Manager

Job Title: Manager

Location: Cooperman Barnabas Medical Ctr

Department Name: Distribution

Req #: 0000270998

Status: Salaried

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year

Pay Transparency:

The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

A Typical Day

Supply Chain OR Managers, including titles of manager or operations manager, oversee supply chain operations related to the hospital’s perioperative and surgical services department. This role ensures the timely availability of surgical supplies and implants while maintaining cost efficiency, inventory accuracy, regulatory compliance, and uninterrupted support for surgical services. The OR supply chain manager collaborates with nursing leadership, clinicians, vendors, and supply chain leadership to optimize surgical supply utilization and operational performance. This position manages direct reports. Manage daily perioperative supply chain operations to ensure uninterrupted availability of surgical supplies, implants, tissues, and specialty products. Maintain optimal inventory levels using utilization data and analytics to support operational and clinical needs.

Oversee inventory control processes, including product expiration monitoring, stock rotation, cycle counting, and compliance with FIFO practices. Partner with OR leadership, clinical teams, and schedulers to ensure timely case preparation and support emergency, urgent, and add-on procedures. Collaborate with Supply Chain Clinical Resource Management to address product conversions, backorders, shortages, recalls, and patient-specific supply requirements. Ensure compliance with enterprise tissue tracking, implant management, and recall policies; monitor tissue storage and inventory integrity. Investigate and resolve ERP inventory discrepancies and supply-related issues in collaboration with operational leadership. Monitor, analyze, and improve key performance indicators (KPIs), inventory utilization, spend, waste, and operational efficiency. Lead physician preference card optimization initiatives to improve standardization, inventory management, and cost-effectiveness. Supervise, develop, and evaluate perioperative supply chain staff; establish work assignments, schedules, performance expectations, and accountability standards.

Conduct regular departmental rounding, audits, and documentation activities to support regulatory, accreditation, and patient safety requirements. Partner with the Site Supply Chain Director and perioperative leadership to achieve departmental goals, enhance service levels, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

To Be Considered

Required:

• High School Diploma required
• Three to five years of healthcare supply chain or perioperative services experience as well as managerial experience.
• Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: Reading and writing in English
• Basic math skills required

Schedule Requirements:

• Day Shift

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Benefits and Perks:

At RWJBarnabas Health, our market-competitive Total Rewards package provides comprehensive benefits and resources to support our employees’ physical, emotional, social, and financial health.

• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Medical and Prescription Drug Insurance
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Retirement Plans
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Life & Accidental Death Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Wellness Programs
• Voluntary Benefits (e.g., Pet Insurance)
• Discounts Through our Partners such as NJ Devils, NJ PAC, Verizon, and more!

Choosing RWJBarnabas Health!

RWJBarnabas Health is the premier health care destination providing patient-centered, high-quality academic medicine in a compassionate and equitable manner, while delivering a best-in-class work experience to every member of the team. We honor and appreciate the privilege of creating and sustaining healthier communities, one person and one community at a time. As the leading academic health system in New Jersey, we advance innovative strategies in high-quality patient care, education, and research to address both the clinical and social determinants of health.

RWJBarnabas Health aims to truly make a unique impact in local communities throughout New Jersey. From vastly improving the health of local residents to creating educational and career opportunities, this combination greatly benefits the state. We understand the growing and evolving needs of residents in New Jersey - whether that be enhancing the coordination for treating complex health conditions or improving community health through local programs and education.

Equal Opportunity Employer