Senior Planner

Bio-Techne Sales Forecast And Master Production Schedule Planner

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 : $69,800.00 - $114,800.00

Position Summary

The responsibilities of this position are to prepare and maintain sales forecast and MPS for kits; production schedules for components, capacity plan for all; provide oversight and problem solving for planners. Provide backup guidance and JSA enforcement. Perform additional duties as assigned.

Essential Functions

• Management of special requirements of high complexity for OEM customers and distributors (i.e., lead-times, lot number, expiration dates). Represent planning team in customer facing meetings as needed.
• Taking on difficult new SKUs and product families independently.
• Employee is expected to be highly independent on complex / custom customer orders while developing others in these inquiries.
• Having extensive knowledge of Bio-Techne software and participated in improvements to the software.
• Ability to troubleshoot novel and highly difficult situations independently. Upon solving problems, making changes to standard practices to mitigate future issues.
• Determine the start date, due date and quantity of each item to be manufactured based on master production schedule. Using planning principles, effectively manage and help others on customer and internal requirements while optimizing inventory value and minimizing scrap.
• Maintain a forecast and safety stock levels using historical sales data while analyzing large amounts of data using our databases and Excel spreadsheets effectively.
• Implementing measures and changes to continuously improve the department.
• Manage open production orders, past due production orders, past due planned orders.
• Communicate and outline expectations with relevant manufacturing, quality and customer care teams while influencing the teams on changes.
• Monitor and achieve Key Performance Indicators (KPI), including daily review of customer backorders
• Identify expired Items, salvage useable components, and re-work when possible.
• Perform rough cut capacity planning in coordination with all work centers. Make re-schedule decision as needed
• Perform user acceptance testing and functionality of IT-related projects. Propose future IT-related projects.
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve issues of high complexity independently
• Lead continuous process improvement initiatives and troubleshoot problems. Develop project plan and assign actions to project team members. Influence cross functional teams to drive change within the organization.
• Lead meetings and collaborate with other departments on initiatives, coordinate activity of multiple departments and to influence change initiatives that would impact multiple departments.
• 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 the team and other departments for this.
• Demonstrated ability to complete all duties of the Planner II role with a keen understanding of how Planning fits in with other departments.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Job Specifications

Why Join Bio-Techne

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.