Healthcare Procurement Buyer: Inventory & Supplier Lead

Paragon Care Philippines, Inc.; Makati; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Paragon Care Philippines, Inc. is seeking a procurement specialist to manage a vendor portfolio and oversee daily buying to meet service levels.

You will maintain inventory to provide a comprehensive product range with minimal stockouts, coordinating with vendors, warehouse, and demand planning to optimize fill rate and reduce slow-moving stock. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in a related field and 3–5+ years in procurement, with experience in healthcare.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field.
• 3–5+ years of experience in procurement.
• Forecasting experience required.
• Experience working within the healthcare industry.

Responsibilities

• Review and perform daily buying requirement using current Inventory systems.
• Complete daily buying within stipulated budget and before vendor's cut off time.
• Managing daily emails within deadline.
• Participation in rollout of purchasing requirements for new Customers (including tenders).
• Review daily open order report to ensure all overdue open orders ETA are up to date.
• Review daily item message report to ensure all OOS/Constrain flag are up to date to provide good guidance to external parties and protect fill rate accuracy.
• Liaise with Vendors on ETA's of orders, delivery date of lines unable to be supplied, short sent and code changes and update JDE accordingly.
• Liaise with warehouse receiving to manage stock received with short dating and discrepancy like short / damaged stock issues.
• Monitor supplier lead times and discuss/amend where necessary on all
• Manage all BDM, Customer Service, Stock Control and Receiving enquiries in a friendly, positive and timely manner.
• In conjunction with Demand planner, review and reduce Slow and Excess stock
• Other related duties as directed by Supervisor/Manager (launches/rollouts/tenders etc).
• Participate in the ISO/9001 Quality System training
• Ensure work performed is in accordance with the quality policy and manual and quality procedures, processes and work instructions associated with the ISO/9001 Quality System.

Skills

Procurement

Forecasting

Demand planning

Analytical ability

Budgeting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field

Tools

JDE

NetSuite

SAP

Job description

Paragon Care Philippines, Inc. is seeking a procurement specialist to manage a vendor portfolio and oversee daily buying to meet service levels.

You will maintain inventory to provide a comprehensive product range with minimal stockouts, coordinating with vendors, warehouse, and demand planning to optimize fill rate and reduce slow-moving stock. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in a related field and 3–5+ years in procurement, with experience in healthcare.