Planning & Purchasing Manager

About the role

The Planning & Purchasing Manager at Bio-Techne is responsible for managing purchasing, replenishment planning support, supplier relationship management, and material availability activities for the Denver site. This role supports customer fulfillment, production readiness, inventory health, and backlog reduction in a life sciences environment.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Serve as the key owner for supplier relationship management and supplier follow up for assigned suppliers, with a focus on improving supplier on time delivery and supply reliability.
• Manage open purchase orders, supplier commitments, delivery schedules, and supply risks to support material availability and customer fulfillment.
• Maintain purchasing parameters, lead times, safety stock inputs, and other ERP planning data to support replenishment accuracy.
• Partner with Planning to translate demand requirements and backlog priorities into effective purchasing and replenishment actions.
• Drive improvements in supplier on time delivery and purchasing execution to reduce material shortages, late deliveries, and supply related backlog risks.
• Inventory, Service & Operational Execution Support:
  • Monitor inventory levels, stockout risks, excess inventory, and material constraints, taking action to minimize service disruptions.
  • Partner with Customer Service, Warehouse, and Operations to resolve supply issues, order delays, and material shortages.
  • Provide visibility to supply risks, material availability, and recovery plans through daily and weekly operating reviews.
  • Support month end and quarter end execution by identifying and mitigating material related risks.
• Metrics, Systems & Continuous Improvement:
  • Maintain accurate purchasing, supplier, and inventory data within Microsoft Dynamics AX or other ERP systems.
  • Track and report key metrics including supplier on time delivery, open purchase orders, lead time adherence, inventory availability, and supply risks.
  • Partner with the enterprise data analytics team to support reporting through Excel, Power BI, Smartsheet, or similar platforms, improving visibility to supplier, purchasing, inventory, and supply risk metrics.
  • Identify process gaps, data issues, and operational bottlenecks, and lead targeted continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen purchasing, planning, and inventory performance.
  • Establish and maintain standard work for purchasing, supplier management, reporting, and escalation processes.
  • Improve ERP data accuracy and reporting visibility to support better decision making, accountability, and proactive risk management.
• Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  • Manage, coach, and develop purchasing team members in daily execution, prioritization, and issue resolution.
  • Provide coaching and guidance to strengthen purchasing, planning, ERP, and supplier management capabilities.
  • Set clear expectations for team performance, supplier follow up, purchasing discipline, escalation, and follow through.
  • Collaborate effectively with Planning, Customer Service, Warehouse, Operations, Finance, and suppliers to achieve site objectives.
  • Promote a culture of accountability, urgency, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations, or a related field preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in purchasing, procurement, planning, inventory management, supply chain operations, supplier management, or materials management.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience managing supplier relationships, improving supplier delivery performance, and driving supplier accountability preferred.
• 3+ years of leadership experience managing, supervising, or leading buyers, planners, purchasing teams, or supply chain personnel preferred.
• Demonstrated success managing supplier relationships and improving delivery performance, responsiveness, and supply reliability.
• Experience managing or leading buyers, planners, purchasing teams, or supply chain personnel preferred.
• Experience with ERP systems required; Microsoft Dynamics AX experience preferred.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, organizational, and communication skills.
• Advanced Excel skills required; Power BI, Smartsheet, or similar reporting tools preferred.
• Leverage in lean, continuous improvement, distribution, life sciences, or regulated industry preferred.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical, problem solving, organizational, and communication skills.
• Advanced Excel skills required; Power BI, Smartsheet, or similar reporting tools preferred.
• Leverage in lean, continuous improvement, distribution, life sciences, or regulated industry preferred.

Skills

• Supplier relationship management
• Inventory management
• Procurement
• Replenishment planning
• ERP systems
• Microsoft Dynamics AX

Benefits

• Competitive insurance benefits starting on day one: medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability, pet, and legal and ID shield.
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Dependent Care FSA.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• Paid holidays, paid time off, and paid parental leave.
• Employee resource groups, volunteer paid time off, employee events, and charity drives.

Pay

$87,600.00 - $144,000.00

Schedule

N/A