Purchasing Agent

Job Title

Major duties and responsibilities include:

• Perform direct purchasing of durable medical equipment and providing administrative support to clinical services within the VA.
• Initiate procurement of all outpatient medical requirements to include: direct individual purchases to the Veteran, stock purchases for immediate availability, all medical surgical implants used during surgery, and/or rental requirements.
• Inbound customer service calls and providing resolutions to veterans, vendors, and clinicians.
• Reading, understanding, and adhering to provider prescriptions/consults to determine eligibility and entitlement of a Veteran's status for prescribed equipment.
• Accounting for all expenditures and inventory working between the purchasing card and prosthetics program.
• Balance expenditures against obligations.
• Document all inventory and purchasing actions in the Veteran's medical record.
• Develop request for quotation, soliciting competitive offers, evaluating responds to bids and requests for proposal.
• Performing other duties as assigned.

Promotion Potential:

The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level.

Work Schedule:

Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm

Telework:

Ad-hoc telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.

Virtual:

This is not a virtual position. YOU MUST LIVE WITHIN OR BE WILLING TO RELOCATE WITHIN A COMMUTABLE DISTANCE OF THE DUTY LOCATION