Company:
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Address:
1515 Holcombe Blvd
Houston, TX 77030 USA

Mgr, Materials Management

Req Number: mdac-00032480
Salary: $54800.00 - $82200.00
Work Week: Mon-Fri
Shift: Days


Description:

• Responsible for day-to-day operations for section/area includes personnel administration, procurement and/or requisitioning, interviewing, counseling and disciplinary action.
• Determine staffing requirements, and interview, hire and train new employees, or oversee those personnel processes.
• Prepares and conducts periodic and annual performance reviews for assigned personnel.
• Monitor employee attendance (including unauthorized overtime, tardiness, absences, and no lunch) and clocking patterns (failure to clock in/out) via the Kronos log.
• Performs routine QI to determine personnel competencies and operational efficiencies.
• Establish and implement departmental policies, goals, objectives, and procedures, collaborating with other members of the leadership group, institutional policy, and staff members as necessary.
• Enforces policies, rules, and procedures within Materials Management Services.
• Assumes varied administrative and management responsibilities, including budgetary control.
• Issues instructions and guidance, and takes corrective action where necessary.
• Responsible for departmental orientation and in-service training of charge and staff personnel; monitors progress of the employees; ensures that an adequate number of trained staff are available.
• Manage staff, preparing work schedules and assigning specific duties.
• Monitor operations to ensure that they efficiently and effectively provide needed services while staying within budgetary limits.
• Compiles and prepares reports with regard to inventory, productivity, and personnel.
• Conducts routine environmental rounds both inside and outside of the department to identify operational inconsistencies and safety violations.
• Address issues that relate to department maintenance and upkeep.
• Report needed repairs to appropriate department.
• Maintains environment in assigned area in compliance with hospital standards and accrediting agencies.
• Provides weekly status reports on ongoing projects, environmental rounds and staffing concerns.
• Conducts inventory of supplies, linen and equipment and prepares purchase plan for replenishment as necessary due to exhaustion of useful life and/or new technology.
• Exhibits excellent customer service with internal and external customers and interacts with customers to identify concerns and effect resolutions.
• Serve as liaison between assigned areas and other support services (i.e. Facility Services, Clinical Engineering, TMC Laundry, Prime Distributors).
• Effectively manage assigned projects from initiation to implementation and participate on projects and/or committees, as required.
• Assume departmental on-call coverage to include weekends/holidays.


Education Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Healthcare Administration or Business related field.


Experience Required:

• Three years of managerial experience in customer service, personnel management, inventory management, business logistics or financial analysis.
• May substitute required education degree with additional years of equivalent experience on a one to one basis.


Experience Preferred:

• Six years of progressive managerial experience with understanding of customer service, supply chain operations, and business logistics functions for MDACC and/or a company within the health care industry.


Licenses and Other Requirements:

Preferred:

• APICS certification (Certified Supply Chain Professional) within 18 months of hire.
• Possession of a valid Texas driver's license of the appropriate classification.


Physical Requirements:

• Strength and stamina sufficient to maintain a rigorous work schedule which may require driving, continuous physical exertion and frequent heavy lifting, hearing and speaking via two-way radio, in person or on the telephone, seeing to read, prepare, and proofread documents, perform assigned duties.
• Sitting or standing for extended periods of time, dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a vehicle, computer keyboard and other office equipment.
• Kneeling, bending at the waist, and reaching overhead, above the shoulders and horizontally, to retrieve and store files and supplies, to load and unload trucks, frequent lifting of heavy objects.