Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. 

This  position typically works Monday through Friday 6:00 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. with rotating weekend coverage.

The Materials Specialist is responsible for sustaining and overseeing medical and/or surgical supplies, and providing service and support to clinicians, physicians, and City of Hope departments to care for the patients we serve.

As a successful candidate, you will: 

• Have strong communication skills in-person, over the phone, and via email.

• Analyze item usage and cost to determine and adjust stock levels, reduce inventory cost, execute action on material phase-in and phase-out

• Work with Purchasing to obtain technical information, specifications, recommended vendors, understand backorder risks, determine substitute material availability, communicate risks or concerns to supply, manage open orders and RTV requests

• Review transactions daily to ensure supply issuances, receiving, inventory adjustments, and any other transactions are performed accurately

• Complete requisitions for supplies that are needed, and submit to Purchasing prior to cut-off time

• Execute daily inventory transactions (e.g. Receipts, transfers, fulfillments, adjustments, express issues, etc.) accurately and same-day

• Coordinate with purchasing, supply chain, receiving personnel, vendors and accounts payable personnel to resolve problems encountered with purchase orders.

• Execute cycle counts daily, expiration date management, cleaning and maintenance of inventory and bins, correct labeling and barcoding of inventory and inventory storage locations, and other actions maintenance on a regular cadence to ensure inventory accuracy and quality.

Your qualifications should include: 

• High School Diploma or equivalent

• 2 years of experience in Supply Chain/Materials department.

• Experience in hospital setting preferred

• Strong customer service, communication, and collaboration skills

• ERP experience (Peoplesoft strongly preferred)

Additional Information:

Job Status: Full time, exempt

Salary range: $68,640 - $76,502

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. 

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