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Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.\nWith 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family’s ability to pay or insurance status. Please click here to learn more about our locations.\nCURRENT EMPLOYEES: Please log into Workday Click Here to apply internally through the \"Jobs Hub\"\nJob Description\nThe Corporate Supply Chain Procurement Agent is responsible for the complete and accurate procurement of stock and non-stock items per assigned manufacturer or vendor while ensuring proper pricing is attained and that all incentives, terms and other benefits, including return on investment, are maximized throughout the enterprise. The position makes independent decisions regarding item and vendor selection while assuring a seamless and timely transmission of all emergent, supply and service purchase order requests while working collaboratively with Contracting and Legal representatives.\nThe Procurement Agent participates in maximizing company operation efficiency and financial gains by monitoring the data integrity of the product and vendor formularies across the organization for consistency in description, pricing, unit of measure, etc. and alerts the appropriate party with any discrepancies.\nThe Procurement Agent will support the capital management and equipment sourcing process as well as be an intricate part of the Value Analysis process.\nThe Procurement Agent will assist the Value Analysis Chair in facilitating the Enterprise Value Analysis Committee (EVAC). The Procurement Agent will gather data to support corporate metrics, analytics and exercise discretion and independent judgment to make decision and recommendations.\nThe Procurement Agent is responsible for driving contract compliance by utilizing our Group Purchasing Organization to source product inquiries to maintain contract compliance and standardization initiatives, to ensure overall cost reduction and enterprise-wide cost savings based on predefined enterprise strategic goals and performance metrics.\nThe Procurement Agent plays a key role in the company’s Purchasing functions to collaboratively implement sourcing strategies that deliver best total value for the organization as well as identifying and reporting risks to protect the organization’s mission and reputation.\nThe Procurement Agent strives to minimize expenses and increase company profitability, develop detailed purchasing reports, and recommend changes to the acquisitions processes as needed. Purchasing Agents are in charge of buying goods, services, and operations equipment for their organization, as well as analyzing financial reports identifying trends or discrepancies.\nKey Responsibilities:\nIndependently directs the purchasing of all hospital supplies. Performs order placement and interacts with vendors and SHC hospital departments regarding purchase orders to communicate pricing information, product availability and delivery, as well as coordinates and supports repairs, returns and cancellation of orders as necessary. Ensures requests are processed in a timely and accurate manner (within 24hrs).\nAssumes ownership of customer needs and initiates effective interaction considering service, outcome and cost at all times\nWorks with minimum direction or supervision to accomplish all of the duties delegated by the Supply Chain Inventory & Purchasing Team Lead and Corporate Supply Chain Management Director.\nLeads negotiations with vendors to ensure that goods and services purchased are priced competitively and that all contracts or pricing agreements are followed.\nAnalyzes requests for item adds and recommends changes; researches and addresses concerns, problems and issues and presents findings to management.\nEstablishes and/or maintains professional vendor relationships by interfacing with them regarding sourcing, pricing and contract related issues\nContributes to and supports ongoing efforts to identify, recommend and implement new systems or processes that add end-user value, goals and metrics, enhance the procurement process and improve customer satisfaction\nResolves exceptions - 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