Senior Stock Controller - Theatre

Function

Stock Controller

Facility

Life Groenkloof Hospital

Position

Senior Stock Controller - Theatre

Introduction

A vacancy exists for a Senior Stock Controller, based at Life Groenkloof Hospital reporting to the Theatre Manager. The successful candidates will be responsible for ensuring quality pharmaceutical services, financial objectives, legislative compliance and people management requirements are achieved to the required standards.

Critical Outputs

• Data capturing as well as inventory control.
• Assist doctor on all surgical queries.
• Assist in product conversion.
• Database maintenance including Imeds codes, box codes and preferred levels.
• Adhere to ISO procedures and protocols.
• Work closely with Pharmacy personnel.
• Ensure good communication with nursing staff and doctors

Effective medication safety management

• Report 100% of theatre alerts and incidents
• Responsible for the correct ordering and receipting of stock
• Perform stock rotation and expiry dates checks of all stock items systematically

Effective quality management systems

• Ensure compliance to LHC Quality management systems.
• Ensure compliance with SAPC, DOH and LHC legal and professional standards
• Ensure customer satisfaction and pharmacy quality initiatives.
• Capturing and handling of product complaints
• Implementing and maintaining LHC formulary
• Performing cycle counts and stock takes as well as capturing stock takes, investigating variances in theatre.
• Ensure accurate receiving, receipting & distribution of stock to the hospital.

Effective product management

• Participate in the active management of cost of sales.
• Manage non recoverable usage
• Communicate out of stock items.
• Follow up on back orders.
• Manage excess stock, negative stock, deadstock & overstock items.
• Processing transfers in good time and ensuring the daily generation of auto transfers.

Effective asset management

• Management of the theatre stockroom
• Managing the procurement, control and distribution of stock within the theatre complex
• Participate in achieving stock targets i.e. stock days, dead stock, stock variances
• Excellent stock-take knowledge with good management of short, dated stock
• Participate in achieving budgeted financial measures relating to pharmacy
• Manage and minimize stock write offs
• Management of unreconciled liabilities
• Ensure correct ordering, issuing, timeous receipting and crediting of stock
• Achieve optimal system utilization.

All the above outputs to be carried out in accordance with our standard operating procedures and protocols.

Requirements

• Grade 12
• 2-3 years of experience
• Experience within inventory management or relevant experience within a pharmacy environment.
• Knowledge of inventory control processes, procedures and practices.
• Understanding of management and relationship structures within an operating environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• People management experience.
• Computer literacy
• Candidate will need to be self-motivated and self-disciplined. Attention to detail and the ability to work accurately under pressure.
• Theatre stock control experience would be an advantage.

Competencies

• Problem-solving, analysis and judgement
• Resilience
• Engaging diversity
• Verbal & written communication and presentation
• Influencing
• Drive & energy
• Excellence orientation
• Ethical behaviour
• Building relationships
• Customer responsiveness
• Organisational awareness

Email

Careers.Groenkloof@lifehealthcare.co.za

Closing date

Wednesday, August 5, 2026