Hybrid Purchasing Officer - Pharmacy presso Cabrini

Purchasing Officer - Pharmacy

Permanent Full Time position

Cabrini Malvern

Cabrini offers:

• Attractive salary + 12.5% superannuation

• Tax savings - Salary packaging up to $15,900 tax-free each year, plus $2,650 meal & entertainment card benefits​

• 17.5% annual leave loading

• Significantly discounted staff car parking available as well as discounted Myki passes for staff

• Discounts to hospital services and retail offers

• Professional development opportunities

• Excellent workplace culture in a mission based, values driven organisation

About the role

Cabrini’s Procurement & Supply Team oversees the management of sourcing and purchasing activity across the organisation with established processes to provide efficient access to the goods and services required for our staff to deliver high quality care to patients. The Purchasing Officer is responsible for the effective, efficient and cost effective management of pharmaceutical spend purchase orders for Cabrini Health. This role requires a candidate who will provide excellent customer service to all stakeholders and ensure a direct line of communication with service managers and vendors is maintained.

Your day will look a little like this:

• Responsibility for purchase orders associated with operating theatre consumable categories

• Managing purchase orders through to closure

• Assist and support ensuring fit for purpose and fair priced goods and services are obtained in a timely manner

• Competitively quote all requisitions where no contracted substitute exists ensuring compliance with company policies

• Ensure the confidentiality of pricing details

• Tracking order activity and alert appropriate staff of any potential delivery problems, expedite the delivery of selected orders

• Liaise with suppliers as required to ensure orders are delivered in full and on time

• Analyse data for special reporting as required by management

• Reconcile invoices, managing variances, discrepancies, returns and credits

• Assisting with stocktakes when required

About you

The successful candidate will have well developed analytical and problem solving skills as well as the following:

• 1-3 years of relevant purchasing experience (healthcare sector in a medium to large multi-site organisation and/or experience in an acute hospital setting required

• Experience utilising iPharmacy advantageous

• Ability to effectively interact with healthcare suppliers

• Well developed commercial/negotiating/influencing skills with the ability to finalise negotiations within tight deadlines

• Ability to prioritise workflow in accordance with conflicting demands

• Demonstrated effective interpersonal and communication skills (verbal, written and presentation)

• Willingness to be accountable and accept responsibility

• Competency in the use of Microsoft programs (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint etc.)

• The ability to apply high ethical standards and represent the organisation in a professional manner

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Does this sound like your new role? Bring your skills and enthusiasm to Cabrini Health and help optimise the patient experience and health outcomes for our community.

Cabrini Health acknowledges the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is core to our mission.

As part of our commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Working for Cabrini

Cabrini Health is a Catholic, private, for-purpose health service located in Melbourne’s southeast. Inspired by the mission and ethic of care of the Cabrini Sisters, providing quality, compassionate care to our community for more than 75 years.

There is something special about Cabrini Health. Our highly skilled staff and specialists incorporate clinical research, innovative models of care and state-of-the-art technology to deliver the best possible care and outcomes for our patients. We demonstrate our mission to serve our community through outreach programs that support asylum seekers, provide healthcare in rural communities and in underdeveloped countries.

Our size, reputation and growth strategy ensure genuine opportunities for our people to learn, grow and realise potential.

Our values: Compassion - Integrity - Courage - Respect

MANDATORY FOR ALL NEW STAFF TO CABRINI

Employment with Cabrini Health will be based on satisfactory background checks such as professional references, National Police Check, vaccinations for annual Influenza plus a Working with Children Check (WWCC) may also be requested. Vaccination for COVID-19 is highly recommended.