Biotechne

Biotechne

Planning & Purchasing Manager

Denver, CO

Sponsorship not specified$88k-$144kDetected 30 days ago
Data AnalysisData VisualizationExcelSupply ChainProcurementERPInventory ManagementCustomer SupportCadenceResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring

About the role

  • 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.
  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • The Planning & Purchasing Manager is responsible for managing purchasing, replenishment planning support, supplier relationship management, and material availability activities for the Denver site.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Skills

  • Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.

Compensation

  • $87,600.00 - $144,000.00 Position Summary

Benefits

  • 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.
  • This role supports customer fulfillment, production readiness, inventory health, and backlog reduction in a life sciences environment.
  • Maintain purchasing parameters, lead times, safety stock inputs, and other ERP planning data to support replenishment accuracy.
  • Support inventory health through effective replenishment, purchasing discipline, and proactive risk management.

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