Senior Buyer
Tulsa, OKFull-timeSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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The Senior Buyer determines sources and orders supplies and equipment for hospital departments. The role works with vendor representatives to obtain product information, negotiate pricing, arrange returns and credits, and coordinate contracts and product evaluations. It also supports purchasing decisions through inventory review, pricing analysis, reports, and recommendations to departments and committees.
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Yale Campus - Blandine Building
Full time
JR33301
Current Saint Francis Employees - Please click HERE (https://wd115.myworkday.com/saintfrancis/d/task/2998$46522.htmld) to login and apply.
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Job Summary: Determines sources and orders supplies/equipment for hospital departments. Meets with vendor representatives to receive product information, negotiate supply/equipment pricing, arrange product returns/credits, coordinates vendor contracts with hospital departments and obtains products for evaluation. Attends assigned meetings, ensures correct contract tier pricing, and provides product information to using departments.
Minimum Education: High School Diploma or GED.
Licensure, Registration and/or Certification: None.
Work Experience: 6 months - 1 year related experience; buyer experience preferred.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Knowledgeable in Microsoft word and excel.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities: Expedites order and receipt of emergency or special orders; ensures product availability for daily operations. Interviews vendor representatives according to departmental scheduling and time guidelines to obtain product information or other vendor services. Discusses new products and cost reduction opportunities with vendor representatives. Review inventory and non-inventory items for possible savings and advises users or appropriate committee; maintains a record or cost reductions. Utilizes the Materials Management system, EDI, FAX, telephone, or mail to generate and forward purchase orders to vendors timely and appropriately. Updates the Materials Management computer system with current and accurate information. Consults with department managers, groups or physicians and attends appropriate meetings to recommend cost saving changes or provide the purchasing department support and coordinate purchasing services. Provides pricing information in a timely manner. Prepares reports and spreadsheets to analyze pricing, usage, and other factors regarding supplies/services to support purchasing decisions and provide information for contract negotiations or purchase agreements.
Decision Making: Independent judgment in making minor decisions where alternatives are limited and standard policies/protocols have been established.
Working Relationships: Coordinates activities of others (does not supervise) Leads others in same work performed (does not supervise) Works directly with patients and/or customers Works with internal customers via telephone or face to face interaction Works with external customers via telephone or face to face interaction Works with other healthcare professionals and staff
Special Job Dimensions: None.
Supplemental Information: This document generally describes the essential functions of the job and the physical demands required to perform the job. This compilation of essential functions and physical demands is not all inclusive nor does it prohibit the assignment of additional duties.
Material Services Purchasing - Yale Campus
Location:
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74136
EOE Protected Veterans/Disability
Saint Francis is a Catholic, not-for-profit Health system based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We are the largest private employer in Eastern Oklahoma with over 12,000 employees, including 1,000 physicians. The health system is anchored by the 1,112-bed Saint Francis Hospital, the largest hospital in Oklahoma and the 11th largest in the nation. Our system also includes hospitals in south Tulsa, Muskogee and Vinita, as well as 110 Warren Clinic locations from Monkey Island to McAlester, northeastern Oklahoma's only children's hospital, a level IV neonatal intensive care unit, a 168-bed heart hospital, and Tulsa's leading trauma and emergency center.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,238 open Buyer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$75–101K/yr527 salary ranges
- US median$27–33/hr136 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 19 open Buyer jobs in Oklahoma and 1,238 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Buyer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 897 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 514 of the 1,238 open Buyer jobs (42%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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