Corporate Procurement Agent

Shriners Children’s Hospital; États-Unis; À distance; USD 70 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Shriners Children's seeks a Corporate Procurement Agent to manage hospital supply purchases, negotiate with vendors, and ensure contract compliance. You will interface with hospital departments, manage urgent orders, and support value analysis initiatives across the supply chain.

The role requires strong MS Office skills, deep knowledge of purchasing practices, and experience with ERP systems. Remote within the United States with collaboration across facilities.

Qualifications

• 5 years of hospital supply chain experience.
• MS Office Suite proficiency.
• Knowledge of Purchasing, Inventory, Contracting, Logistics, A/P Finance, and Value Analysis.

Responsabilités

• Directs the purchasing of all hospital supplies independently.
• Interacts with vendors and hospital departments to communicate pricing, availability, and delivery.
• Coordinates and supports repairs, returns and cancellations of orders as needed.
• Leads negotiations with vendors to ensure competitive pricing and contract compliance.
• Maintains professional vendor relationships and sources pricing and contract-related issues.
• Executes emergency purchase orders when time-sensitive due to patient needs.

Connaissances

Hospital supply chain experience

MS Office Suite

Negotiation

Vendor relations

Formation

High School Diploma/GED

Associate's Degree or equivalent

Outils

Lawson 10/Workday ERP

Description du poste

Corporate Procurement AgentWe collect and process your data on this site to better understand how it is used. You can give your consent to all or selected purposes, or you can decline them all. For more information, see our privacy policy.# Shriners Children's## Corporate Procurement AgentApply: Remote: Remote - United States: Full time: Posted Yesterday: JR102636**Company Overview** Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families. With 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family’s ability to pay or insurance status. Please click here to learn more about our locations. **CURRENT EMPLOYEES**: Please log into Workday Click Here to apply internally through the \"Jobs Hub\" **Job Description** The Corporate Supply Chain Procurement Agent is responsible for the complete and accurate procurement of stock and non-stock items per assigned manufacturer or vendor while ensuring proper pricing is attained and that all incentives, terms and other benefits, including return on investment, are maximized throughout the enterprise. The position makes independent decisions regarding item and vendor selection while assuring a seamless and timely transmission of all emergent, supply and service purchase order requests while working collaboratively with Contracting and Legal representatives. The Procurement Agent participates in maximizing company operation efficiency and financial gains by monitoring the data integrity of the product and vendor formularies across the organization for consistency in description, pricing, unit of measure, etc. and alerts the appropriate party with any discrepancies. The Procurement Agent will support the capital management and equipment sourcing process as well as be an intricate part of the Value Analysis process. The Procurement Agent will assist the Value Analysis Chair in facilitating the Enterprise Value Analysis Committee (EVAC). The Procurement Agent will gather data to support corporate metrics, analytics and exercise discretion and independent judgment to make decision and recommendations. The Procurement Agent is responsible for driving contract compliance by utilizing our Group Purchasing Organization to source product inquiries to maintain contract compliance and standardization initiatives, to ensure overall cost reduction and enterprise-wide cost savings based on predefined enterprise strategic goals and performance metrics. The Procurement Agent plays a key role in the company’s Purchasing functions to collaboratively implement sourcing strategies that deliver best total value for the organization as well as identifying and reporting risks to protect the organization’s mission and reputation. The Procurement Agent strives to minimize expenses and increase company profitability, develop detailed purchasing reports, and recommend changes to the acquisitions processes as needed. Purchasing Agents are in charge of buying goods, services, and operations equipment for their organization, as well as analyzing financial reports identifying trends or discrepancies. **Key Responsibilities:*** Independently directs the purchasing of all hospital supplies. Performs order placement and interacts with vendors and SHC hospital departments regarding purchase orders to communicate pricing information, product availability and delivery, as well as coordinates and supports repairs, returns and cancellation of orders as necessary. Ensures requests are processed in a timely and accurate manner (within 24hrs).* Assumes ownership of customer needs and initiates effective interaction considering service, outcome and cost at all times* Works with minimum direction or supervision to accomplish all of the duties delegated by the Supply Chain Inventory & Purchasing Team Lead and Corporate Supply Chain Management Director.* Leads negotiations with vendors to ensure that goods and services purchased are priced competitively and that all contracts or pricing agreements are followed.* Analyzes requests for item adds and recommends changes; researches and addresses concerns, problems and issues and presents findings to management.* Establishes and/or maintains professional vendor relationships by interfacing with them regarding sourcing, pricing and contract related issues* Contributes to and supports ongoing efforts to identify, recommend and implement new systems or processes that add end-user value, goals and metrics, enhance the procurement process and improve customer satisfaction* Resolves exceptions – discrepancies between the vendor's price and SHC's price of record, and quantities e.g. backorders* Executes emergency purchase orders, which are time-sensitive due to specific patients' needs. **Required Qualifications:*** 5 years of hospital supply chain experience* MS Office Suite proficiency* Knowledge of key activities within supply chain organization including Purchasing, Inventory Management, Contracting, Logistics, A/P Finance, and Value Analysis* Knowledge of hospital equipment and supplies and purchasing practices.* Knowledge of basic accounting principles.* High School Diploma/GED* Associate's Degree - or sufficient number of years of job-related experience may be considered in lieu of an Associate's Degree **Preferred Qualifications:*** Lawson 10/Workday ERP Preferred* AHRMM (Association of Healthcare Resource Materials Management) Certified Material Resource Professional Compensation is determined based on years of relevant experience and departmental equity.