Procurement Specialist

IU Health • Plainfield, IN

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

Indiana University Health is seeking individuals who embody excellence, compassion, teamwork, and purpose to join their Purchasing Management team in the role of Procurement Specialist. This position is a full-time, hybrid role located at the Integrated Service Center in Plainfield, IN. The role is responsible for securing the acquisition and disposal of goods, services, and equipment for all of IU Health. It involves coordinating procurement activities between internal and external parties, processing requisitions and purchase orders, managing capital acquisitions, and ensuring timely vendor returns. The specialist will also build supplier relationships, provide performance feedback, and work with limited guidance to make decisions, ensuring quality, service, and capital purchases are obtained at the best price and on time. Monitoring open orders and communicating with relevant parties is also a key aspect of this role.

Requirements

• High School Diploma/GED is required.
• Requires a minimum of 5 years of relevant purchasing experience.
• Requires advanced knowledge of all facets of Materials Management, including procurement, capital acquisitions, logistics, facility operations, supply chain management and accounts payable functions.
• Requires strong computer skills and a thorough understanding of Materials Management Computer Systems.

Nice To Haves

• Associates Degree or Certified Materials & Resource Professional (CMRP) is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Secures the acquisition and disposal of goods, services and equipment for all of IU Health.
• Effectively coordinates all procurement activities between all relevant internal and external parties to include requester, SCM contracts, SCM business applications, SCM operations and logistics, accounts payable, suppliers and other support staff.
• Reviews, processes and prioritizes requisitions, system and manual purchase orders, capital acquisitions, and ensures vendor returns are processed in a timely manner.
• Builds relationships with suppliers to ensure deliverables and invoice resolutions are met.
• Provides supplier performance feedback for SCM business reviews.
• Works under limited guidance on problems using resources and independent judgement to make decisions.
• Ensures all efforts are exhausted to obtain quality, service and capital purchases on time and at the best price.
• Ensures goods and capital acquisitions have been secured by closely monitoring open orders and communicating to all internal and external parities as needed.

Benefits

• personal and professional growth is a top priority
• access to many diverse opportunities to learn and develop in meaningful ways that matter most to you, such as advanced clinical training, leadership development, promotion opportunities and cross training development

What This Job Offers

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