Selomah Tarr
Philadelphia,PA
Summary
Purchasing professional prepared for high-impact roles in procurement and supply chain management. Adept at optimizing purchasing strategies, ensuring cost-effective procurement and contract adherence, while demonstrating strong problem-solving aptitude. Highly collaborative with focus on achieving results and adapting to dynamic needs. Committed to enhancing operational efficiency and maintaining high-quality standards. Skilled in vendor negotiations and inventory management.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Purchasing Specialist II
Universal Health Services
367 S Gulph Rd, King Of Prussia, PA 19406
03.2023 - Current
- Order Management: Manages the procurement of medical supplies, equipment, and services for acute/sub-acute care facilities. Follows up on orders placed and verifies delivery.
- Purchasing Operations: Processes requisitions into purchase orders, manages vendor relations, analyze data, handles returns or exchanges and resolve purchasing issues.
- Contract Adherence: identifies contracted, GPO, or preferred vendors, ensuring proper contracted pricing. and approval is completed prior to purchase order issuance.
- Works through and resolve all invoice and price discrepancies with Accounts Payable, utilizing EDI confirmation; GPO and UHS contracted pricing information. Exercises purchasing delegation of authority up to $25,000.
- Completing and transmit daily resolution reports for all assigned facilities, ie formatting/working the reports backorders, drop-ships in/out, pick exception, auto-sub, rejections, etc.
- Reviews open order report and expedites orders to ensure delivery requirements are met, and communicates delivery information to requester and facility supply chain department.
- Maintains files of supporting and appropriate documents.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Ann's Choice, Erickson Living
Warminster, PA
05.2011 - 06.2023
- Provide quality nursing care to residents in an environment which promotes their rights, dignity, freedom of choice, and their individuality.
- Knowledgeable of the individualized care plan and provide support to the resident according to the care plan.
- Contribute to the care planing process by providing the charge nurse or other planning staff with the specific information and observations of the residents' needs and preferences.
- Attend to the individual needs of residents which may include activities of daily living; grooming, bathing, oral hygiene, feeding, incontinence care, colotomy care, prosthetic appliances, transferring, ambulation, range of motion, communicating, or other needs in keeping with the individuals' care requirements.
- Assisted with programming, coordinating several programs daily, ensuring residents attendance.
- Supported needs of 20+ residents under long-term care.
Quality Assurance Specialist
Actalent Scientific
Philadelphia, PA
03.2022 - 09.2022
- Provide QA oversight of aseptic processing including QA audit program.
- Execute personnel monitoring within the aseptic processing area using MODA system.
- Execute AQL sampling and inspection of finished drug product.
- Conducted thorough/real time reviews of batch records, logbooks, and other associated GMP documents to ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
- Assist with quality investigations related to deviations and environmental monitoring excursions.
- Support additional site and quality functional teams to address product quality issues effectively.
- Conducted training sessions on new QA tools and methodologies for team members, improving overall skill sets.
- Documented and reported quality assurance outcomes, providing actionable insights for product development teams.
Education
Master of Science - Clinical Research Administration
Walden University
Minneapolis, MN02-2019
Bachelor of Science -
African Methodist Episcopal University
Monrovia, Liberia06-2007
Skills
- New vendor setup
- Cost analysis
- Risk management
- Problem-solving aptitude
- Quality assurance
- Data analysis
- ICH-GCP
- ALCOA
- GLP
- MediDATA
- Microsoft Office Applications
Accomplishments
Promoted from a Purchasing Specialist I to Purchasing Specialist II due to my consistent performance, growth, reliability, contributions and readiness for expanded responsibilities.
Successfully transitioned from supporting purchasing for one facility to managing the purchasing for over 5 facilities on the Cardinal team, gaining comprehensive knowledge of both the vendor side and cardinal health side of the purchasing process.
Provided guidance and support to interns.
Contributed to training new Cardinal team member though shadowing sessions.
Written recognition from colleagues and the facilities.
Was selected to participate in the 2025 mentorship program.
Certification
Certified Nursing Assistant
CPR/First Aid
Languages
English
Timeline
Purchasing Specialist II
Universal Health Services
03.2023 - Current
Quality Assurance Specialist
Actalent Scientific
03.2022 - 09.2022
Certified Nursing Assistant
Ann's Choice, Erickson Living
05.2011 - 06.2023
Master of Science - Clinical Research Administration
Walden University
Bachelor of Science -
African Methodist Episcopal University