Officer, Procurement (BRAC Healthcare Ltd.)
Responsibilities & Context
- Manage end-to-end procurement requisitions, RFQs, comparative statements, and purchase orders in strict compliance with BHL policies, approval thresholds, and audit requirements.
- Identify, onboard, and maintain a vetted supplier base across pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, consumables, and non-pharma categories, with semi-annual performance evaluations, contract management, and negotiations.
- Ensure pharmaceutical procurement complies with DGDA regulations through licensed channels; coordinate with pharmacy teams on demand forecasting and stock reconciliation.
- Monitor expiry dates and enforce proper stock rotation, escalating near-expiry items promptly.
- Partner with diagnostic, laboratory, imaging, and dental teams to forecast demand and ensure uninterrupted supply of reagents, calibrators, and machine-specific consumables.
- Optimize par levels across lab and clinical teams to prevent stock-outs and reduce wastage.
- Maintain accurate inventory records and reorder points across all centers and the central store; conduct regular physical counts and reconcile variances.
- Identify slow-moving or dead stock and implement FEFO/FIFO practices across all storage locations.
- Conduct market analysis to benchmark pricing, identify new suppliers, and drive cost savings through strategic sourcing and bulk procurement.
- Evaluate product alternatives and present comparative cost-quality analyses to management.
- Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
- Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
- Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.
Compensation & Other Benefits
- Provident fund
- Festival Bonus: 2