Inventory Specialist (3:00pm - 11:30am, Sun.-Thurs. or Mon.-Fri.)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

12d•Onsite

About The Position

Vanderbilt Health is the region’s largest comprehensive academic health system with eight hospitals and over 180 clinics. We are committed to providing world-class care, advancing medicine through patient care, education, and research. This role is within the Supply Chain organization and involves coordinating the purchase and control of supplies and equipment with occasional guidance. We foster a collaborative and supportive community where expertise is valued, knowledge is expanded, and uniqueness is celebrated. We are dedicated to uniting talented, compassionate people to bring advanced care to our neighbors.

Requirements

Data Entry (Intermediate): The ability to transcribe information from the original source into an electronic system according to written and verbal instructions efficiently and accurately.
Cost Allocation (Intermediate): Analyzing and recording costs to the appropriate accounts.
Purchasing (Fundamental Awareness): Understands the concepts behind supplier relations and supply chain management. Handles supplier-related activities, requests for pricing, and purchases of goods and services while ensuring appropriate costs, schedules, quality, deliveries, terms, and conditions.
Inventory Management (Intermediate): Monitors material movement into and out of stock, reconciles inventory balances, and maintains adequate inventory levels.
Quality Assurance (Novice): Understands the goal of increasing organizational productivity and individual performance by making the products and services within your work assignments more efficient and more effective.
High School Diploma or GED
2 years of relevant work experience

Responsibilities

Identifies, locates and purchases materials, supplies and equipment in a cost effective manner.
Completes necessary purchasing documentation.
Maintains accurate inventory of assets and supplies.
Forecasts inventory needs.
Prioritizes purchase requests to provide timely delivery of necessary products.
May maintain product information and warranty files.
May be responsible for patient charge capture for dispensed medical supplies to ensure accurate patient billing.