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Eskenazi Health

<div></div><div><p><b>Date: </b>Aug 26, 2025
</p><p><b>Location:</b> Indianapolis, IN, US
</p><p><b>Organization: </b>HHC
</p><div><p><b>Division:</b>Eskenazi Health</p>
<p><b>Sub-Division:</b> Hospital</p>
<p><b>Req ID:</b> 24081</p><br>
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<p><b>Schedule</b>: Full Time</p>
<p><b>Shift</b>: Days</p><br>
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<p>Eskenazi Health serves as the public hospital division of the Health &amp; Hospital Corporation of Marion County. Physicians provide a comprehensive range of primary and specialty care services at the 333-bed hospital and outpatient facilities both on and off of the Eskenazi Health downtown campus including at a network of Eskenazi Health Center sites located throughout Indianapolis.</p><br>
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Non-Exempt</p>
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Job Role Summary</b></h2>
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The Pharmacy Procurement Specialist is responsible for day-to-day inventory management, including placing and receiving medication and supply orders, ensuring 340B Program compliance, and responding to shortages and inventory recalls.</p>
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Essential Functions and Responsibilities</b></h2>
</div><div><ul><li>Performs all duties with a focus on safety, recognizing that safety is our top priority; evaluates compliance with established medication safety procedures; offers suggestions to improve medication safety based on best practice (e.g. ISMP); routinely documents medication errors; promotes an environment with a constant focus on medication safety</li><li>Performs the following technical skills: procures pharmaceuticals and associated supplies for pharmacy and ancillary departments; prioritizes efforts to prevent delays in patient care; optimizes medication inventory to ensure adequate stock levels to meet patient care needs, improve department workflow and efficiency (e.g. reduce stock-outs), and prevent inventory expiration; analyzes purchasing data to identify trends; forecasts drug utilization and availability; ensures accurate inventory quantity-on-hand counts; coordinates cost containment efforts with pharmacy management by reducing expired medications, improving inventory turns, and proactively identifying opportunities for cost savings (e.g. generic utilization); understands and consistently utilizes all information systems; maintains databases and strictly adheres to established systems change control process to ensure database integrity and alignment of systems; audits the accuracy of electronic medications lists, updates default dispense medications, and ensures new medications are properly added to pharmacy workflow; manages inventory in response to drug shortages and supply issues; responds to inventory recall notifications and appropriately documents activities; establishes, implements, and monitors expired medication monitoring and removal procedures; responsible for all loan/borrow transactions and associated follow-up and record keeping; maintains appropriate and accountable inventory records; batches procurement receipts/invoices and issue receipts for processing; prepares for and directs inventory audits; assists with 340B Program audits and accumulation corrections</li><li>Performs the following regulatory compliance responsibilities: ensures constant state of readiness for The Joint Commission, DEA, Board of Pharmacy, Board of Health, FDA, HRSA, and all other regulatory bodies; ensures compliance with established inventory procurement, distribution, tracking, storage, returns, and auditing policies and procedures; ensures compliance with established group purchasing agreement, purchasing contracts, and 340B Program policies and procedures; directs questions or compliance issues to Pharmacy Procurement Supervisor; evaluates compliance with established policies and procedures related to the management of high-alert, look-alike/sound-alike, controlled-substance, and hazardous medications</li><li>Works with a sense of urgency to assist customers and encourages the same sense of urgency in others; resolves crisis situations in a calm, constructive, and professional manner</li><li>Works collaboratively with multidisciplinary team members to provide patient-centered care</li><li>Remains up to date on departmental processes by attending staff meetings, reviewing meeting minutes, and reading email communications</li></ul><br>
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Job Requirements</b></h2>
</div><div><ul><li>Completion of a high school education or equivalent required</li><li>Bachelor&rsquo;s degree preferred</li><li>Two years of experience controlling pharmacy inventory required</li><li>Licenses/Certification required: Pharmacy Technician License in the State of Indiana</li><li>CPhT certification through the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board preferred</li><li>Successful completion of Eskenazi Health Pharmacy Technician Training Program within 122-day probationary period</li><li>Participation in continuing education activities to meet licensure and certification requirements</li></ul></div></div><div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b><br>
Knowledge, Skills &amp; Abilities</b></h2>
</div><div><ul><li>Knowledge of medication classes, pharmaceutical terminology, abbreviations, symbols; knowledge of manufacturing, packaging and labeling of drug products, use of pharmaceutical instruments and equipment; knowledge of metric system/mathematical calculations; knowledge of 340B Program regulations</li><li>Ability to manage multiple software systems and evaluate their performance in meeting organizational needs</li></ul></div></div></div><br>
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<p>Accredited by The Joint Commission and named as one of Indiana&rsquo;s best employers by Forbes magazine for two consecutive years and the top hospital in the state for community benefit by the Lown Institute, Eskenazi Health&rsquo;s programs have received national recognition while also offering new health care opportunities to the local community. As the sponsoring hospital for Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services, the city&rsquo;s primary EMS provider, Eskenazi Health is also home to the first adult Level I trauma center in Indiana, the only verified adult burn center in Indiana and Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center, the first community mental health center in Indiana, just to name a few.</p><br>
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<b>Nearest Major Market: </b>Indianapolis</p></div></div><div></div>

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