To lead and manage the overall Inventory and Purchase functions across the Eye Hospital Group, ensuring effective inventory control, cost optimization, timely procurement, vendor management and compliance with statutory and organizational policies.

The position is responsible for establishing standardized financial and procurement systems across all hospital branches, maintaining adequate availability of medical and non-medical materials, minimizing wastage and pilferage, and ensuring transparency and accountability in all financial and purchasing transactions.

1. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Develop and implement a centralized purchase and procurement policy.
- Obtain purchase requirements from all hospital departments and branches.
- Verify purchase requisitions and ensure appropriate authorization before procurement.
- Obtain and compare quotations from multiple approved vendors.
- Negotiate pricing, credit periods, delivery timelines and commercial terms.
- Develop and maintain an approved vendor database.
- Ensure procurement of quality-approved ophthalmic products and medical consumables.




- Coordinate with clinical and technical teams for product specifications and approvals.
- Monitor purchase orders, delivery schedules and pending supplies.
- Verify purchase orders against goods received notes (GRN), invoices and approved quotations.
- Identify opportunities for bulk purchasing and cost reduction.
- Monitor vendor performance, quality, service and delivery commitments.
- Prevent unauthorized purchases and duplicate procurement.
- Review annual purchase contracts and rate agreements.
- Ensure emergency procurement is properly documented and approved.
- Implement inventory control procedures across all branches.
- Ensure segregation of duties between requisition, approval, purchase, receipt and payment.
- Ensure proper documentation for every financial and procurement transaction.
- Conduct surprise stock audits and periodic financial checks.
- Identify discrepancies, irregularities and control weaknesses.
- Implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Ensure proper maintenance of purchase, stock, payment and audit records.

Work Location: In person

📌 Senior Accounts-Inventory and Purchase (Kozhikode)
🏢 V TRUST EYE HOSPITAL
📍 Kozhikode