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 **Education and Experience:** + Bachelors Degree or equivalent (AA degree plus APICS certification with a minimum of 4 years of related experience + ERP knowledge, Microsoft Dynamics preferred + 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 salaries along with extensive medical, vision, and dental plans for you and your family starting on day one! + We invest in our employees’ financial futures through 401k matching and an employee stock purchase plan. + We help our employees develop their careers through mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, 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 foster a culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table. 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. Bio-Techne is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. Bio-Techne empowers researchers in Life Science and Clinical Diagnostics by providing high-quality reagents, instruments, custom manufacturing, and testing services. Our family of brands creates a unique portfolio of products and services. Science is our passion; it drives us to collaborate, develop, and manufacture award-winning tools that help researchers achieve reproducible and consistent results.