A. MAHENDRA NAIK

Full-time 48hrs/wk, Series 9-5, Salary: 72k Gross

• Having experience in various facets of procuring materials.
• Overseeing supervising staff, allocating tasks and the daily operations of a pharmacy and Procurement coordinate with all staff for the day to day activities of pharmacy.
• Preparing the purchase Orders of Medicines, surgical items, OT consumables, Pharmacy, Lab, Operations and Stationary etc.
• Reviews and processes purchase orders.
• Effective Maintaining the supplier database, purchase records, and related documentation.
• Development of new vendors.
• Selects prospective vendors and negotiates contracts.
• Evaluating vendors & negotiating the quality, quantity, price, delivery schedule and terms and
  conditions with them.
• Maintains friendly, positive relationships & Good communication management skills with all stakeholders and staff.
• Planning and budgeting of purchase functions, involving cost estimation, rate contracts and inviting for bidding.
• Expertise in developing purchasing strategies like local vendors, reducing the cost of procurement of material.
• Ensures quality of procured items and addresses problems when they arise.
• Keeps up with trends in procurement and oversees purchase and implementation, as necessary.
• Travels to vendor locations.
• ABC classification of vendor's on the basis of criteria like cost, quality and time of delivery.
• Conducting trainings for vendors to educate them about requirements and help them in improving their performance.
• Coordinating with inventory control to determine and manage inventory needs.
• Setting up the weekly, monthly, quarterly procurement plan.
• Development of alternative local sources for materials which helps in cost saving.
• Implementing systems to avoid situations like over stocking or out of stock which cause production and financial losses.
• Developing reports on procurement and usage of material for top management review.
• Assist in the budget preparation and expense control activities.
• Keeps documentation and records accurate and up-to-date with latest data.
• Reviews inventory to eliminate unnecessary expenses and provide optimal stock levels.
• Recorded price histories, vendor relationship issues and purchasing document terms.
• Reviewed and negotiated existing agreements to optimize commercial terms.
• Performed monthly reconciliation of open purchasing orders.
• Purchased new products and oversaw inventory stocking and availability.

• Billing, Purchase, Purchase Entry, Sales Return.
• Supervising daily operations of pharmacy.
• Implementing Standard operating procedures within the warehouse or Pharmacy.
• Daily managing, monitoring, performance reviews / meetings, attitude, and interpersonal relationships addresses staff concerns in a professional and timely manner.
• Ensuring availability of drugs & medical supplies to all in-patients, out-patients and walk-in patients round the clock.
• Maintaining buffer stock of emergency medications at all times; training to Pharmacy regarding the same.
• Check daily level of stock and indenting daily to Main stores.
• Strict supervision & monitor of all incoming items & as well as outgoing items in the form of issues to internal customers & Retail Pharmacy and ensure entries in the system are up to date.
• Prepare the GRN and arrange the stocks should be placed in racks.
• Arrange for training all Pharmacy in good inventory control practices like ABC, LIFO/FIFO,VED, ROL & ROQ Lead time as well as LASA, high risk & emergency medications.
• Procurement, storage, issue & documentation of all Narcotic drugs as per statutory guidelines & hospital policy.
• Improve TAT for overall transactions happening in pharmacy.
• Nonmoving items and near expiry items should prepare monthly or quarterly. It should be valued and sent to the respective distributor. Credit note should be obtained.
• Preparation of Hospital Drug Formulary including Implants.
• Liaise with all doctors regarding Formulary use and ensure adherence to same.
• Initiating ongoing changes in the Formulary, like additions of new drugs & deletions of unused ones in PTC committee.
• Maintaining buffer stock of emergency medications at all times; training to Pharmacy regarding the same.
• Maintaining the stock material without any variance by conducting stock verification and documentation of stock audit should be maintained monthly.
• Monthly audit reports should be submitted to the higher authorities.
• Coordinate with HOD in developing pharmacy policies and procedures.
• Guide technicians and interns in their job duties.
• Maintain the pharmacy clean and organized.
• Take up responsibility of initiating new pharmacy store.
• Adherence to all Statutory & legal requirements of the department, valid & current licenses of all staff (inclusion of new recruits / deletion of those who have left the organization) & Pharmacy
  outlet & main stores as per Drugs & Cosmetics Act and be prepared for periodic inspections by drug controller.
• Keeping day to day track of all the current trends in the Industry & statutory gazettes like MRP changes, ban of drugs, scheduled drugs etc.
• Overall Pharmacy Inventory management and cost cutting.
• Periodical check of cash register and cash box in the pharmacy outlet and report discrepancies if any to the MD.
• Overall supervision of duty rosters and adherence to same, sanctioning of leaves, OT, offs & emergency leaves to ensure smooth functioning of the department at all times.
• Ensure Senior Pharmacist in charge of stores give day to day reports of Retail & Stores.
• Formation of the Drugs & Therapeutic Committee, arranging regular meets as Secretary, keeping the committee updated about the department policies & procedures inclusions/deletions to the
  drug Formulary on the basis of written requests with justifications from doctors.
• Recall of Medicines: Medicines with particles or discoloration should be recalled immediately from all departments by issuing a circular. The same should be reported to the concerned company or dealer after returning it.
• Local Purchase: Purchase from Local drug shop only with MOU which should be filed.
• Incident report: Any incident either with regard to staff or medicines (Eg: wrong medicines) incident report should be raised and reported to MD.
• Any other assignments as may be given from time to time by MD.
• Coordinated verification and filling daily prescriptions in high-volume Inpatient pharmacy environment
• Ordered medicines daily to ensure compliance with demands and needs
• Answered incoming phone calls and addressed questions from customers and healthcare providers
• Communicated with prescribers to verify medication dosages, refill authorizations and patient information
• Restocked automated medication dispensing equipment
• Provided information/request to providers.
• Calculated dosage, filled prescriptions and prepared prescription labels with absolute accuracy.
• Assisted with hiring, training and mentoring new staff members.
• Handled problematic customers and clients to assist lower-level employees and maintain excellent customer service.
• Monitored daily cash discrepancies, inventory shrinkage and drive-off.
• Tracked employee attendance and punctuality, addressing repeat problems quickly to prevent long-term habits.
• Reconciled daily sales transactions to balance and log day-to-day revenue.