Baptist Health is looking for a Buyer to join our team! This is a remote work position that requires residency in KY or IN
As part of the Service Delivery Center for Supply Chain at Baptist Healthcare System in Louisville, KY., this position is responsible for acquisition of standard products, equipment, and services respective of procedural, clinical and non-clinical operations. This position is responsible for PO creation, expediting orders, open order follow-up, standard non-catalog item ordering, alternate item identification and invoice discrepancy management. Confirms all purchase orders to ensure product will be delivered and invoiced correctly and timely. The Buyer supports the Accounts Payable process by resolving discrepant invoices and working with facilities to receive product. This position also supports end-user and department needs through facilitation of bill-only POs. This position provides the highest level of customer service in a prompt manner and will make significant contributions to supply chain management from a service and quality perspective. The incumbent will take an active role with their customers on proactive supply chain management tactical activities to achieve excellence in supply chain
Qualifications:
Associate degree with a minimum of 1 year experience in a diverse and operationally complex procurement environment with specific experience in supply chain management and/or purchasing.
In lieu of degree 3 years progressively responsible procurement or customer service experience.
Demonstrated experience in advancing a genuine customer-centered attitude to the supply chain function, and the capacity to incorporate that philosophy in user-friendly services working collaboratively with clinicians, physicians, and stakeholders in an interdisciplinary service environment.
Knowledge of medical/surgical supplies, equipment and services preferred
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
