Product Coordinator

**Req ID**:146281**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location**:Central** Zone, **Centennial Building - QEII**
**Department**:OPCZ PERI Supply Chain VG**
**Type of Employment**:Permanent** **Hourly FT** (**100%** FTE) x **1** position(s)**
**Status: MGMT/NON-Union** **Management/Non Union** Position**
**Posting Closing Date**:22-Dec-22**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators and creative thinkers today.

**About the Opportunity**:
The Product Coordinator is responsible for ensuring the NSH OR’s have the right supplies when needed. Provides leadership to OR supply inventory management. Identifies opportunities that may exist for standardization and reviewing budgets and costs to identify opportunities that will help address our deficit in collaboration with key stakeholders i.e., nurses, physicians, managers, Materiels Management Department.

Under the direction of the OR Manager the Product Coordinator is responsible for the management of supplies and equipment for the Operating Rooms at the VG Hospital. In addition to the co-ordination and evaluation of all new supplies, the coordinator is responsible for contributing to business case justifications, identifying standardization opportunities (while balancing clinical requirements) and ensuring appropriate person centred health care is met. The Product Coordinator is responsible for the direct supervision and management of Supply Technicians in the ORs.

**About You**:
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
- Registered Nurse with a minimum five years O.R. experience
- Registration with the Nova Scotia College of Nursing (NSCN), or eligible for registration
- Leadership/management experience an asset
- Ability to influence others in adapting to change
- Work cooperatively and collaboratively in a team environment
- Demonstrates high degrees of independent decision making, self-direction, motivation, change management knowledge and team building/leadership skills including proven communication and time management.
- Strong analytic skills ie financial analysis related to purchase of new product
- Exhibits creative problem solving ability and willingness to consider uncharted or novel ideas related to trends in health care
- Must understand basic budgeting and fiscal management principles and processes.
- Sound knowledge base of vendor/buyer guidelines and protocols.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook.
- Ability to supervise staff in an unionized environment.
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

**Hours**:

- Permanent, Full-Time (100%) position; 75 hours biweekly

**Compensation and Incentives**:
$35.27 - $46.87 Hourly

**Once You've Applied**

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

This is a Management/Non Union bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.

As per the COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination Protocol in High-Risk Settings, Nova Scotia Health requires all team members to be fully vaccinated by November 30th, 2021.

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