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Are you a driven person with experience in procurement or coordination? Do you want to help ensure that the patients of Region Skåne receive the best possible assistive devices? We are looking for a product and contract leader for the assistive device unit in Malmö! Seize the opportunity to become part of a close-knit team driven by development, improvement, and helping patients access the right assistive devices.

The assistive device operations within the Psychiatry, habilitation, and assistive devices administration is responsible for all areas of assistive devices financed by Region Skåne. This includes assistive devices for people with mobility, vision, hearing, communication, and cognitive impairments, medical treatment aids, orthopedic technical aids, and pharmaceutical-related products.

The product unit belongs to the Order/Logistics area and is responsible for the order and material flow throughout the entire operation. This also includes the Customer Service, Administration, and Logistics units. The product unit has product and contract responsibility for the various areas of assistive devices and is responsible for the assistive device guidelines. We lead procurement work and follow up on contracts, products, and guidelines to ensure that the patients of Region Skåne receive the right products.

Currently, there are eight product and contract leaders, a development strategist, and an administrator in our Product Unit. Your closest colleagues all have a healthcare education background and belong to various professional categories such as nurses, occupational therapists, speech therapists, dietitians, physiotherapists, and audiologists, creating a dynamic group. Here, expertise is shared among professional categories to strengthen delivery reliability to patients. The unit actively works with transparency to promote employee participation.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a product and contract leader, you have overall operational responsibility for your product area, which for this position is related to medical treatment aids for respiratory care. You are the link between the assistive device operations, healthcare, and the supplier market. This means you are responsible for coordinating procurement work, implementing contracts, and ongoing contract follow-up in close collaboration with buyers. You should also actively contribute to the development of the operation. In this role, you will work on improvements related to the prescribable product range provided to patients in Region Skåne.

Furthermore, you are responsible for ongoing product work, which includes further developing the product range, collaborating with prescribers, and preparing documentation for financial follow-up. Additionally, you will conduct market surveillance, ensure good registry maintenance, and manage supplier contacts. The work is carried out in close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. The operation is based on the LEAN philosophy and has created a structure where all employees participate in local pulse and improvement meetings. In these meetings, deviations and improvements are handled based on given processes. The perspective is customer-centered, where the primary customer is the prescriber, and the end customer is the patients.

There is an opportunity for remote work up to two days a week when the operation allows.

QUALIFICATIONS

We welcome you who are a licensed nurse, licensed physiotherapist authorized to work within Swedish healthcare, or a medical technology engineer. You have good knowledge of Swedish in both spoken and written forms. Since the work is performed administratively, good knowledge of the MS Office package, primarily Excel, is necessary.

Clinical experience, experience working with medical technical equipment/respiratory aids, and good knowledge of MDR and regulations regarding the relevant product area are meritorious. If you also have experience in procurement, purchasing, and contracts within public operations and contact with suppliers, that is a plus.

To thrive in the role, you are structured, solution-oriented, and flexible, and possess good collaboration skills. You enjoy working independently as well as in a team. Since the work is carried out in close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, you are communicative and pedagogical in your approach. A driving force for you is to create and maintain relationships with various partners. Additionally, you enjoy work driven by continuous improvements. We value that you enjoy and have fun at work; therefore, we place great importance on your personal qualities and expect you to share Region Skåne's values: welcoming, driving, caring, and respectful.

We apply ongoing selection and plan to hold interviews on February 5th. We warmly welcome your application!

OTHER

Region Skåne exists to ensure that everyone living in Skåne feels good and has hope for the future. Through limitless collaborations and care, the best conditions for a healthy life are created within business, public transport, culture, and healthcare in Skåne. Together, we make life more possible.

The Psychiatry, habilitation, and assistive devices administration is the second largest administration with operations throughout Skåne. We have a broad mission where many different competencies together provide our patients with the best care and support. With curiosity and great interest, we also invest in development and research.

The mission within psychiatry is to provide specialized care in publicly operated child, adult, and forensic psychiatry. Habilitation provides habilitation and rehabilitation within publicly operated child, youth, and adult habilitation. The assistive devices unit is tasked with managing assistive devices prescribed to patients in Skåne. Within the administration, there are also vision, hearing, and deaf services and youth clinics in Skåne.

At https://www.skane.se/ledigajobb (https://www.skane.se/ledigajobb), you can see the stage of Region Skåne's recruitment processes and how many have applied for the positions.

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