Supervisor Operations

Overview

Saint Joseph Hospital is a 433-bed facility located in Lexington Kentucky. Founded in 1877 a small group of Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Kentucky led by Sister Euphrasia Stafford began their health ministry. Their mission was to provide compassionate care to the poor and underserved – a tradition still carried out today. Saint Joseph Hospital primarily serves central and eastern Kentucky with a full range of services including distinguished awards for cardiology orthopedics and stroke care. CHI Saint Joseph Health supports 5000 active employees 8 hospitals specialty clinics and a Medical Group with more than 200 locations across Central and Eastern KY. CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health in 2019. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.

Responsibilities

Primarily responsible for leading a team and assisting manager or director in the coordinating, supervising, and evaluating all supply distribution functions for an assigned facility or facilities within CHI’s system.  Responsible for managing appropriate inventory levels, supply expense, distribution, shipping, receiving, and stocking of medical supplies of given facility/facilities and providing stewardship of contract compliance.  Additional responsibilities include training, coaching, and professionally developing subordinates.

Essential Key Job Responsibilities

1. Assists manager and/or director in providing supervision, guidance, and support of all inventory and logistics function
2. Manages inventory levels to assure that supplies are ready and available for patient care
3. Works collaboratively with staff as necessary to coordinate contract implementation and product conversions
4. Supervises individuals including but not limited to: assigning work, evaluating performance, and providing feedback
5. Actively leads training, team huddles, and one-on-one coaching
6. Ensures inventory and logistics team provides a high level of service and accountability to clinical staff
7. Oversees and monitors reports/metrics
8. Works directly with contracting team, value analysis, project leads, senior leaders, department leads, buyers, and data analysts to ensure projects are supported and implemented.
9. Other duties as assigned by management.

Qualifications

Minimum of three (3) years’ experience in Supply Chain within a health care system or other relevant experience

Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 1 year experience in the discipline  OR 3 years’ experience in the discipline OR Master’s Degree and no experience

 

Prefer Medical Supply Experience/or experience working in the OR

Established leadership skills

Knowledge of coaching and mentoring best practices

Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Project, Access, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint

Strong written and oral communication skills

Ability to influence and motivate others in order to achieve targets within a determined time period

Ability to prepare quick pointed summaries for executives and stakeholders

Ability to deal with conflict and difficult people

Knowledge of automated ERP systems and processes

Ability to process and present data clearly

Team management and/or project management preferred. Education requirement waived for employees with relevant supply chain experience.

Pay Range
$18.74 - $25.77 /hour