Purchasing and Procurement Specialist

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Supply Manager to join our procurement team at Knox Private Hospital. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for managing the hospital's supply chain operations, ensuring the efficient and effective management of inventory, and implementing cost-saving measures.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the hospital's supply chain operations, including inventory management, procurement, and logistics.
• Develop and implement strategies to reduce waste, improve quality, and increase value in supply processes and operations.
• Work closely with the Group Procurement team to ensure that the hospital's service, quality, and value requirements are met by suppliers of medical consumables, prosthetics, and FF&E.
• Act as a valued member of an interdisciplinary team, promoting positive team culture, communicating and offering help to team members, and liaising with other staff as required.
• Maintain standards of customer service and ensure patient confidentiality and privacy are maintained at all times.
• Ensure compliance with and participation in the National Safety & Quality Healthcare Standards.

About You

We are looking for a candidate with:

• Previous experience in an acute hospital/healthcare setting, encompassing supply operations and administration, monitoring and reporting performance.
• Experience in managing medical consumables inventory, understanding all aspects of warehouse processes, including loading dock inwards and outwards goods.
• Proven experience in building and leading high-performing teams with a passion for customer service excellence.
• Proven ability to implement cost-saving and value improvement measures.
• Ability to consistently achieve labor management and other KPIs and work within the constraints of a financial budget.
• Effective change management and project management skills.
• Good attention to detail.
• High level of planning and organizational skills.
• Strong influencing skills with a demonstrated ability to adapt personal style to suit a varied audience and a variety of interpersonal styles.
• Well-developed oral and written communication skills.
• Advanced computer literacy and sound knowledge of computerized inventory/stores management and Microsoft Office, in particular, Excel.

Why Healthscope?

At Healthscope, we pride ourselves on working with talented, passionate, and caring people to ensure our patients receive the highest quality care and experience during their stay with us. We encourage the pursuit of continuous professional development and education and support our people to grow and flourish securely.

We are a family that supports each other, shares learnings, celebrates successes, and faces challenges together. Come and be the difference in our patients' lives.