Pharmacy Buyer

At Ivinson Memorial Hospital we are committed to excellence, trust, healing, and integrity. We pride ourselves in providing compassionate, world-class care to our community. At Ivinson we offer a competitive total rewards package including; full medical, dental, and vision insurance, retirement plans, paid time off and tuition reimbursement opportunities. Ivinson aims to improve the care provided for our patients and create a work-life balance for our employees by creating a culture of transparency, teamwork, accountability, and trust.

Base salary starts at $25.33/hr.

E S S E N T I A L F U N C T I O N S

• Completes daily ordering on Mondays through Fridays.
• Works with Pharmacy Director and staff to manage drug shortage and outage situations; communicates to other departments as necessary.
• Establishes minimums and maximums and ordering processes for the department.
• Attends quarterly business reviews with Cardinal to assess contract compliance, drug spend trends and inventory turns.
• Addresses or explains budget variances and attends meetings with executive team as necessary.
• Works as Pharmacy Tech staff as required.
• Determines most appropriate source(s) of information for medication histories and utilizes them to create Best Possible Medication Histories (BPMH).
• Creates Standard Work processes for collecting Medication Histories and revises continually.
• Acts as primary person responsible for collecting Medication Histories for patients being admitted to inpatient units during working business hours.
• Reviews Medication Histories collected by others (Pharmacy Techs, Nurses) outside of working business hours.
• Identifies improvement opportunities as they relate to particular individuals or shifts and works with the appropriate managers/supervisors to create plans for improving identified challenges.
• Other duties as assigned.

• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.

• One (1) year experience in a hospital pharmacy setting preferred.
• Experience in inventory manager preferred.

• Must be a certified Pharmacy Technician or a certified Pharmacy Technician in Training by the Wyoming State Board of Pharmacy.

• Strong mathematical skills.
• Excellent customer service skills, including but not limited to: a friendly personality, tact, patience, empathy and a helpful, professional attitude both in person and on the telephone.
• Ability to effectively communicate with staff, managers and the general public verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrate effective listening skills.
• Excellent organization and time management skills and ability to establish priorities effectively.
• Possess exceptional problem solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively without immediate supervision.
• Ability to learn new computer software programs.
• Ability to recognize and protect confidential information.
• Demonstrate ethical and legal accountability for the position.