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 - $144,000.00POSITION 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
- BS 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
- MS in Supply Chain
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics AX (or similar ERP).
- Lean / Six Sigma exposure (or strong continuous improvement toolkit).
- APICS / ASCM certification (CPIM/CSCP) or equivalent.
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
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.
