Human Resources Specialist

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Minneapolis, MN, USA
In-Office
56K-91K Annually
Junior
Biotech
The Role
The Human Resources Specialist supports HR operations, onboarding, compliance, and employee inquiries, enhancing overall employee experience and organizational efficiency.
Summary Generated by Built In

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:

$55,600.00 - $91,450.00

Bio‑Techne is seeking a proactive, detail‑oriented, and people‑focused Human Resources Specialist to join our global People Team on a full‑time basis. The Human Resources Specialist plays a key role in supporting core HR operations, employee lifecycle processes, and cross‑functional initiatives that enhance efficiency, compliance, and employee experience. This role partners closely with the broader People team to optimize workflows, maintain high-quality documentation, and support ongoing organizational programs.

This position is ideal for a motivated HR professional looking to grow their expertise across HR Centers of Excellence while directly influencing meaningful organizational improvements.

Key Responsibilities

  • Deliver seamless onboarding, offboarding and core HR operations processes
  • Audit and update employee information to maintain alignment with company standards, compliance requirements, and industry best practices
  • Serve as a first point of contact for employees, addressing day‑to‑day questions, system navigation needs, and policy inquiries while ensuring employees feel supported and informed.
  • Create, enhance, and standardize forms and SOPs in alignment with HR governance and quality standards
  • Conduct data audits, assist with system updates, and maintain data integrity while supporting reporting needs
  • Identify opportunities to streamline HR processes around onboarding, offboarding, documentation, propose solutions, and support implementation of new tools and practices
  • Collaborate with internal partners across departments to support HR programs, compliance activities and change management efforts.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
  • 1–2 years of HR experience preferred; internships, HR support roles, or relevant project experience welcomed.
  • Familiarity with HR systems (e.g., Workday) and data management tools (e.g., Smartsheet, Microsoft Excel) preferred

Skills & Competencies

  • Strong Organizational Skills: Ability to balance multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and maintain attention to detail.
  • Exceptional Communication: Clear written and verbal communication abilities, including comfort presenting information to small groups.
  • Analytical & Problem‑Solving: Capable of researching, analyzing, and resolving issues independently with sound judgment.
  • Collaboration & Relationship‑Building: Demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross‑functional teams and build positive working relationships.
  • Initiative & Ownership: Self‑starter who takes responsibility for outcomes and contributes proactively to team goals.
  • Adaptability: Comfortable working in a dynamic environment with evolving priorities.

Business Acumen: These tasks demonstrate awareness of business workflows, operational dependencies, and how HR supports the broader organization.

  • Conducting data audits and maintaining data integrity
  • Assisting with HR system updates and process documentation
  • Streamlining HR processes to create efficiency

Communication: These responsibilities require clear written and verbal communication, information sequencing, and context delivery.

  • “Serve as a first point of contact for employees… addressing day‑to‑day questions and policy inquiries”
  • Creating and standardizing SOPs and forms
  • Working with cross-functional partners

Customer Focus

Aligned responsibilities: This is direct internal customer service, with an emphasis on experience, guidance, and responsiveness.

  • Delivering seamless onboarding and offboarding
  • Being a first-line HR contact for employees
  • Ensuring employees feel informed and supported

Decision Making: These tasks require analyzing information, assessing risk, and choosing appropriate actions rooted in policy and compliance standards.

  • Auditing and updating employee records for compliance
  • Identifying opportunities to streamline HR processes
  • Proposing solutions and supporting tool implementation

Driving for Results: This role directly supports operational execution, SLAs, and quality standards essential for HR operations.

  • Maintaining data accuracy
  • Ensuring smooth lifecycle processes (onboarding/offboarding)
  • Supporting reporting needs
  • Producing high-quality documentation

Personal Growth: This shows a mindset of learning, improvement, and taking initiative—key components of Personal Growth.

  • “Identify opportunities to streamline HR processes…”
  • Enhancing and standardizing procedures
  • Supporting change management efforts

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.

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.

To protect the interests of all, Bio-Techne will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than a candidate application. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Bio-Techne will be considered Bio-Techne property.

Top Skills

Excel
Smartsheet
Workday
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The Company
HQ: Minneapolis, MN
2,512 Employees
Year Founded: 1981

What We Do

Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-quality purified proteins and reagent solutions - notably cytokines and growth factors, antibodies, immunoassays, biologically active small molecule compounds, tissue culture reagents, and cell and gene therapy workflow solutions including T-Cell activation technologies. Bio-Techne’s portfolio also includes protein analysis solutions, sold under the ProteinSimple brand name, that offer researchers efficient and streamlined options for automated Western blot and multiplexed ELISA workflow. These reagent and protein analysis solutions are sold to biomedical researchers, as well as clinical research laboratories, and constitute the Protein Sciences Segment. Bio-Techne also develops and manufactures diagnostic products including FDA-regulated controls, calibrators, blood gas and clinical chemistry controls, and other reagents for OEM and clinical customers. Bio-Techne’s genomic tools include advanced tissue-based in situ hybridization assays (ISH) for research and clinical use, sold under the ACD brand, as well as a portfolio of clinical molecular diagnostic oncology assays including the ExoDx®Prostate (IntelliScore) test (EPI) for prostate cancer diagnosis. These diagnostic and genomic products comprise Bio-Techne’s Diagnostics and Genomics Segment. Bio-Techne products are integral components of scientific investigations into biological processes and molecular diagnostics, revealing the nature, diagnosis, etiology and progression of specific diseases. They aid in drug discovery efforts and provide the means for accurate clinical tests and diagnoses. With thousands of products in its portfolio, Bio-Techne generated approximately $714 million in net sales in fiscal 2019 and has over 2,200 employees worldwide.

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