About this role
Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.
Your experience matters
Wilson Medical Center is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. The Supply Chain Coordinator supports the hospital’s daily operations by managing inventory, purchasing supplies, coordinating with vendors, and ensuring departments have the materials needed to provide quality patient care. Working closely with Materials Management leadership and hospital departments, this role helps maintain regulatory compliance, control costs, and improve supply chain efficiency.
As a Supply Chain Coordinator joining our team, you’re embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier ®. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve. This role is 100% on site in Wilson, NC.
More about our team
Our Supply Chain team plays an important role in supporting patient care by making sure supplies and equipment are in the right place at the right time. Team members help keep hospital departments stocked and organized, ensuring staff have what they need to care for patients. In this fast-paced environment, you’ll work closely with others, respond to day-to-day needs, and help keep things running smoothly behind the scenes. Attention to detail, teamwork, and a willingness to learn are key to success in this role. From stocking supplies to delivering items and keeping inventory up to date, the team makes a meaningful impact on the overall patient experience.
How you’ll contribute
A Supply Chain Coordinator who excels in this role:
- Supporting patient care: Coordinating materials management and purchasing activities to ensure hospital departments have the supplies and equipment needed to deliver safe, efficient, and uninterrupted patient care.
- Managing inventory and product availability: Maintaining appropriate inventory levels, ordering and stocking supplies, monitoring expiration dates, conducting cycle counts and year-end inventories, and proactively addressing backorders to ensure product availability.
- Optimizing purchasing and vendor partnerships: Collaborating with vendors and suppliers to research products, obtain samples, evaluate purchasing options, secure competitive pricing, and ensure compliance with established contracts.
- Maintaining accurate supply chain systems and records: Utilizing systems such as SMART, Paragon, GHX, and MMIS to process purchase requests, maintain item records, update inventory information, reconcile order discrepancies, and support efficient procurement.
- Ensuring regulatory compliance and safety: Supporting product recalls, maintaining required documentation, and following hospital policies and regulatory standards related to infection prevention, hazardous materials, life safety, and patient safety.
- Partnering across hospital departments: Working closely with clinical and nonclinical teams, department managers, and Materials Management leadership to research supply needs, resolve issues, and provide timely, responsive customer service.
- Identifying opportunities for improvement: Assisting with special projects, reviewing supply usage and purchasing activity, and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, control costs, and optimize resource utilization.
- Contributing to a collaborative team environment: Supporting daily department operations, assisting with supply deliveries and purchasing office functions as needed, and cross-training in key responsibilities to promote effective teamwork and continuity of service.
Schedule: Full-Time: Days; 100% On-Site in Wilson, NC.
Why join us
We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:
- Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage options for full-time and part-time employees.
- Financial Protection & Paid Time Off: Life, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance, along with short- and long-term disability, paid family leave, and PTO.
- Financial & Career Growth: Tuition assistance, certification support, student loan assistance, and a 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Employee Well-being: Programs supporting mental, physical, and financial health, including gym memberships, virtual care, mental health services, and employee discounts.
- Professional Development: Ongoing learning opportunities and career advancement support.
- Lifestyle Perks: Travel and entertainment discount programs to help you make the most of your time off.
What we’re looking for
- High school diploma or equivalent required; associate’s degree preferred.
- Minimum of two years of experience in materials handling, purchasing, inventory management, or a related field; healthcare supply chain experience preferred.
- Proficiency with computers and related software, with the ability to learn and navigate inventory management, purchasing, and materials management systems.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to maintain accurate inventory records, process purchase orders, reconcile discrepancies, and manage multiple priorities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships with vendors, hospital departments, clinical staff, and leadership.
- Strong problem-solving skills, initiative, and sound judgment, with the ability to work independently, adapt to changing priorities, and manage competing demands in a fast-paced healthcare environment.
- Demonstrated teamwork and customer service skills, with a collaborative approach to supporting coworkers, responding to departmental needs, and maintaining positive working relationships.
- Ability to follow hospital policies, purchasing procedures, regulatory requirements, and safety protocols, as well as meet the physical demands of the role, including lifting and transporting materials weighing up to 75 pounds.
More about Wilson Medical Center
Wilson Medical Center is committed to always providing excellent care to our community. Our 294-bed facility provides services to residents of Wilson County and surrounding communities. Our commitment to high-quality healthcare is strong. We bring new and innovative programs to those who matter the most - our community. Accredited by The Joint Commission, we offer services including cancer care, cardiac care, orthopedics, imaging, surgical services and many more.
EEOC Statement
“Wilson Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Wilson Regional Medical is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.”
Equal opportunity and affirmative action employers and are looking for diversity in candidates for employment: Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran