St. Luke's Health System

At St. Luke’s, we pride ourselves on fostering a workplace culture that values diversity, promotes collaboration, and prioritizes employee well-being. Our commitment to excellence in patient care extends to creating an environment where our team can thrive both personally and professionally. With opportunities for growth, competitive benefits, and a supportive community of colleagues, St. Luke’s is truly a great place to work.

Under moderate direction, the Buyer is responsible for purchasing and negotiating materials, equipment, and supplies from assigned suppliers.

What You Can Expect

•  Supports strategic sourcing execution with timely and accurate purchase order processing and appropriate follow-up of orders for materials, services, and capital.
• Creates customized purchase orders in partnership with a variety of specialized stakeholders across the health system. Analyzes and optimizes purchase orders across a spend category.
• Performs professional work with knowledge and experience in own discipline; still acquiring higher level knowledge and skills.
• Builds knowledge of the organization, processes, and customers to solve a range of straightforward problems; analyzes possible solutions using standard procedures.
• Under the direction of sourcing manager, sources alternative commodities from suppliers at the lowest cost consistent with considerations of quality, reliability of supplier and urgency of need.
• Supports stakeholder management and business needs analysis with clear understanding of stakeholder working environment and establishing and maintaining positive and professional internal customer relationships.
• Demonstrates an intermediate understanding of supplier capabilities, commercial agreements, and principles of Supplier Relationship Management (SRM).
• Maintains purchase documentation and ensures purchase order data integrity for audit purposes. Provides research information on root cause errors to support avoiding future discrepancies. Resolves discrepant invoices and performs critical tasks in multiple ERP systems.
• Works with SLHS finance teams and other stakeholders at the hospitals to resolve procurement issues with normal and specialized orders.
• Supports the collaborative relationship with Sourcing, Contracting and other Supply Chain departments as needed.
• Identifies and communicates product/equipment standardization and cost savings. Manages and reports out on one or more strategic purchasing metrics.
• Escalates and resolves supplier performance issues. Works with other supply chain leaders to communicate supplier performance issues during business reviews.
• May train or mentor others, acting as the first point of escalation.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree or experience in lieu of degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree or experience in lieu of degree
• Experience: Two (2) years' relevant experience

At St. Luke’s, caring for people in the communities we serve is our mission – and this includes our own SLHS team. We offer a robust benefits package to support our teams both professionally and personally. In addition to a competitive salary and retirement plans, we ensure our team feels supported in their benefits beyond the typical medical, dental, and vision offerings. We care about you and have fantastic financial and physical wellness options, such as: on-site massages, on-site counseling via our Employee Assistance Program, access to the Personify Health Wellness tool, as well as other formal training and career development offerings to ensure you are meeting your career goals.

St. Luke’s is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by law.

*Please note: this posting is not reflective of all job duties and responsibilities and is intended to provide an overview to job seekers.