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Product Mgr Martinez, CA

Coordinates all activities to support implementation & manage supply cost of all Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) agreements for medical supplies & equipment. Service area responsibility includes all departments within the hospital & medical offices. Assists w/ the management of materials cost & utilization of best practices. Ensures compliance w/ all (GPO) agreements. Responsible for achieving all Service Area & National Contracting & Purchasing (NCAP) cost savings goals. Works w/ the materials director to identify & achieve cost savings & implement safety products.
Essential Functions:
Supports National Contracting & Purchasing (NCAP) & Service Area goals including:
- Manages & facilitates adherence to $1billion annual GPO contract spend.
- Identifies & implements product utilization savings to achieve annual utilization savings goal. Compliance monitoring, analyzing, & reporting to achieve 98.50% compliance to all Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) agreements.
- Implements all GPO agreements within NCAP 90 day goal to maximize cost savings.
- Manages medical product formulary exception process.
- Assists in reducing overall supply cost through analyzing product use & making recommendations to change product or implement best practice
- Conducts & facilitates service area & statewide product evaluations.
- Participates on National Sourcing & Standard Teams (SST).
- Works closely w/ GPO Product Managers to manage, implement, & enforce compliance to all agreements.
- Project Manager taking a lead role in managing all activities to effectively implement all group purchasing
Organization (GPO) contracts including:
- Supports implementation of $55M annual GPO contract spend for NCAL Region.
- Identify Service Area scope & impact of conversion.
- Develop service area wide & statewide implementation project plan. Facilitate education & in-service
- Manage timeline to meet NCAP goal.
- Identify & implement product utilization & cost savings.
- Conducts trend analysis & compliance reporting.
- Supports annual supply cost savings goals of Supply Cost Oversight Group (SCOG) by consulting, communicating, & implementing recommendations.
- Working w/ physicians & managers, analyzes & organizes key information necessary to influence product use, enforce standards, & control spend.
- Conducts research into & recommends corrective action for supplier & product issues.
- Supports physicians & other health care provider peer groups in standardization efforts.
- Actively participate & present key information to the Local Product Councils, Regional Product Council, Physician groups, Material Services & Perioperative Cost Savings groups to comply w/ & enforce national standards, trend spend, identify & implement cost savings opportunities.
- Conducts data analysis to evaluate practice patterns. Ensure excellent customer satisfaction levels maintained.




Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years experience in combination of material management or other related areas, including previous experience with material management operations & systems.
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, nursing background &/or certification, finance, material management, economics or related field; or equivalent experience.
- Experience in a healthcare environment with specific knowledge of medical & non-medical products preferred.
- Professional certification such as a Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM) preferred.
- Proficient in a variety of software applications with the ability to develop complex spreadsheets & write business communications.
- Strong communication, presentation, & project management skills.
- Significant knowledge of products/services & their market environment.
- Ability to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment

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