Planning Manager

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Minneapolis, MNtime type:
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Posted Yesterday job requisition :
JR101470
** 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
** What makes this role exciting
** Planning is the control tower of our supply chain: connecting demand, supply, manufacturing, quality, and customer commitments to keep the business running and customers supported.

This role is ideal for a seasoned planning leader who thrives in change environments: someone who can engage and motivate a team, enable performance, and raise capability. You will lead the planning team through a transformation toward stronger execution discipline, data-driven decision making, and consistent cross-functional partnership.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
** What you will do
** Change leadership
* Lead the evolution of the planning organization by establishing an operating model aligned to business growth and customer needs.
* Reset expectations and standard work across planning to improve predictability, accountability, and execution.
* Drive adoption of best practices across forecasting, MRP execution, and inventory.
* Identify systemic gaps and translate them into practical, measurable improvement plans with clear owners and timelines.

Engage & motivate the team
* Build a high-performing team culture grounded in ownership, transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
* Coach and develop planners through structured 1:1s, clear performance expectations, and individualized growth plans.
* Strengthen team capability by setting standards for planning excellence and accountability.
* Provide timely, direct feedback and recognize great work.

Drive Execution Discipline
* Establish and run a planning operating rhythm (weekly/monthly cadence) that drives action, decision-making, and follow-through across the team.
* Monitor and improve key planning performance indicators.
* Lead the team through high-pressure execution windows (EOQ, constrained supply) with structured prioritization and disciplined closure.

Establish & maintain cross-functional partnerships
* Partner closely with Manufacturing, QC, Customer Service, Commercial, Procurement, and Finance to align priorities and manage constraints.
* Build strong working relationships across teams and ensure commitments are realistic and achievable.
* Lead cross-functional alignment on demand prioritization, capacity constraints, and customer commitments; ensuring clarity of trade-offs and decision rights.

Bring advanced planning and inventory optimization expertise
* Provide functional leadership in forecasting, scheduling, MRP execution, and replenishment strategy; ensuring decisions reflect operational constraints, risk, and customer need.
* Partner with IT and stakeholders to optimize ERP planning functionality, improve data quality, and increase system-driven planning maturity.
* Ensure planning processes are scalable and resilient as the business grows.

QUALIFICATIONS
** Required
* ** Masters degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
* 7–10+ years of progressive production planning or demand management experience in a manufacturing environment (regulated / life sciences preferred).
* Previous supervisory experience is essential, including coaching, management, and change leadership.
* Strong understanding of MRP/ERP planning principles and experience leading teams in system-driven execution.
* Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and lead through complexity and competing priorities.
* Strong analytical capability; comfortable using data to drive decisions and accountability.
** Preferred
* ** Experience with Microsoft Dynamics AX (or similar ERP).
* Lean / Six Sigma exposure (or strong continuous improvement toolkit).
* APICS / ASCM certification (CPIM/CSCP) or equivalent.
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