Purchasing Agent
City of Hope
Duarte, CA
Job posting number: #7292298 (Ref:10027715)
Posted: November 2, 2024
Salary / Pay Rate: $26.03 - $40.34 / hour
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
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.
Responsible for purchasing actions associated with assigned commodity groups and/or vendors. Purchases goods and services for City of Hope departments at the lowest cost consistent with accepted standards for quality and service. Assures that follow-up with suppliers is performed, ensuring compliance with prices and deliveries.
As a successful candidate, you will:
- Review approved requisitions for accuracy.
- Consult with customers to obtain technical information, specifications, and recommended vendors.
- Obtain and review any technical information available and contact vendors to obtain competitive bids items to be purchased.
- Select supply source that can provide the desired quality, prompt service, best price, GPO compliance, standardization, and technical integration with MMIS systems.
- Decide which type of purchase order should be awarded to qualified suppliers, standard, amount only, or scheduled.
- Assure that follow-up takes place on items purchased to assure timely delivery and correctness of receipts.
- Perform data entry, auto sourcing, purchase order acknowledgments, EDI Transactions, and match exceptions in PeopleSoft.
- Prepare reports on product research, standards and cost analysis to be discussed with the department to make final decision concerning vendor and price.
- Collaborate with Value Analysis and Systems Management teams to determine stock/non-stock, internally cataloged, and value analysis qualified products.
Your qualifications should include:
- High School Diploma
- 2 years hospital purchasing experience in PeopleSoft or similar Purchasing ERP systems
- Experience in Supply Chain or Procure to Pay process preferred
Additional Information:
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, please click here.
To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please CLICK HERE
Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $26.03 - $40.34 / hour
The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.
City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.
