Planning & Purchasing Manager

By joining Bio-Techne youll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne and all of its brands provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.

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Position Summary

The Planning & Purchasing Manager is responsible for managing purchasing replenishment planning support supplier relationship management and material availability activities for the Denver site. This role supports customer fulfillment production readiness inventory health and backlog reduction in a life sciences environment.

A key focus of this role is actively managing and strengthening supplier relationships to improve on time delivery lead time reliability responsiveness and overall supply performance. Success in this role requires strong purchasing discipline proactive supplier management accurate ERP data inventory awareness and a structured operating cadence that identifies risks early drives timely action improves material availability reduces supply related backlog risk and supports reliable customer fulfillment.

Denver operates a buy relabel and resell business model with a focused group of critical stocked products and a large number of lower volume SKUs. This role partners closely with Customer Service Warehouse Operations Finance and Suppliers to ensure reliable execution and continuous improvement across the supply chain. The position is expected to strengthen supplier performance improve purchasing execution enhance inventory performance and create clear visibility to supply risks while driving accountability across the supply chain.

This role reports to the Senior Manager Denver Operations and Supply Chain.

Core Accountabilities

Planning Purchasing & Supplier Management

• Manage daily purchasing activities ensuring purchase orders are placed maintained and executed accurately.

• Build and maintain strong supplier relationships to improve delivery performance lead time reliability responsiveness and overall execution.

• Serve as the key owner for supplier relationship management and supplier follow up for assigned suppliers with a focus on improving supplier on time delivery and supply reliability.

• Manage open purchase orders supplier commitments delivery schedules and supply risks to support material availability and customer fulfillment.

• Monitor supplier performance identify recurring issues and work collaboratively with suppliers to drive corrective actions and service improvements.

• Lead regular supplier reviews escalation discussions and recovery planning for suppliers with recurring delivery or responsiveness issues.

• Maintain purchasing parameters lead times safety stock inputs and other ERP planning data to support replenishment accuracy.

• Partner with Planning to translate demand requirements and backlog priorities into effective purchasing and replenishment actions.

• Drive improvements in supplier on time delivery and purchasing execution to reduce material shortages late deliveries and supply related backlog risks.

Inventory Service & Operational Execution

• Support inventory health through effective replenishment purchasing discipline and proactive risk management.

• Monitor inventory levels stockout risks excess inventory and material constraints taking action to minimize service disruptions.

• Partner with Customer Service Warehouse and Operations to resolve supply issues order delays and material shortages.

• Provide visibility to supply risks material availability and recovery plans through daily and weekly operating reviews.

• Support month end and quarter end execution by identifying and mitigating material related risks.

• Help improve inventory performance and material availability while supporting reliable customer fulfillment and operational readiness.

Metrics Systems & Continuous Improvement

• Maintain accurate purchasing supplier and inventory data within Microsoft Dynamics AX or other ERP systems.

• Track and report key metrics including supplier on time delivery open purchase orders lead time adherence inventory availability and supply risks.

• Partner with the enterprise data analytics team to support reporting through Excel Power BI Smartsheet or similar platforms improving visibility to supplier purchasing inventory and supply risk metrics.

• Identify process gaps data issues and operational bottlenecks and lead targeted continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen purchasing planning and inventory performance.

• Establish and maintain standard work for purchasing supplier management reporting and escalation processes.

• Improve ERP data accuracy and reporting visibility to support better decision making accountability and proactive risk management.

Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Manage coach and develop purchasing team members in daily execution prioritization and issue resolution.

• Provide coaching and guidance to strengthen purchasing planning ERP and supplier management capabilities.

• Set clear expectations for team performance supplier follow up purchasing discipline escalation and follow through.

• Collaborate effectively with Planning Customer Service Warehouse Operations Finance and suppliers to achieve site objectives.

• Promote a culture of accountability urgency teamwork and continuous improvement.

• Help establish a disciplined operating rhythm that provides clear visibility to supply risks drives ownership of actions and supports consistent execution across functions.

Education & Experience

• Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Business Operations or a related field preferred.

• 5 years of experience in purchasing procurement planning inventory management supply chain operations supplier management or materials management.

• 5 years of demonstrated experience managing supplier relationships improving supplier delivery performance and driving supplier accountability preferred.

• 3 years of leadership experience managing supervising or leading buyers planners purchasing teams or supply chain personnel preferred.

• Demonstrated success managing supplier relationships and improving delivery performance responsiveness and supply reliability.

• Experience managing or leading buyers planners purchasing teams or supply chain personnel preferred.

• Experience with ERP systems required; Microsoft Dynamics AX experience preferred.

• Strong analytical problem solving organizational and communication skills.

• Advanced Excel skills required; Power BI Smartsheet or similar reporting tools preferred.

• Lean continuous improvement distribution life sciences or regulated industry experience preferred.

Why Join Bio-Techne:

• We offer competitive insurance benefits starting on day one: medical dental vision life short-term disability long-term disability pet and legal and ID shield.

• We invest in our employees financial futures through 401k plans an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) Health Saving Account (HSA) Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Dependent Care FSA.

• We empower our employees develop their careers through mentorship promotional opportunities training and development tuition reimbursement internship programs and more.

• We offer employee resource groups volunteer paid time off employee events and charity drives to build a culture of caring and belonging.

• We offer an accrued leave policy with paid holidays paid time off and paid parental leave.

• We foster a culture of empowerment and innovation where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.

Bio-Techne is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.

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