Manager, Operating Room Supply Chain

Job Title: Manager

Location: Vogel Cancer Center

Department Name: Distribution

Req #: 0000255255

Status: Salaried

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $65,000.00 - $91,000.00 per year

Pay Transparency:

The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

Job Overview:

Supply Chain OR Managers, including titles of manager or operations manager, oversee supply chain operations related to the hospital’s perioperative and surgical services department. This role ensures the timely availability of surgical supplies and implants while maintaining cost efficiency, inventory accuracy, regulatory compliance, and uninterrupted support for surgical services. The OR supply chain manager collaborates with nursing leadership, clinicians, vendors, and supply chain leadership to optimize surgical supply utilization and operation performance. This position manages direct reports. Delivering all clean linen exchange for the soiled linen carts to Nursing Units.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage daily perioperative supply chain operations to ensure uninterrupted availability of surgical supplies, implants, tissues, and specialty products.
• Maintain optimal inventory levels using utilization data and analytics to support operational and clinical needs.
• Oversee inventory control processes, including product expiration monitoring, stock rotation, cycle counting, and compliance with FIFO practices.
• Partner with OR leadership, clinical teams, and schedulers to ensure timely case preparation and support emergency, urgent, and add-on procedures.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain Clinical Resource Management to address product conversions, backorders, shortages, recalls, and patient-specific supply requirements.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise tissue tracking, implant management, and recall policies; monitor tissue storage and inventory integrity.
• Investigate and resolve ERP inventory discrepancies and supply-related issues in collaboration with operational leadership.
• Monitor, analyze, and improve key performance indicators (KPIs), inventory utilization, spend, waste, and operational efficiency.
• Lead physician preference card optimization initiatives to improve standardization, inventory management, and cost effectiveness.
• Supervise, develop, and evaluate perioperative supply chain staff; establish work assignments, schedules, performance expectations, and accountability standards.
• Conduct regular departmental rounding, audits, and documentation activities to support regulatory, accreditation, and patient safety requirements.
• Partner with the Site Supply Chain Director and perioperative leadership to achieve departmental goals, enhance service levels, and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Required:

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent required
• Three to five years of healthcare supply chain or perioperative services experience as well as managerial experience.

Preferred:

• College degree preferred.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Benefits and Perks:

At RWJBarnabas Health, our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Driven by our Total Wellbeing promise, our market-competitive offerings include comprehensive benefits and resources to support our employees’ physical, emotional, financial, personal, career, and community wellbeing.  These benefits and resources include, but are not limited to:

• Paid Time Off including Vacation, Holidays, and Sick Time
• Retirement Plans
• Medical and Prescription Drug Insurance
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Disability and Life Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Student Loan Planning Support
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Wellness Programs
• Voluntary Benefits (e.g., Pet Insurance)
• Community and Volunteer Opportunities
• Discounts Through our Partners such as NJ Devils, NJ PAC, and Verizon….and more!

Choosing RWJBarnabas Health!

RWJBarnabas Health is the premier health care destination providing patient-centered, high-quality academic medicine in a compassionate and equitable manner, while delivering a best-in-class work experience to every member of the team.  We honor and appreciate the privilege of creating and sustaining healthier communities, one person and one community at a time.  As the leading academic health system in New Jersey, we advance innovative strategies in high-quality patient care, education, and research to address both the clinical and social determinants of health. 

RWJBarnabas Health aims to truly make a unique impact in local communities throughout New Jersey. From vastly improving the health of local residents to creating educational and career opportunities, this combination greatly benefits the state. We understand the growing and evolving needs of residents in New Jersey—whether that be enhancing the coordination for treating complex health conditions or improving community health through local programs and education.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At RWJBarnabas Health, our market-competitive Total Rewards package provides comprehensive benefits and resources to support our employees physical, emotional, social, and financial health.

• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Medical and Prescription Drug Insurance
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Retirement Plans
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Life & Accidental Death Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Wellness Programs
• Voluntary Benefits (e.g., Pet Insurance)
• Discounts Through our Partners such as NJ Devils, NJ PAC, Verizon, and more!

RWJBarnabas Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer