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.

Position Summary:

The Buyer is responsible for direct and indirect material purchasing, forecasting, and inventory management to support day-to-day operations. Essential to this role is an ability to leverage Supply Chain and ERP expertise in a regulated environment to ensure compliance by leveraging supplier relationships, material management, and replenishment planning.

 

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. Assist in launch of new kits. Ability to troubleshoot and solve issues of high complexity independently Assist in launch of new kits. Train and mentor other planners and act as a SME for the planning team. May lead projects and new initiatives for the department 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 Planner role Perform additional duties as assigned