Pharmacy Technician - Inventory Control 2

at  Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System

Purchases assigned, specialized commodities, equipment, and services for Pharmacy. The position is responsible for reviewing requests, working with vendors and facility departments; examining price, suitability, and availability of items or services while comparing specifications, and reviewing alternatives to request to fulfill value analysis or other objectives. This position relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals under minimal supervision and may lead/direct the work of others.

• Order Placing & Tracking
• Purchases supplies, materials, and pharmaceuticals for the pharmacy through a computerized system.
• Reviews orders to ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance with existing policies and procedures
• Ensures proper receipt and payment of received items. Forwards proper documentation to accounts payable.
• Resolves issues related to orders which include discrepancies of pricing, receiving, freight issues, service approvals and accounts payable discrepancies
• Works to minimize drug outages while minimizing drug inventory cost
• Negotiates to ensure non-contracted items are procured from the most cost effective source
• Facilitates transfer of drugs between pharmacies in emergent situations
• Vendor Relations
• Interviews potential vendors to evaluate services and capabilities
• Solicits bids from vendors and makes recommendations regarding the materials to be purchased to meet market conditions
• Manages vendor relationships and assists in building effective relationships.
• Research and Analysis
• Discusses defective or unacceptable goods or services with users, vendors, and others to determine source of trouble and identify corrective action.
• Researches product lines, prices, product sources, and other relevant information.
• Coordinates the semi-annual physical inventory of medications.
• Strategic and Lead Responsibilities.
• Actively seeks knowledge around operational excellence and regulatory updates, and actively shares knowledge with Buyer 1.
• Accountable for ensuring optimal inventory management including but not limited to monitoring inventory turns, active forecast of utilization changes with recommendations for stock and par adjustments, minimizing inventory waste, optimizing par and stock levels across pharmacy areas.
• Accountable for ensuring ongoing operational excellence and efficiency in the purchasing area including but not limited to developing standard operating procedures, educating team about standard operating procedures, auditing standard operating procedures.
• Serve as purchasing area lead and team mentor
• Accountable for maintaining relevant metrics and reporting to clinical and operational directors as appropriate.
• Assist clinical and operational directors with complex project development and implementation.
• Other Duties as Assigned
• Demonstrates continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, and streamline work processes.
• Other duties as assigned.
• 3 years of related experience required.
• Bachelor’s Degree required or 2 years experience with Associates degree or 4 years of related experience allowed for substitution of degree.

The Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System is a leading health care innovator in Louisiana and Mississippi. We bring together outstanding clinicians, the most advanced technology and leading research to ensure that our patients receive the highest quality and safest care possible.
This commitment is grounded in a history that is more than 100 years old, but reflected today by our strategic vision of transforming healthcare through superior performance and excellent patient care.

In the last fiscal year, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System had:

• 1,747 Licensed Beds
• 65,322 Discharges
• 44,592 OR Procedures
• 10,827 Full Time Employees
• 331,360 Inpatient Days

• 1,915 Active Medical Staff229,296 Emergency Visits

• As a nonprofit, mission-focused Catholic healthcare ministry, we give special attention to our citizens who are most in need. During the most recent fiscal year, we provided more than $39 million in unreimbursed care and community support to the underprivileged.
  Our health system is one of the largest in Louisiana, with hospitals, clinics and physicians located throughout Louisiana and in Mississippi. In fact, we provide care to almost half of Louisiana’s citizens, and serve in Mississippi’s largest metropolitan area. Because of our size and the partnerships we have with other local organizations, we are able to pool our resources and share cost and service efficiencies and learn from each other, thereby accelerating our ability to improve care and solve challenges.
  Since our founding in Monroe, Louisiana in 1911, we have been blessed by the guidance of the Franciscan Sisters. Through their guidance and steadfast example, we have committed to assure that we perpetuate their healing ministry for another hundred years. It is a noble purpose we strive to fulfill every day.
  Headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, we serve patients across Louisiana and Mississippi through a network of hospitals, clinics, physicians, elderly housing and integrated information system. Our health system has partnered with the State of Louisiana as it transforms its healthcare delivery system. The partnership includes inpatient acute care and primary care delivery in Baton Rouge and Bogalusa.
  Following in the footsteps of our founders, the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady, our team members and physicians are called to provide high quality care and compassion to all people, especially those most in need.
  As we look to the future of our healthcare ministry, we chart our course by “going where we are called.”

• Order Placing & Tracking
• Purchases supplies, materials, and pharmaceuticals for the pharmacy through a computerized system.
• Reviews orders to ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance with existing policies and procedures
• Ensures proper receipt and payment of received items. Forwards proper documentation to accounts payable.
• Resolves issues related to orders which include discrepancies of pricing, receiving, freight issues, service approvals and accounts payable discrepancies
• Works to minimize drug outages while minimizing drug inventory cost
• Negotiates to ensure non-contracted items are procured from the most cost effective source
• Facilitates transfer of drugs between pharmacies in emergent situations
• Vendor Relations
• Interviews potential vendors to evaluate services and capabilities
• Solicits bids from vendors and makes recommendations regarding the materials to be purchased to meet market conditions
• Manages vendor relationships and assists in building effective relationships.
• Research and Analysis
• Discusses defective or unacceptable goods or services with users, vendors, and others to determine source of trouble and identify corrective action.
• Researches product lines, prices, product sources, and other relevant information.
• Coordinates the semi-annual physical inventory of medications.
• Strategic and Lead Responsibilities.
• Actively seeks knowledge around operational excellence and regulatory updates, and actively shares knowledge with Buyer 1.
• Accountable for ensuring optimal inventory management including but not limited to monitoring inventory turns, active forecast of utilization changes with recommendations for stock and par adjustments, minimizing inventory waste, optimizing par and stock levels across pharmacy areas.
• Accountable for ensuring ongoing operational excellence and efficiency in the purchasing area including but not limited to developing standard operating procedures, educating team about standard operating procedures, auditing standard operating procedures.
• Serve as purchasing area lead and team mentor
• Accountable for maintaining relevant metrics and reporting to clinical and operational directors as appropriate.
• Assist clinical and operational directors with complex project development and implementation.
• Other Duties as Assigned
• Demonstrates continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, and streamline work processes.
• Other duties as assigned.
• 3 years of related experience required.
• Bachelor’s Degree required or 2 years experience with Associates degree or 4 years of related experience allowed for substitution of degree