Materials Management Coordinator

Blue River Surgery Center; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Wellbeing support

Time off & disability

401(k) match

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Blue River Surgery Center in Kansas City, MO, is seeking a Materials Management Coordinator to manage instrument and supply purchases, PAR levels, and inventory, supporting cost efficiency and patient care.

You will work with regional managers, handle accounts payable, supplier contracts, and biannual inventories, ensuring accurate records and timely payments. This role offers the chance to contribute to a growing, community-focused healthcare group with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of experience in a medical office setting (ambulatory surgery center, hospital, or doctors office) preferred.
• Minimum 1 year of experience in materials management.
• Some accounting or bookkeeping experience helpful.

Responsibilities

• Works with the Regional Materials Manager or Market Materials Manager assigned to the market.
• Responsible for center supply expense management.
• Establishes and maintains levels and related controls of supplies and equipment for the Center.
• Responsible for purchases for the Center as necessary, utilizing purchase orders and checking orders received for accuracy and completeness.
• Prepares goods for return as appropriate and responsible for shipment of all goods from the Center.
• Restocks inventory as needed.
• Establishes and maintains PAR stock levels in all areas, with the cooperation of staff members.
• Maintains knowledge base and utilization of contract pricing, keeping current.
• Responsible for and oversees the biannual inventories, including accuracy of counts and their input into SMART.
• Processes accounts payable, matching billing to invoices, coding and processing in conjunction with the business office manager.
• Confers with physicians and nursing staff on special products or equipment needs and initiates trial use if indicated.

Skills

Materials management

Medical office experience

Accounting / bookkeeping

Job description

Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As a Materials Management Coordinator with Blue River Surgery Center you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving back!

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Materials Manager Coordinator contributes to the company’s mission, vision, and values by ensuring instruments, supplies, and equipment purchased are researched to maximize cost effectiveness; maintaining accurate and complete records concerning ordering, receiving, and payment for such in a timely and cost-effective manner; operating independently as well as cooperatively; maintaining professional and effective working relationships with teammates; and demonstrating knowledge and skills necessary to support superior patient care.

What you will do in this role:

• Works with the Regional Materials Manager or Market Materials Manager assigned to the market.
• Responsible for center supply expense management.
• Establishes and maintains levels and related controls of supplies and equipment for the Center.
• Responsible for purchases for the Center as necessary, utilizing purchase orders and checking orders received for accuracy and completeness.
• Prepares goods for return as appropriate and responsible for shipment of all goods from the Center.
• Restocks inventory as needed.
• Establishes and maintains PAR stock levels in all areas, with the cooperation of staff members.
• Maintains knowledge base and utilization of contract pricing, keeping current.
• Responsible for and oversees the biannual inventories, including accuracy of counts and their input into SMART.
• Processes accounts payable, matching billing to invoices, coding and processing in conjunction with the business office manager.
• Confers with physicians and nursing staff on special products or equipment needs and initiates trial use if indicated.

Qualifications you will need:

• Minimum (1) year of experience in a medical office setting highly preferred. (i.e. ambulatory surgery center, hospital, doctors office) preferred.
• Minimum (1) year of experience in materials management.
• Some accounting/bookkeeping experience helpful.

Benefits

Blue River Surgery Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefitsfor medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support,including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from workprograms for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education supportthrough tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefitsfor fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Blue River Surgery Center is the newest member of the Surgery Ventures Group powered by HCA Healthcare opening in early 2024. This state-of-the-art facility will include five operating rooms and two specialty procedures rooms. The center will be staffed by a skilled team of registered nurses and OR techs. Our specialties will include orthopedics, GI, podiatry, general and vascular surgery. The Center is located in South Kansas City near I-435 and Holmes.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated 3.7 billion in costs for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

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We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.