Role & responsibilities

1. Hospital Operations Responsibilities

- Pharmacy operations: Manage the day-to-day functioning of the hospital pharmacy.
- Staff management: Allocate duties, supervise pharmacists and support staff, and monitor staff performance.
- Inventory management: Maintain appropriate stock levels of medicines, surgical items, and other pharmacy supplies.
- Quality and safety: Ensure proper storage, handling, dispensing, and documentation of medicines.
- Regulatory compliance: Ensure pharmacy operations comply with applicable laws, hospital policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Coordination: Coordinate with doctors, nurses, administration, finance, stores, and other departments.
- Patient service: Ensure medicines are available and supplied to patients accurately and promptly.
- Cost control: Monitor pharmacy expenses and identify opportunities to reduce wastage and unnecessary expenditure.
- Expiry and wastage control: Monitor near-expiry and expired medicines and ensure appropriate disposal.
- Reporting: Prepare and review reports on consumption, stock, purchases, shortages, and pharmacy performance.
- Process improvement: Develop and implement SOPs and improve workflow, efficiency, and patient safety.
- Emergency preparedness: Ensure availability of essential and emergency medicines.

2. Purchase Manager Responsibilities in Pharmacy

- Purchase planning:



Estimate medicine and medical-supply requirements based on consumption, patient volume, and stock levels.
- Vendor management: Identify, evaluate, and maintain relationships with approved suppliers.
- Quotation and price comparison: Obtain quotations and compare prices, quality, payment terms, and delivery schedules.
- Purchase orders: Prepare and process purchase orders according to hospital procedures.
- Negotiation: Negotiate prices, discounts, credit terms, delivery schedules, and other commercial conditions.
- Supplier quality: Ensure suppliers provide medicines and products meeting required quality and regulatory standards.
- Timely procurement: Prevent stock-outs by ensuring medicines are purchased and delivered on time.
- Inventory coordination: Coordinate with pharmacy/store personnel to maintain optimum inventory levels.
- Expiry management: Follow appropriate purchasing and stock-rotation practices to minimize expiry losses.
- Documentation: Maintain purchase records, invoices, purchase orders, quotations, and vendor documents.
- Budget control: Monitor procurement expenditure against the approved pharmacy budget.
- Supplier performance: Monitor vendor delivery time, product quality, shortages, and service levels.
- Audit support: Maintain proper procurement records for internal and external audits

Preferred candidate profile

* Male - Immediate Joiners Prefered

📌 Pharmacy Purchase and Operational Manager - SRM Group Ramapuram (Chennai)
🏢 SRM Institute of Science and Technology
📍 Chennai