Senior Buyer - Life Sciences

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San Marcos, CA
In-Office
73K-120K Annually
Senior level
Biotech
The Role
The Senior Buyer manages purchasing, production planning, inventory supply, vendor management, and leads continuous improvement initiatives to optimize processes and resources.
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:

$73,100.00 - $120,200.00

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

  • Manages the purchase and production plan to ensure inventory supply through the analysis of consumption, reorder points and order quantities
  • Maintain a forecast and safety stock levels. Incorporate historical sales and forward-looking forecasts from commercial teams
  • Submits purchase orders for direct and indirect materials
  • Compile and analyze data to perform price analysis, make source selections, and procurement justifications
  • Maintain a forecast and safety stock levels using historical sales data
  • Manage open orders, including past due production and purchase orders
  • Interact with OEM vendors to manage production and fulfillment schedules
  • Communicate expectations with relevant vendors, quality and customer care teams
  • Monitor and achieve Key Performance Indicators (KPI), including daily review of customer backorders
  • Identify expired Items, salvage useable components, and re-work when possible
  • Maintain ERP data fields used to support purchasing and production planning
  • Troubleshoot ERP errors for team
  • Assist in launch of new products
  • Ability to troubleshoot and solve issues of moderate complexity independently
  • Lead projects and new initiatives for the department
  • Redesign workflows to optimize for time, cost, or resource savings.
  • Train teams on effective planning and purchasing techniques
  • Utilize problem solving and continuous improvement techniques to eliminate waste
  • Lead continuous improvement initiatives
  • Follow company policies, practices and safety guidelines as outlined.
  • Demonstrates EPIC values and is recognized by others for this
  • Demonstrated ability to complete all duties of the Advanced Buyer/Planner role
  • Perform additional duties as assigned.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Education and Experience:

  • Bachelors Degree or equivalent (AA degree plus APICS certification with a minimum of 5 to 8 4+ years of related experience)
  • 5+ years of relevant experience
  • ERP Expertise, Microsoft Dynamics
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft office with advanced excel skills 
  • Familiarity with ISO and cGMP requirements
  •  Lean manufacturing experience
  •  Strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • Familiarity with ISO and cGMP requirements
  •  Lean manufacturing experience
  •  Strong analytical and problem solving skills

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

Advanced Excel
Erp
Microsoft Dynamics
MS Office
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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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