Planning & Purchasing Manager

Planning & Purchasing Manager

By joining Bio-Techne, you'll 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. Pay Range: $87,600.00 - $

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.

• Planning, Purchasing & Supplier Management
• Inventory, Service & Operational Execution
• Metrics, Systems & Continuous Improvement
• Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration

Bachelor's 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.

We offer competitive insurance benefits starting on day one: medical, dental, vision, life, short‑term disability, long‑term disability, pet, and legal and d. 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. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.