Total 234 Purchasing / Procurement / Inventory job vacancies in SITE - Butterworth Hospital - 100 Michigan St - Grand Rapids

• Applies inventory management and supply planning operations expertise to balance supply to meet forecasted demand by generating secondary item supply action recommendations.
• Plans, develops, implements, and manages effective and affordable product supply support strategies throughout the life cycle for weapons, materiel, or information systems, as addressed in applicable policy/regulatory guidance.
• Leads team in identifying, distributing, and balancing workload and tasks among employees per established workflow, and skill level and/or occupational specialization and making adjustments to accomplish the workload.
• Supports the weapon system manager in the development and document the supply support strategy, in applicable documentation, IAW policy and regulatory guidance.
• Articulates and communicates to the team the assignment, project, problem to be solved, actionable events, milestones, and/or program issues under review, and deadlines and time frames for completion.
• Leads team in identifying, distributing, and balancing workload and tasks among employees per established workflow, and skill level and/or occupational specialization and making adjustments to accomplish the workload.

• Serve as a Senior Inventory Management Specialist with the responsibility for coordinating all required efforts internal and external to the Command to maintain combat readiness and sustainability.
• Responsible for developing, defending, and monitoring all necessary plans/programs to insure adequate funding for support of the assigned system(s) and customers’ requirements.
• Represents the Command and provides critical decisions at all meetings involving assigned weapon system(s).
• Serve as a Weapon System Manager responsible for fielding weapon systems.
• Serve as a Commodity Manager coordinating efforts to supply a complete system including all repair parts to a customer.

• Serves as the Supervisor of the Acquisition Procedures Division (APD) and as the Chief of the Contracting Office (CCO) for the Directorate of Acquisition Management.
• Serves as the procurement technical expert for initiatives such as designing and implementing a quality assurance process for reviewing pre/post contracting files.
• Preparing/creating/analyzing metrics for internal/external reporting and maintenance of pertinent records.
• Provides oversight of acquisition and contract administration execution.
• Leading, participating, establishing and maintaining a Policy Office.
• Ensures that procurement rules, regulations, and guidance documents are created and maintained.
• Ensures that contracting clauses and local operating procedures are promptly disseminated to acquisition personnel.

Duties:
This position utilizes knowledge of policies and procedures for delivery orders and small purchases and knowledge of commercial supply sources and common business practices related to sales, prices, discounts, units of measurement, deliveries, stocks, and shipments. The Purchasing Agent maintains responsibility for work leading to the purchase of a wide variety of complex and highly specialized services, supplies, equipment, and systems that support the full range of programs and activities. Major duties and responsibilities include:

• Purchasing Support - Conducts purchasing under the micro purchase threshold; reviews and edits purchase requests; resolves issues to ensure requests and bills are processed accurately and in a timely manner; identifies needs or problems and determines corrective action; utilizes federal and agency acquisition regulations to identify possible sources and other pertinent information related to purchases; tracks obligations/commitments and monitors expenditures to support recurring budget forecasts and identify potential fraud, waste and abuse based on procurement history and purchase trends; and,
• Procurement Support - Procures supplies and services to meet the purchase, rental, or lease needs of the organization; develops unique selection criteria for each purchase; Prepare and issue contract modifications for changes in delivery schedule and sends formal correspondence to a variety of customers such as inventory management specialists, other service line contacts, and contracting officers as appropriate for the purposes of auditing documents, processing receiving reports, and payments.; conducting open market research and sole source small purchases for highly specialized medical items with critical product requirements; and,
• Administrative Support - Serves as the first line of contact for medical staff and customers in regard to procured items; develops reports and spreadsheets, obtains, organizes, files and retrieves reports for briefing and presentation purposes; performs a variety of receptionist, timekeeping, record keeping and miscellaneous duties in medical facility; and,
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

The duties of the position may include but, are not limited to:

• Manages and controls an assigned class of expendable material for a VA HCS and supported catchment area.
• Recognized as an authority on expendable (EX) commodity management and serves as a subject matter expert to all services and service lines.
• Drivers License is required. DO NOT submit a photo copy of the License, a driving record will be requested once selected.
• Inventories managed include a wide variety of expendable items and durable medical equipment (DME) which may or may not be available through the Medical/Surgical Prime Vendor (MSPV) program or other negotiated or Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts.
• Acts as a central point of contact for the coordination of commodity support and the resolution of logistics problems across organizational lines.
• Acts as a focal point for new EX supply procedures
• Makes decisions and commitments for the medical center on medical/surgical supplies that materially affect the VA HCS ability to provide medical care to Veterans.
• Researches opportunities for and conducts analysis of potential cost savings , efficiencies, and process improvements using quantitative analysis and historical usage patterns.
• Utilizes performance measures to conduct forecasting and quantitative analysis.
• Develops Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's).
• Conducts short, mid and long-term advanced planning for expendable items and DME, utilizing enterprise wide computerized planning tools.

• Develop and defend long range plans, programs, and budgets for assigned weapon systems.
• Provide research for long-term and special projects, analysis, interpretation and implementation of policies and guidelines relative to Major Item management.
• Develop and implement plans and studies for material acquisition, material change management, distribution, and related inventory management activity on assigned systems.
• Develop and implement new concepts in automated systems within a specific logistical business supply area to include: logistics data management, depot maintenance, major items distribution/redistribution and Propositioned Stocks or War Reserve.
• Brief recommendations for material requirements and/or planning to senior leadership.
• Develop concisely written messages, briefings and/or papers to inform leadership and/or influence decisions.