Specialty Supply Chain Specialist (Inventory & Vendor Ops)

Nicklaus Children's Health System; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 47,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Nicklaus Children's Health System is seeking a Specialty Supply Chain Coordinator to manage supply stock in a specialty department, nurture vendor relationships, and coordinate requisitions, returns, and consignment activities. The role includes maintaining inventory levels, reviewing new products, and ensuring accurate transactions.

You will establish PAR levels, rotate stock, track expiring goods, and support lean initiatives while keeping supply areas clean and organized.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of specialty area healthcare experience.
• Associate's degree highly preferred.
• Able to communicate effectively in English with vendors and clinicians.
• Demonstrates ability to use an ERP system.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for supplies and materials in assigned specialty department or procedure area.
• Builds and maintains relationships with clinical and non-clinical customers in assigned specialty area to ensure needs are being met, understands when product changes are needed, and obtains updates on new procedures or physician changes.
• Establishes and maintains PAR levels for items stocked in the specialty area, rotating stock so that first in is also first out, ensuring proper shelf labels are in place, and removing any expired goods.
• Actively participates in performance improvement activities, value analysis projects, lean initiatives, and supply chain cost reduction initiatives related to assigned specialty department.
• Initiates supply return requests and ensures items are ready for pickup and return.
• Collaborates on product recall activities for assigned specialty area, ensuring affected products are pulled from use and packaged for return, completing required functions in the recall process.
• Ensures that staff is aware of new items or product changes, substitutions, back orders and out of stock supplies as well as changes to storage locations.
• Coordinates with procurement to resolve issues, source products and equipment, and set up training needed to support staff.
• Collaborates on product trial and evaluations in conjunction with procurement and/or Value Analysis.
• Ensures the proper accounting of tissue and maintains tracking records in the tissue tracking system per OR tissue tracking policy.

Skills

Communication skills

Inventory management

Independent worker

Education

Associate's degree

Tools

ERP system

Job description

Nicklaus Children's Health System is seeking a Specialty Supply Chain Coordinator to manage supply stock in a specialty department, nurture vendor relationships, and coordinate requisitions, returns, and consignment activities. The role includes maintaining inventory levels, reviewing new products, and ensuring accurate transactions.

You will establish PAR levels, rotate stock, track expiring goods, and support lean initiatives while keeping supply areas clean and organized.