Planning Manager

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.

Salary Range: $115K-170K depending on experience

Position Summary:

Must be able to collaborate with the management team to help deliver and execute measurable and cost-effective results for our life science clients. 

Customer Relationship
Personal Evolution
Autonomy
Administrative Work
Technical Expertise

They will be expected to:

  • Serves as a primary point of contact for and liaison with procurement, sales, logistics, and manufacturing departments.
  • Responsible for coordinating the day-to-day activities of a manufacturing or production facility.
  • Duties include developing daily production schedules, managing inventory to maintain appropriate levels, and coordinating the availability of raw materials for the production process.
  • Participates in periodic forecasting meetings with sales, marketing, and other related departments; leads additional planning meetings with sales, production, shipping, purchasing, and customer service staff.
  • Collaborates with these departments to establish schedules and plans that allocate available resources to best serve customer needs
  • Ensure conformance with all ISO requirements

Key Responsibilities:

  • Update quarterly production plan weekly
  • Hold weekly instrument planning meetings
  • Modify production plan when necessary to meet service level targets
  • Notify OM whenever instrument lead times extend beyond standard lead times
  • Monitor quarter to date shipments versus sales forecast, and communicate with business unit leaders
  • Monitor quarter to date production plan adherence and communicate with manufacturing management if there are any concerns or questions
  • Modify production plan based upon manufacturing capacity
  • Modify production plan when Line Down Shortages are communicated by purchasing
  • Participate in periodic Revenue Roll Call Meetings (Sales Forecasting) and make necessary modifications to the production plan
  • Publish key metrics monthly and at quarter end, such as forecast accuracy and production plan adherence, $ and line backorders, with pareto analyses for “misses”.
  • Maintain aggregate FRU (Field Replaceable Units – spare part assemblies) production plan to meet service level targets and constrain by production line capacity and material shortages
  • Perform analyses as requested to help determine part availability for supply risk items and lead discussions on how to allocate parts between instrument and FRU production.
  • Maintain instrument refurb plan constrained by production line capacity and material shortages
  • Collaborate with query developers (supply chain analyst) to create/modify queries to improve planning process.
  • Will assist with implementation of improved ERP/MRP systems.
  • Communicate with other departments within the organization to identify efficiency issues, develop solutions, and implement changes
  • Monitor and collect data on current operations, including scheduling, sourcing, warehousing, production, and delivery
  • Evaluate and alert the internal team about supply risk. Propose and execute action plans to mitigate.
  • Work with the procurement, logistics, materials management and IT departments to enhance service delivery
  • Ensuring accurate analysis material availability to meet internal and external demand
  • Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, logistics, business management or related fields. Supply chain management certification is preferred
  • Four or more years’ experience in a supply management role or related position.
  • Proven knowledge of inventory management
  • Experience analyzing business improvement
  • Excellent mathematical and analytical skill
  • Project management
  • Must have strong MS Excel, MS Access, MS Power BI skills or other
  • Working knowledge of data analysis and forecasting tools and ability to develop actionable insights from data
  • Interpersonal skills and ability to build and improve trusting relationships
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Thorough understanding of the business and supply chain.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Extremely proficient with production planning systems, such as MRP II.
  • Ability to troubleshoot issues of high complexity
  • Ability to build key cross-functional relationships as a key data analyst support partner

Where permitted by applicable law, candidate must have received or be willing to receive an FDA authorized COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered for this position.

Bio-Techne is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.