Supply Chain Specialist

EyeSouth Partners•Atlanta, GA

4h•Onsite

About The Position

EyeSouth Partners, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, is an eye care physician services organization dedicated to partnering with leading physicians to build a premier network of eye care services throughout the Southeast. The clinical mission of EyeSouth’s partner practices is to provide high-quality medical and surgical specialty eye care. EyeSouth supports its affiliated practices and physician partners with capital, administrative resources, operating expertise, and strategic guidance, maintaining an absolute focus on clinical quality and a patient-first culture. The affiliate network comprises over 40 practices with more than 300 doctors, operating at over 175 clinic locations and 20+ ambulatory surgery centers across multiple states including Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky, Alabama, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, North Carolina, and South Carolina. EyeSouth Partners is actively recruiting for a Supply Chain Specialist to join its growing team. The organization offers favorable benefits and perks, and seeks individuals who can contribute to a best-in-class organization.

Requirements

A bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Finance, Supply Chain Management or related specialty.
3+ years of documented experience in supply chain, materials and vendor management, including experience with competitive procurement practices, contract analysis, and negotiation of goods and services.
Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to interact effectively and professionally with individuals at all levels; both internal and external.
Exercises sound judgment and logic in responding to inquiries; understands when to route inquiries to colleagues.
Self-motivated with strong organizational skills and superior attention to detail.
Ability to manage multiple tasks/projects simultaneously, many within inflexible time frames, through to completion.
Ability to adapt to frequently changing priorities.
A team player who develops strong collaborative working relationships with internal partners and can effectively engage with and build consensus among cross-functional teams.
Ability to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options through negotiation and implemented solutions.
Demonstrates well-developed and proven organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and time management skills in a dynamic environment working on multiple projects.
Proven ability to lead and develop a team and drive performance improvement, demonstrated by progressive increases in management responsibility.
Strong problem solving and negotiation skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a healthcare setting is preferred.
Prior experience with the Microsoft Dynamics 365 is strongly preferred.
Relevant professional certifications include: CPIM, CSCP, CPSM, CSCMP.

Responsibilities

Actively supports and refines the continued centralization of procurement processes and communicates current, required processes and responsibilities to all affiliated practice groups at time of integration and as needed thereafter.
Develops and professionally manages effective business relationships with products and services suppliers, as well as Provista, the Group Purchasing Organization (GPO).
Research potential new and/or alternative suppliers/products and initiates strategic business partnerships.
Uses independent judgement and discretion to select external vendors and negotiate product and/or services costs.
Ensures enterprise-wide needs for due diligence, risk assessment and continued vendor monitoring are being accomplished.
Independently determines the most appropriate method of acquiring goods and/or services by examining and evaluating the unique elements of each material request, including estimating the value, determining delivery requirements, and researching various sources of supply.
Tracks and reports key functional metrics related to the reduction of expenses and improved cost and service effectiveness.
Develops subject matter expert (SME) capabilities where the current procurement system is concerned and proactively refines and troubleshoots system capabilities, enhancing user experiences.
Continually reviews open purchase order receipts within the procurement system, for the purpose of three-way matching and submission to the AP Department for subsequent payment.
Tracks and monitors the status of open purchase orders within the procurement system, in order to respond to affiliate inquiries and to resolve problems.
Deploys the procurement system to newly affiliated practice groups, within the first sixty (60) days of affiliation.
Conducts in-depth reviews and analysis of both new and renewal supplier agreements/contracts, ensuring favorable terms, cancellation clauses and preferred legal language are contained within, as well as negotiating updates to said agreements, as required.
Corresponds with vendors and requests documentation or additional underlying support and responds to inquiries providing supporting documentation.
Maintains vendor agreements, contract and files, including W-9s, sales tax exemption forms, etc.
Reviews and expedites purchase orders and assists in the resolution of accounts payable problems.
Conducts market intelligence, related to product supply vendor financial, and performance research.
Assists (lead, where appropriate) on various projects designed to standardize and reduce overall cost through process improvement initiatives, in order to drive change throughout the organization.
Assists with the opening of new facilities and renovation of current facilities, by obtaining quotations, negotiating cost, tracking, and ensuring that the strategic team has the appropriate items needed.
Analyzes and prepares data to identify sourcing opportunities and support the Supply Chain strategy.
Research spend patterns across multiple service lines in order to identify additional savings opportunities for the organization.
Assists in the performance capital evaluations by conducting benchmarking, communicating with vendors, negotiating the evaluation agreements, determining the price impact to the organization as well as the value proposition.
Partners with managers on new product requests to determine product usage, initial cost, contract impact, and negotiate pricing if new product is accepted by the stakeholder team.
Contributes to the team effort by completing various, additional tasks and projects as needed.