Supply Chain Analyst

It's more than a career, it's a calling.

MO-SSM Health Mission Hill

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

J oin a team where your work matters—every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you’ll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.

As a Supply Chain Analyst , you'll play a key role in ensuring our caregivers have the products, supplies, and data-driven insights they need to deliver exceptional patient care. Working across sourcing, inventory management, logistics, and operational teams, you'll analyze supply chain performance, identify cost-saving opportunities, improve processes, and help drive strategic decisions that enhance efficiency across the organization. If you enjoy solving complex problems, leveraging data to influence outcomes, and making a measurable impact in a mission-driven healthcare environment, this is an opportunity to help shape the future of care delivery.

Department: Supply Chain

Schedule: M-F Onsite at our Des Peres, MO Location. Standard Business Hours 8-5pm.

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Job Summary:

Supports the corporate supply chain organization serving hospitals and care sites across all regions. Responsible for product data analysis, product lifecycle support, inventory optimization, SKU reduction, product conversion execution, and operational improvement initiatives. Collaborates with supply chain operations, clinicians, administrative staff, and distribution partners to ensure availability, standardization, and efficient utilization of medical supplies across the health system.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Executes product conversions and cutovers (validate data, update item records, and communicate changes to stakeholders).

• Maintains item master/ERP data for new item requests, changes, and discontinuations.

• Identifies and implements substitute items during recalls, backorders, and vendor disruptions.

• Supports SKU rationalization and variation reduction initiatives across hospitals and service lines.

• Partners with clinical and operational teams to ensure product acceptance and alignment with standards of care. Analyzes utilization patterns and clinical feedback to drive product standardization and adoption.

• Optimizes inventory levels, replenishment strategies, and stocking parameters with distribution partners. Performs inventory analysis to improve availability, reduce excess/obsolete inventory, and support rightsizing.

• Manages item-level forecasting to anticipate demand shifts, seasonality, and product lifecycle changes.

• Provides analytical insights to support decisions (spend analysis, utilization trends, and contract compliance).

• Supports product recall workflows (system management, notifications, tracking, and stakeholder communications).

• Delivers operational support through reporting, meeting facilitation/documentation, customer issue resolution, continuous improvement/data integrity initiatives, and various other projects as assigned.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience and education

EXPERIENCE

• One year of experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.

• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.

• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.

• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.

• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.

• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.

• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.

• Rare climbing

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

• None

Department:

8725010033 Supply Chain Mgmt

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

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