UofL Health - Fairdale, KY
posted about 1 month ago
About the position
UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with eight hospitals, four medical centers, Brown Cancer Center, Eye Institute, nearly 200 physician practice locations, and more than 1,000 providers in Louisville and the surrounding counties, including southern Indiana. This position manages the activities, staff, and materials and all logistics processes including transportation from the vendors/distributors, internal distribution of supplies, management of inventory, appropriate staging of products for consumption, and product disposition. The position is responsible for the coordination of all process improvement activities across care systems and for ensuring that technology is appropriately applied to each stage of the logistics process to achieve maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
Responsibilities
- Manage the activities and staff for materials and all logistics processes including transportation from the vendor, 3rd party freight and distributor management.
- Supervise staff, conduct annual reviews for site leadership, and assure compliance with budgets.
- Document, analyze and look for improvement opportunities in the business processes within the Logistics area.
- Establish a system for measuring inventory turns and PAR levels on a continuous basis.
- Identify, implement, and monitor activities against benchmark practices and industry targets.
- Identify areas for process improvement and implement process changes.
- Establish ongoing monitoring systems related to materials management in surgery, cath lab, ED, and vascular.
- Identify and implement system-wide cost savings opportunities.
- Manage the dispensing of supplies to effectively replenish and stage products throughout each of the care systems to meet customer's needs.
- Continuously evaluate supply chain information systems needs and propose necessary system upgrades.
- Initiate new projects, policies, procedures that will improve management and operation of department.
- Demonstrate active committee participation.
Requirements
- High school or GED required
- Associate's or Bachelor Degree preferred
- Equivalent work experience acceptable
- The Association for Operations Management Preferred, APICS or CMRP (Certified Materials Resource Professional), Value Analysis.
- Minimum 5 years hospital supply chain preferred
- Procurement experience in the healthcare industry preferred
