Coordinator, Its Inventory

**Who We Are**:
London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is a world-class academic health sciences centre located in the southwestern Ontario city of London. Just two hours from Toronto and two hours from Detroit, London features a beautiful and walkable downtown core located on the Thames River, a vibrant culinary scene and scores of activities that highlight local arts, culture and music. As one of Canada’s largest acute-care teaching hospitals, LHSC is a world-class innovator in clinical care, research and teaching, delivering both local and regional services, including the Children’s Hospital, within a large geographic area. LHSC has a workforce of close to 15,000, dedicated to delivering the highest quality patient care while working together to shape the future of health.

The Information Technology Services (ITS) department provides the full spectrum of IT services for both LHSC and St. Joseph’s Health Care London including the support and maintenance of storage, server and end point infrastructure. The department serves over 22,000 staff, affiliates, and volunteers. The supporting infrastructure includes over 1,300 virtual servers and 16,000 computers. It also provides IT thought leadership for our nine regional Hospital Information System (HIS) partners who share a common instance of Cerner Millennium called “OneChart”. The ITS department’s team have an in-depth array of skills and experience that is leveraged to operate the complex infrastructures of the hospitals, all for the betterment of the patients we serve.

**Job Summary**:
**What the Role Is**
Reporting to the Manager, Technology Solutions, the Coordinator, ITS Inventory & Procurement is accountable for providing a focused depth of technical/clinical knowledge, ensuring consistent and effective review, assessment, procurement, delivery and coordinating of refresh cycles of all desktop devices supported across all sites of LHSC and St. Joseph’s Health Care. There are approximately 20,000 devices, consisting of PCs, thin clients, laptops, and peripherals.

This role is accountable for day-to-day department activities, including the management of human and material resources, day-to-day staffing and scheduling, development and support of a healthy workplace, risk and utilization measurements, and facilitation of improvement initiatives and change management, while operating within approved operational budgets and financial guidelines and controls. A major focus of the role is fostering effective working relationships and networks within the team/unit and with other teams across the organization.

**Qualifications**:
**Who You Are**
- You are self-aware of own assumptions, values, principles, strengths and limitations
- You manage and develop self while modeling qualities such as honesty, integrity, resilience, and confidence
- You engage and support others to foster development, personal goals and encourage a healthy organization
- You achieve results by strategically aligning direction, decisions, actions and evaluation with the vision, values and evidence
- You facilitate an environment of collaboration and cooperation
- You create connections, build partnerships and networks
- You demonstrate a commitment to the organizational vision, mission, values and service excellence
- You are a transformational thinker that encourages and supports innovation
- You have exceptional analytical skills that contribute to effective decision-making
- You are self-directed, courageous, and highly motivated with excellent interpersonal and effective communication skills

**What Skills Are Needed**
- Strong technical knowledge that helps drive strategic decision making
- Planning and executing action plans that deliver results and motivate individuals for greater performance excellence
- Strong business acumen
- Values-based leadership and a proven track record for developing and sustaining healthy work environments and effective teams while leading in a performance-driven culture
- Lead and drive system transformation
- Develop self and others through teaching, coaching, mentoring and formal development processes
- Strong analytical skills that contribute to effective problem solving and decision-making

**What You Will Bring with You**
- Successful completion of a recognized baccalaureate degree program in a related field (e.g. Computer Science) or a diploma in Computer Systems Technology. Related post-graduate education preferred
- Minimum five (2) years’ experience in progressively more responsible leadership roles in a healthcare environment, preferably in an acute care academic teaching hospital
- Minimum three (3) to five (5) years’ experience in healthcare IT preferred, experience managing IT Desktop Technologies preferred
- Demonstrated ability to attend work on a regular basis

**Other Information**:
London Health Sciences Centre fosters a culture of patient and staff safety whereby all employees are guided by LHSC's Mission, Vision,