis and problem solving is facilitated with the team.
• Demonstrated competency to perform the buying functions for any/all department supply and service procurement needs.
• In collaboration with Executive Director, staffing and/or expense budget is created, monitored and supported throughout the fiscal year.
• Evaluating and authors Purchasing business process, effectiveness and accuracy ensuring consistent adherence by responsible parties.
• Manages supply disruptions to ensure available product.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits, including high quality health insurance plan options so you can select the best choice for your family.

Qualifications/Work Experience:

• Seven years of relevant knowledge and experience with healthcare purchasing, materials, finance and contracting; includes experience managing one or more teams.
• Expert level proficiency with spreadsheets, word processing and other office applications.
• Demonstrated portfolio of experience with logical thinking, problem-solving skills and project management.
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, economics, business law, math or statistics required.