Inventory Control Assistant

Sanford Health • Bismarck, ND

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland. The hospital supply chain is a great place to work if you enjoy making a real, visible impact on patient care every day. It offers a fast-paced, team-oriented environment with opportunities to learn, grow, and solve meaningful problems—knowing that what you do directly supports clinicians and helps patients receive the care they need, when they need it. Pay starts at $16.00 with additional credit given for work experience relative to this role.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
• Associate degree or post-secondary education and previous inventory experience preferred.
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel required.
• Inventory management systems knowledge helpful.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the perpetual inventory in assigned warehouses, maintaining a computer-based inventory management system/stock master, Periodic Automatic Replenishment (PAR) levels and managing daily cycle count activity.
• Working closely with the clinical leaders, physicians and department staff to assure the availability of necessary supplies and equipment for procedures.
• Working with the procure-to-pay team to resolve backorder problems with items, and inform the end-users of delays in product availability.
• Assisting in coordination of new product trials with physicians, clinical staff and vendor representatives, and with product conversions and standardization initiatives in assigned warehouse locations.
• Reviewing requests to add items to assigned locations and informing customers of the acceptance or denial of the requests.
• Overseeing product recalls in assigned warehouses and providing information on recalled items to purchasing in a timely manner.
• Achieving inventory turnover rates as assigned per location and fill rates to customers of 99 percent as related to perpetual inventory (depending on location).
• Assisting in end-of-fiscal-year audits by outside auditing from and managing other year-end duties for a successful fiscal year-end inventory of assigned warehouses.
• Other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED