Supply Chain Solutions Analyst

At Owens & Minor, we are a critical part of the healthcare process. As a Fortune 500 company with 350+ facilities across the US and 22,000 teammates in over 90 countries, we provide integrated technologies, products and services across the full continuum of care. Customers—and their patients—are at the heart of what we do.

Our mission is to empower our customers to advance healthcare, and our success starts with our teammates. 

Owens & Minor teammate benefits include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, available on first working day

• 401(k), eligibility after one year of service

• Employee stock purchase plan

• Tuition reimbursement

LOCATION : Regional Onsite Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania- Zelienople

As a Supply Chain Service Analyst, you will be responsible for improving the order and receipt cycle with QSight, providing accurate data, running reports, inventory management, and maintaining the usage history to improve a product utilization. We are looking for an individual who is able to commute to the office full time, has QSight experience, familiar with relationship building, and works well in a team environment.

This position will be be working within hospitals primarily throughout the Pittsburgh region. We are looking for a teammate who resides within the Pittsburgh region.

Core Responsibilities

• Utilize QSight to develop user-friendly forms, reports, documentation and processes that support inventory management, purchasing, ordering and receiving procedures.

• Utilize QSight to support each Department by providing product information for monitoring, controlling, and tracking utilization trends.

• Utilize QSight to provide management reports necessary to help the Departments manage supplies as follows:

• Will identify Key Performance Indicators ("KPIs”) that Customer requires. At the request of Customer, will create a monthly report ("KPI Report") tracking savings opportunities including but not limited to items such as purchasing volume, inventory value, expiring product, obsolescence, price reductions, payment reconciliation consigned versus owned comparisons, and charge capture (where applicable).

• Establish an appropriate inventory control by utilizing QSight direct order entry.

• Maintain usage history to enhance a product utilization monitoring and control program.

• Improve the order and receipt cycle through the use of QSight.

• Help to reduce and/or eliminate redundancies in the supply chain.

• Help to increase the inventory tum rate.

• Provide data upon request to help maximize contract compliance for products used in the Departments.

• Provide the appropriate information to assist in product standardization and the vendor reduction process.

• Utilize QSight to help improve Accounts Payable processing of invoices and procedural charges.

• Where applicable, help identify optimal storage design for supply storage in the Departments. Identify alternatives based on storage space constraints within each Department.

• Plan and conduct periodic departmental inventory audits. Perform annual optimization analysis and communicate recommendations to Department stakeholders.

Additional Responsibilities

• Assist with the coordination and management of cycle counts and annual physical inventory.
• Maintain electronic data files as necessary in the technology platform, including minimum and customer units of measure, consignment inventory and lot/expiration date tracking.
• Assist training clinical staff on use of the technology platform. May be required to act as “site administrator” for technology platform.
• Comply with customer’s policy regarding monitoring and complying with product recall notices.
• Participates in and implements projects that involve the supply chain processes at customer sites.
• Identifies product, service and process-related cost-saving measures utilizing hospital databases, benchmarking studies and technology assessments and other hospital resources.
• Leads cost reduction and efficiency implementations and projects by applying technical knowledge and expertise (software specifications, hardware requirements, inventory management systems, clinical process workflows).
• Serves as a liaison between hospital/system administration/departments, medical staff, Owens & Minor sales representatives and management in order to ensure cost-effective utilization of products, services and processes.
• Communicates the status of programs or projects to customers and project team members in a timely manner.
• Maintain various electronic files. Generates data and reports for customers and project team members. Performs recommended back-up procedures of electronic files to ensure project or programs are properly maintained.
• Develops appropriate back-up procedures of key databases that contain critical programs or project information.
• Troubleshoots and resolves technology issues as needed.
• Participates in customer presentations with the sales force when needed. Educates and trains hospital staff on how to use QSight.
• Assists with onsite Logistics support such as gathering customer data, product sizing and storeroom slotting as needed.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree, required, Healthcare Information Technology preferred or related field
• Minimum, three (3) years of work experience, required, in a health IT setting, in Med-Surg technology, materials management, project management in healthcare and/or a large-size hospital or multi-hospital environment, preferred.
• Or any combination of education and experience to meet the above requirements.

May provide onsite Inventory Management Services to support our Clinical Inventory Management Program agreements to include performing physical counts, generating/placing orders, product put-away and stocking location maintenance, including on-site organization and corresponding data file maintenance.

Where applicable, actively participates in the Hospital Value Analysis Council and related activities.

If you feel this opportunity could be the next step in your career, we encourage you to apply. This position will accept applications on an ongoing basis.

Owens & Minor is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, religion, disability, age, status as a veteran, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law.