Duties & Responsibilities:

• Ensure adequate stocks available for all pharmaceutical items in line with the hospital policies
• Maintain hospital wide pharmacy inventory, ensuring no stock outs, adherence to the tender and placing orders to the suppliers
• Ensuring all suppliers/distributors are in line with PPB regulations and all products are registered with PPB
• Approve all pharmaceutical items orders being sent out to suppliers
• Prepare reports
• Generate and capture fill rates to all the departments
• Checking expiry dates of medicines
• Create minimum reorder levels for pharmacy stores
• Communication to the relevant departments with regards to stock outs and appropriate alternatives
• Member of pharmaceutical tender committee

Key Performance Indicators

• Percentage of stock outs for pharmaceutical items
• Overall inventory of pharmaceutical items across the hospital
• Fill rates for orders supplied from MMD
• Audit score on medication storage
• Expiry value
• Variance level
• Compliance to formulary
• Compliance to tender
• JCI audit score

Qualifications, Regulatory & Legal Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy
• Valid membership with PSK and a valid practicing license
• Minimum of 3 years working experience in a hospital