Perioperative Supply Chain Lead — Inventory Optimization

Rush University Medical Center; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 63,000 - 91,000; Full time

Job summary

Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL, seeks a Manager, Perioperative Supply Chain Operations to lead and optimize inventory across surgical, procedural, and interventional areas. The role includes establishing and managing physical inventories in procedural patient care areas, ensuring supplies are available when needed while improving accuracy and cost efficiency across the health system.

You will lead and develop supply chain supervisors, analysts, and frontline teams, partnering with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (in lieu of degree, 3–4 years of supply chain leadership experience)
• Supervisory experience
• 2–3 years of healthcare supply chain leadership experience required
• Demonstrated ability to utilize Microsoft Office suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership, mentorship, and operational direction to supervisors, analysts, inventory teams, and supply chain technicians supporting procedural and perioperative operations.
• Maintains professional working relationships with vendor partners to ensure supplies are readily available for surgical procedures and consignment inventory is effectively managed.
• Interacts with clinicians to problem solving issues regarding purchase orders, credits, substitutes, and stock outs.
• Leads procedural inventory standardization initiatives across procedural areas and hospital sites to improve operational efficiency, reduce inventory variation, support Workday integration, and optimize supply utilization
• Responsible for establishing and managing physical inventories in the Procedural patient care areas within designated point of use systems, re-stock cabinets/carts, and other areas as assigned by management. Establishes appropriate Par levels for each stocking location.
• Oversees optimization and governance of procedural inventory technologies including RFID, QSight, Par Excellence, ERP integrations, and other automated inventory management platforms. Utilizes operational analytics and reporting tools to identify trends, support decision-making, and improve operational performance.
• Financial Accountability
• Attend monthly Value Analysis Committee meetings to support process improvement initiatives; and evaluate new surgical inventory to balance clinical effectiveness and financial sustainability.
• Identifies and implements cost reduction initiatives through inventory optimization, standardization, utilization management, and workflow redesign.
• Monitors and reports key operational and financial performance indicators including inventory turns, stockouts, expiration management, procedural supply utilization
• Participates in quarterly inventory audits to verify stock levels, ensure financial alignment, and maintain supply chain integrity
• Achieve department cost-reduction goals by identifying and eliminating underutilized and expiring supply chain inventory.
• Leadership Oversight
• Conduct staff interviews and execute hiring, disciplinary and performance management decisions in accordance with Human Resource policies and procedures.
• Ensures that employees are oriented to the department and hospital policies and procedures.
• Manage day-to-day operations and staff of the perioperative supply areas by preparing departmental work schedules, coordinate PTO requests and communicate changes to ensure that all duties and responsibilities are completed
• Maintains monthly Q-sight dashboard review with Supply Chain staff and conducts education in-services on a quarterly basis

Skills

Supervisory experience

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL, seeks a Manager, Perioperative Supply Chain Operations to lead and optimize inventory across surgical, procedural, and interventional areas. The role includes establishing and managing physical inventories in procedural patient care areas, ensuring supplies are available when needed while improving accuracy and cost efficiency across the health system.

You will lead and develop supply chain supervisors, analysts, and frontline teams, partnering with