Pharmacy Contact Sourcing Specialist - Full-Time Days - Detroit - Elijah McCoy

PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Serves as a liaison to inpatient and ambulatory clinic leaders to monitor and communicate medication purchase and distribution discrepancies with aid to resolution. Seeks out best pricing opportunities whenever available through approval channels and vendors. Serves as the primary resource for the application-specific creation of user IDs and passwords specific to the pharmacy purchasing software application. Maintains User IDs in user database/server and collaborates with area leaders on integrity of users. Maintains vendor and drug database with additions and deletions of medications and or vendors within the pharmacy purchasing software application. Orders pharmaceuticals and related supplies that are necessary for supporting pharmaceutical care within an integrated health system. Meets with pharmaceutical vendors, distributors and providers and ensure all pricing is accurately reflected and loaded for the system. Reviews and processes purchase requisitions that can include both expense and capital requests. Confers with requesters regarding specifications, delivery requirements, and other special needs. Resolves discrepancies between receipts and purchase order requirements. Resolves invoice discrepancies and probable causes of non-payment. This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and duties. It should be understood, therefore, that employees may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described above.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Bachelor's Degree in Materials Management, Health Administration, Accounting, or related field, or the equivalent in work experience (equivalent experience accepted as four (4) years of pharmacy technician in a hospital or ambulatory setting).Three-five (3-5) years of experience involving medication procurement, pharmacy sourcing and medication inventory management in a health care setting required. Pharmacy technician experience strongly preferred. Knowledge and/or understanding of 340b preferred. Strong computer skills and working knowledge of Microsoft Office products required Additional Details This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described above.

Overview: Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services – from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford's care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation's most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus. Learn more at henryford.com/careers .

Benefits: The health and overall well-being of our team members is our priority. That's why we offer support in the various components of our team's well-being: physical, emotional, social, financial and spiritual. Our Total Rewards program includes competitive health plan options, with three consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), a PPO plan and an HMO plan. Our team members enjoy a number of additional benefits, ranging from dental and eye care coverage to tuition assistance, family forming benefits, discounts to dozens of businesses and more. Employees classified as contingent status are not eligible for benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer: Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer Henry Ford Health is committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of all individuals without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, size, height, weight, marital status, family status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and genetic information, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.