Senior Purchasing Coordinator - Infusion Clinics

Option Care Health•Murray, UT

13d•Onsite

About The Position

This role coordinates and performs the purchasing of Specialty pharmaceuticals for our pharmacies on a daily basis. The position involves monitoring company-wide Specialty pharmaceutical inventory to optimize inventory levels and minimize carry-costs. The Senior Purchasing Coordinator will act as a company resource for product returns to wholesalers and/or manufacturers to ensure proper credit is received, establish procurement accounts with suppliers, execute investment buys on high dollar Specialty pharmaceuticals, and lead reverse distribution practices for the supply chain.

Requirements

High School diploma or equivalent and at least 3 years of experience in a supply chain, procurement, or business role.
Basic level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: opening a workbook, inserting a row, selecting font style and size, formatting cells as currency, using copy, paste and save functions, aligning text, selecting cells, renaming a worksheet, inserting a column, selecting a chart style, inserting a worksheet, setting margins, selecting page orientation, using spell check and/or printing worksheets).
Basic level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: opening a document, cutting, pasting and aligning text, selecting font type and size, changing margins and column width, sorting, inserting bullets, pictures and dates, using find and replace, undo, spell check, track changes, review pane and/or print functions).
Basic skill level in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: inserting, rearranging, hiding and deleting slides, navigating between slides, increasing list level, adding, centering and editing text, changing views, inserting a table or a note, moving objects, printing outline view and/or running a slide show).
Experience establishing & maintaining relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization, in the business community & with vendors.

Nice To Haves

Licensed pharmacy technician with previous home healthcare experience.

Responsibilities

Evaluates and processes high dollar Specialty product order requisitions from pharmacy network.
Keeps office apprised of product availability in the market.
Responsible for setting up new accounts with suppliers.
Develops and maintains relationship with suppliers.
Selects products and assists in determining the vendor from whom purchases will be made.
Ensure orders are accessing appropriate contract pricing.
Monitors overstock levels of high dollar products across pharmacy network to optimize company-wide inventory positions on high dollar Central Specialty ordered products and minimize carrying costs.
Communicates order status, issues, disposition with field staff as necessary.
Directs intra-company transfers within the pharmacy network of high dollar Specialty products to manage company-wide inventory positions.
Manages inventory cycling of Central Specialty short dated products to minimize loss/waste.
Provide suppliers with updated license information to keep accounts active and eligible.
Support pharmacy requests for credit/replacement requests with product breakage/mishandling.
Coordinate buy-ins to fulfill contract rebate/incentives.
Leads Reverse Distribution (returns) practices for the purchasing team.
Tracks all credits/claims.
Process daily return credits.
Works with corporate accounting on financial tracking related to returns.
Update intranet purchasing resources (OCHO) as needed with purchasing guidance.
Monitors and processes 340B order requests.
Works cross-functionally within organization on necessary reports.
Supports Drug Supply Chain Security Act (Track and Trace) practices for the purchasing team.
Ensures appropriate linkage with trading partners and Option Care.
Supports data pulls as required related to purchase records for FDA/State Agency inspections.
Maintains confidentiality of patient and proprietary information.
Observes legal and ethical guidelines for safeguarding the confidentiality of patient and proprietary Option Care information.