Purchasing Coordinator, USA Healthcare
iSTA Solutions
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: South Africa
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About the role
- Receive and review purchase orders submitted by healthcare facilities through the system, ensuring budget compliance, availability (including backorders), appropriateness, and alignment with purchasing trends before processing.
- Manage and resolve tickets for non-catalogue items by communicating with facilities, sourcing required products, obtaining ownership approval, and completing the purchase process.
- Monitor facility equipment rentals by tracking usage, ensuring items are not misused, maintaining rentals at minimum required levels, and coordinating timely returns.
- Process electronic invoices within the system by matching them to purchase orders and syncing with the accounting software; investigate and resolve any discrepancies or mismatches.
Requirements
- Knowledge of purchasing or procurement processes.
- Exposure to healthcare facilities, Long-Term Care (LTC) facilities and Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs)
- Comfortable navigating systems and software.
- Working knowledge of MS Office and Outlook, Excel skills required.
- **Key Skills**
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving ability.
- Logical judgment and attention to detail.
- Ability to think “outside the box” and apply concepts across scenarios.
- Fast learner with quick mental processing.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
purchasing processesprocurement processesinvoice processingbudget complianceproduct sourcingequipment rental managementdiscrepancy resolutiondata matchingcritical thinkingproblem-solving
Soft skills
written communicationverbal communicationattention to detaillogical judgmentorganizational skillsadaptabilityfast learningcreative thinking