Procurement Assistant - Supply Chain
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Location
Type, TX | United States
Job description
Procurement Assistant
Job Summary
Works under direct supervision to provide administrative knowledge and skills related to procurement of supplies, materials, equipment, or services for Purchasing Department or for department vested with delegated procurement authority.
Why UT Southwestern?
With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. At UT Southwestern, we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development to align with your future goals and to provide security for you and your family. Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you’ll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and a life-changing career!
Experience and Education
- High School graduation or GED.
- One (1) year of experience within a Purchasing environment or equivalent combination and experience.
Job Duties
- Oversees the Return to Vendor (RTV) process for all goods being returned from University Hospitals and Hospital Based Clinics.
- Assists Buyers with resolving Purchasing Department discrepancies in the three-way match process with the Receiving Department and the Accounts Payable Department.
- Assist Materials Management Operations team with the return of goods to vendors.
- Acts as liaison with Purchasing department for RMA’s and Vendor Returns (RTV).
- Acts as liaison with the Accounts Payable department for RMA’s and Vendor Returns (RTV).
- Acts with urgency and communicates promptly with staff regarding vendor returns.
- Reviews Return to Vendor requests daily to proactively resolve any open and outstanding RTVs.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- Work requires exercise of moderate judgment in application and interpretation of policy, procedures, or precedents to problems of well-defined nature.
- Work requires personal contact with others outside the department to effect the final determination of problems of a recurring but non-routine nature.
- Must possess effective personal computer skills.
The following is the acronym, “PACT”, and is fundamental to all clinical positions at UT Southwestern Medical Center:
- P-Problem Solving: To achieve excellence in patient care and service, all employees are expected to take ownership in solving problems effectively, efficiently and to the satisfaction of the patient.
- A-Ability, Attitude and Accountability: In keeping with a professional healthcare environment, all employees are expected to have the ability to perform their jobs and to appear and conduct themselves in a professional and positive manner.
- C-Communications and Compassion: It is our goal that all our communications are clear, courteous, timely, and delivered with compassion, respect, and appropriate confidentiality.
- T-Teamwork: In our medical environment, our patients regard every employee they encounter as a member of the UT Southwestern Medical Center team. Our goal is to individually work hard to contribute to our team, support our co-workers, and to achieve not only excellent patient care and service, but also a satisfying, caring environment for each other.
This position is security-sensitive and thereby subject to the provisions of Texas Education Code §51.215.
UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status. To learn more, please visit:
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