The Opportunity
Join our team at Slade Pharmacy Richmond, located within the prestigious Epworth Hospital, in a rewarding full-time, permanent role working 38 hours per week. In this dynamic position, you'll play a key part in managing inventory, ensuring timely product orders, and supporting critical procurement and stock management activities.
  
With a variety of tasks such as coordinating product recalls, assisting with stocktakes, and maintaining purchasing systems, this role offers a great opportunity to develop your skills in a fast-paced, supportive environment. If you're looking to contribute to a team dedicated to quality service and excellence in healthcare, we'd love to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure appropriate product levels are maintained and stored
• Send orders to suppliers in an efficient and timely manner to ensure that stock arrives on time for distribution to client hospitals and patients
• Effective management of product recalls
• Coordinate rolling expiry date checks
• Assist in pharmacy stocktake activities
• Maintain purchasing systems
• Ensure all contractual obligations with the hospital sites are met
• Assist procurement team through the coordination of national purchasing, product and inventory management activities
• Return unwanted/damaged stock back to wholesaler for credit
• Management of invoicing, credits and supplier errors
• Process store transfers to and from our Richmond site

This is a physical role that requires you to manually lift objects, stand, bend and squat. You will be required to lift heavy boxes of up to 20 kg in weight on and off trolleys, a pallet riser and shelving in our loading dock. 

About Slade Pharmacy Richmond
Slade Pharmacy Richmond is part of the Icon Group.  We are a busy Hospital and Retail Pharmacy located on Bridge Road, ground level of the renowned Epworth Hospital.  Our Pharmacy is well appointed with high-end brands such as Chanel, Dior and Lancôme.  You will form part of a focused team who aim to provide our customers with an exceptional level of service.

About Icon Group
Icon Group provides a complete suite of services to support the operation of more than 75 pharmacies across Australia. Icon Group supports Slade and Epic pharmacies specialising in hospital and oncology pharmacy services. This includes regional and metropolitan sites in both public and private hospitals that range from 31 to 900 beds. 

The national pharmacy network offers partner hospitals best-practice medication supply and clinical pharmacy services, combined with extensive experience and knowledge of pharmacy governance and quality management practices.  
  
For more information visit https://icongroup.global/en/our-services/pharmacy-services  

Who are we looking for?
We are seeking someone who can work autonomously in a fast-paced environment. With previous purchasing experience, managing and working with stock you will have high attention to detail and the ability to prioritise competing demands and communicate effectively with your team.

Previous experience working in a pharmacy or hospital purchasing is ESSENTIAL.
 
Our ideal candidate will:

• Have prior experience in a similar role, with a strong understanding of the procurement function.
• Demonstrate excellent customer service skills and effective communication abilities.
• Show initiative, accuracy, and a commitment to delivering high-quality service.
• Possess exceptional organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Be a team player with a positive, 'can-do' attitude.

Here’s why our people choose us:  

• Purpose, at Pace: We remain focused on continually expanding our cancer treatment services and making them accessible to more people across Australia and internationally.
• Impact, at Scale: We’re Australia’s largest dedicated provider of cancer care, with our global reach growing every day. Here you’ll know your work is making a difference.
• Connection, at Heart: Our work isn’t easy but it’s extremely important. Our secret ingredient is our incredible, connected, and talented people. And their secret ingredient is each other.
• Opportunity, at Hand: We’re continually innovating. We deliver over 2.5 million patient interactions, in over 120 places, across 5 countries. Every week brings changes, growth and new opportunities.

  
Visit https://icongroup.global/en/careers/our-people/stories/ to read the stories of our incredible people. 
  
Excited to join us?
At Icon, it’s our people who shape our impact. Find a career that matters to you, with Icon. So, Apply Now because At Icon, You Can.
  
Here are just a few of the benefits available at Icon Group:  

• Elevate your pharmacy career with hands-on training in hospital pharmacy - ideal for community pharmacists
• Competitive remuneration and structured professional development through our National Career Pathway
• Incredible discounts and cashback on hundreds of brands through our internal Ignite app
• Access to novated lease options via our partner RemServ
• Resources and tools to help support and balance psychological and physical health  
• Exciting internal opportunities as part of Icon’s expansion

For other unique opportunities where you can fast-track your career and make a lasting impact visit https://icongroup.global/en/regional-pharmacy-roles/

Icon Group celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all employees. We encourage applications from all diverse backgrounds.

Health Requirement
Icon is committed to managing the risk of transmission of specified vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs). Certain roles may require the successful candidate to show evidence that they have been vaccinated against or are not susceptible to specified VPDs.