also be considered.

Role Purpose

To manage and optimize the hospitals operational expenditure (OPEX) supply chain, ensuring cost-effective procurement, inventory availability, vendor performance, compliance, and uninterrupted supply of medical and non-medical consumables and services.

Key Responsibilities

1. Procurement & OPEX Management

- Manage procurement of medical consumables, surgical items, general supplies, housekeeping materials, stationery, uniforms, engineering consumables, and other operational requirements.
- Monitor OPEX spend against approved budgets and identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Drive competitive quotations, negotiations, rate contracts, and annual purchase agreements.
- Implement initiatives to reduce procurement cost without compromising quality, patient safety, or service delivery.

2. Inventory & Materials Management

- Ensure optimum inventory levels across hospital stores and user departments.
- Monitor ABC, VED, FSN and XYZ analysis for effective inventory control.
- Track stock-out situations, excess inventory, non-moving and slow-moving items.
- Reduce expiry, wastage, emergency purchases, and inventory holding costs.
- Establish appropriate reorder levels, safety stock, minimum/maximum stock levels, and consumption-based planning.

3. Vendor Management

- Identify, evaluate, onboard, and manage suppliers.
- Conduct commercial negotiations covering rates, payment terms, lead times, delivery schedules, and service levels.
- Monitor vendor performance through OTIF, quality rejection rate, lead time, fill rate, and SLA adherence.
- Develop alternate vendors for critical items to minimize supply disruption risk.

4. Cost Optimization

- Conduct spend analysis by category, department, vendor, and hospital/unit.
- Drive product standardization,



vendor consolidation, rate rationalization, and volume-based negotiations.
- Benchmark procurement prices across hospital units and external healthcare markets.
- Partner with Finance and department heads to identify sustainable OPEX savings.

5. Stakeholder Management

- Work closely with Operations, Finance, Pharmacy, Nursing, OT, Engineering, Housekeeping, Biomedical, Infection Control, and Clinical departments.
- Understand departmental consumption patterns and forecast upcoming requirements.
- Coordinate with users for product evaluation and standardization.
- Ensure critical supplies are available to support uninterrupted patient care.

6. Compliance & Governance

- Ensure adherence to approved procurement policies, delegation of authority, budgets, contracts, and vendor onboarding procedures.
- Maintain proper documentation for quotations, purchase orders, comparative statements, approvals, and contracts.
- Support internal, statutory, and procurement audits.
- Ensure material/product procurement meets applicable hospital quality and safety requirements.

Key KPIs

- OPEX savings against budget
- Procurement cost reduction %
- Purchase price variance
- Inventory holding / inventory days
- Stock-out %
- Inventory turnover ratio
- Expiry and wastage %
- Non-moving/slow-moving inventory
- Emergency purchase %
- Vendor OTIF %
- PO turnaround time
- Contract compliance %
- Vendor quality/rejection rate

Required Skills

- Hospital supply chain management
- OPEX and budget management
- Strategic sourcing and procurement
- Inventory optimization
- Vendor development and negotiation
- Cost and spend analysis
- Contract and rate negotiation
- Advanced Excel / MIS reporting
- ERP/SAP/Oracle or hospital ERP exposure
- Robust analytical and stakeholder-management skills

📌 Opex Manager (Chennai)
🏢 Apollo Hospitals
📍 Chennai