Company Background
Uniphar Group is a leading service provider within the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector headquartered in Ireland. We have grown significantly in recent years, both organically and through acquisition. We now employ over 2,300 people at 15 office locations and depots in Ireland, the UK, Europe and the United States, and intend to expand further into the global market.
Operating a strong service-based culture and working closely with our partners, we provide an innovative range of services and integrated solutions based on our core capabilities. These services include product distribution, outsourcing and resourcing, multichannel account management, data analytics, market access and patient management solutions into the pharmaceutical and medical devices sectors. The business is divided into three trading divisions: Supply Chain & Retail Services, Product Access Services and Commercial & Clinical Services.
- Supply Chain Services provides both pre-wholesale and wholesale distribution of pharmaceutical, healthcare and animal health products to pharmacies, hospitals and veterinary surgeons in Ireland. The business supports a diverse customer base through the provision of strong service levels coupled with innovative commercial initiatives. In addition, the business provides services and supports that help independent community pharmacy to compete more effectively in an increasingly difficult environment and runs a network of Uniphar-owned pharmacies under the Life Allcare and Hickeys brands.
- Our Product Access Services businesses support healthcare professionals and their patients to access unlicensed or otherwise difficult to procure medicines. Within the division we now concentrate on two specific business areas: On Demand Access and Exclusive Access. Uniphar, through the PharmaSource, has had a lot of success in this area, thanks to our strong pharmacy relationships and our ability to access two million pharmaceutical products through 100 global suppliers.
- Our Commercial & Clinical division provide outsourced services, specifically sales, marketing and multichannel account management to pharmaco-medical manufacturers, and distribution and support services to medical device manufacturers. Uniphar offer a fully integrated multi-channel account management solution that is supported through market data, insights and digital programmes. We integrate these programmes with our supply chain and distribution capability to provide a full end to end service to manufacturers.
The three trading divisions work in synergy to allow us to support our healthcare professional and manufacturer customers to provide their patients and communities with the medicines and care that they need.
Supporting the Dispensary Buyers who manage all negotiations for our 400+ pharmacy group, the Dispensary Buying Assistant will support with the day to day running of our busy department. This role is a great opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician with an eye for detail & systems to step into a head office role with great opportunities to progress further.
MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Supporting the Pharmacy Buying team with administrative tasks
- Managing the MPS pricing file
- Maintaining pricing on our PI marketplace
- Producing weekly & monthly reports on performance & store compliance
- From our regular reporting, identifying opportunities for further growth in sales & margin
- Team-lead on communications with the stores on stock & orders
- Supporting the buyers on stock & margin reviews
- Any other reasonable requests
QUALIFICATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS REQUIRED
- Pharmacy Technician qualification is required
- MPS/SAP experience an advantage
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong experience with all MS products with a particular focus on BI, Excel & PowerPoint.
COMPETENCIES
- A strong communicator who is able to work closely with wider retail teams.
- Positive ‘problem solving’ mentality who is willing to grow in the role.