Manager, Operating Room Supply Chain

RWJBarnabas Health; Tinton Falls (NJ); On-site; USD 65,000 - 91,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Retirement Plans

Medical and Prescription Insurance

Dental and Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Parental Leave

Tuition Reimbursement

Flexible Spending Accounts

Wellness Programs

Employee Discounts

Job summary

RWJBarnabas Health is seeking a Manager for the Monmouth Medical Center and Vogel Cancer Center Distribution Department in New Jersey. The role oversees perioperative supply chain operations, ensuring availability of surgical supplies and implants while maintaining cost efficiency and regulatory compliance.

You will lead a team, analyze KPIs, coordinate with nursing leadership and clinicians, and drive improvements in inventory utilization and patient safety.

Qualifications

• Three to five years of healthcare supply chain or perioperative services experience with managerial experience.
• High School Diploma or GED equivalent required.
• College degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily perioperative supply chain operations to ensure uninterrupted availability of surgical supplies, implants, tissues, and specialty products.
• Maintain optimal inventory levels using utilization data and analytics to support operational and clinical needs.
• Oversee inventory control processes, including product expiration monitoring, stock rotation, cycle counting, and compliance with FIFO practices.
• Partner with OR leadership, clinical teams, and schedulers to ensure timely case preparation and support emergency, urgent, and add-on procedures.

Skills

Healthcare supply chain

Staff supervision

Perioperative services

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Tools

Inventory management systems

Job description

Manager – Monmouth Medical Center, Vogel Cancer Center, Distribution Department (Full‑Time, Day shift)

Pay Range: $65,000.00 – $91,000.00 per year (anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey).

Job Overview

Supply Chain OR Managers, including those with titles of manager or operations manager, oversee supply chain operations related to the hospital’s perioperative and surgical services. This role ensures the timely availability of surgical supplies and implants while maintaining cost efficiency, inventory accuracy, regulatory compliance, and uninterrupted support for surgical services. The OR supply chain manager collaborates with nursing leadership, clinicians, vendors, and supply chain leadership to optimize surgical supply utilization and operation performance, manages direct reports, and delivers all clean linen exchange for the soiled linen carts to Nursing Units.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage daily perioperative supply chain operations to ensure uninterrupted availability of surgical supplies, implants, tissues, and specialty products.
• Maintain optimal inventory levels using utilization data and analytics to support operational and clinical needs.
• Oversee inventory control processes, including product expiration monitoring, stock rotation, cycle counting, and compliance with FIFO practices.
• Partner with OR leadership, clinical teams, and schedulers to ensure timely case preparation and support emergency, urgent, and add‑on procedures.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain Clinical Resource Management to address product conversions, backorders, shortages, recalls, and patient‑specific supply requirements.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise tissue tracking, implant management, and recall policies; monitor tissue storage and inventory integrity.
• Investigate and resolve ERP inventory discrepancies and supply‑related issues in collaboration with operational leadership.
• Monitor, analyze, and improve key performance indicators (KPIs), inventory utilization, spend, waste, and operational efficiency.
• Lead physician preference card optimization initiatives to improve standardization, inventory management, and cost effectiveness.
• Supervise, develop, and evaluate perioperative supply chain staff; establish work assignments, schedules, performance expectations, and accountability standards.
• Conduct regular departmental rounding, audits, and documentation activities to support regulatory, accreditation, and patient safety requirements.
• Partner with the Site Supply Chain Director and perioperative leadership to achieve departmental goals, enhance service levels, and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent required.
• Three to five years of healthcare supply chain or perioperative services experience with managerial experience.

Preferred

• College degree preferred.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off including Vacation, Holidays, and Sick Time
• Retirement Plans
• Medical and Prescription Drug Insurance
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Disability and Life Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Student Loan Planning Support
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Wellness Programs
• Voluntary Benefits (e.g., Pet Insurance)
• Community and Volunteer Opportunities
• Discounts Through our Partners such as NJ Devils, NJ PAC, Verizon, and more!

Equal Opportunity Employer