Senior Director, Global Supply Chain

Bio-Techne • Minneapolis, MN

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About The Position

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 Sr. Director of Global Supply Chain is the enterprise owner of the company’s supply chain operating model, responsible for how planning, distribution, intercompany flows, inventory frameworks, and systems work together globally. This role designs, governs, and scales the enterprise supply chain to deliver reliable service, disciplined working capital performance, and sustainable results without reliance on heroics or constant escalation. This role holds enterprise authority for supply chain design, planning assumptions, network strategy, and systems standards, and leads the development of enterprise inventory principles and tradeoff frameworks. Inventory positioning decisions are made in partnership with business units, with this role responsible for ensuring alignment, transparency, and consistency with enterprise strategy. The role is intentionally not a global coordinator or escalation sink. Success is defined by building clear decision rights, scalable operating rhythms, and leadership capability so the organization performs consistently without dependence on a single individual. The successful candidate combines strategic systems thinking with hands-on credibility, strong coaching capability, and the ability to drive decisive enterprise alignment when tradeoffs arise. Collaboration is essential, but clarity, accountability, and disciplined decision-making are required. Role Boundaries & Operating Intent To prevent matrix failure, the following boundaries apply: Enterprise Supply Chain (this role): Owns system design, global standards, planning logic, tradeoff frameworks, and performance governance. Business Units: Retain final accountability for inventory positioning and commercial tradeoffs within enterprise frameworks. Sites & Regions: Own day-to-day execution, recovery, and local optimization within defined enterprise standards. Escalations: Come to this role only when decisions span regions, business units, or require enterprise-level alignment. This role enables strong site and BU leadership; it does not compensate for weak execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, or MBA preferred.
• 12–15+ years of enterprise or global supply chain leadership across planning, distribution, and systems.
• Demonstrated experience leading in a matrixed organization with shared accountability models.
• Proven ability to design scalable operating models, not just run them.
• Strong record of coaching leaders while driving alignment and accountability.
• High credibility with operations leaders and executive stakeholders.
• Clear communicator with the maturity to balance collaboration, authority, and influence.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Supply Chain Architecture & Control Own the enterprise supply chain operating model, defining how planning, distribution, intercompany flows, inventory frameworks, and systems integrate globally. Establish and maintain enterprise standards for SIOP, inventory principles, network design, and systems architecture. Lead enterprise-level tradeoff discussions when service, cost, inventory, or capacity objectives conflict, ensuring alignment and clarity across stakeholders.
• Global Distribution, Intercompany & OEM Governance Own the enterprise design and performance governance for global distribution and intercompany flows, with direct accountability for Europe distribution (Dublin, IE) and intercompany operations (Abingdon, UK). Set global standards and escalation authority for APAC distribution (Shanghai), with a defined, phased path toward deeper ownership as the organization matures. Own the U.S.-based OEM site as a strategic supply chain capability and reference model for planning, systems, and execution discipline. Ensure global product flows are reliable, compliant, and scalable across regions and business units.
• Global SIOP, Inventory Strategy & Network Design Build and govern the global SIOP program, planning assumptions, decision rights, and outputs. Define enterprise inventory principles, segmentation logic, and intercompany flow frameworks in partnership with business units. Lead long-range capacity, footprint, and network design decisions supported by scenario analysis and clearly articulated tradeoffs.
• Enterprise Data, Systems & Planning Logic Own supply chain ERP/MES architecture, master data standards, and rollout sequencing. Decide what is standardized globally versus locally configured. Ensure end-to-end visibility that enables decision-making, not just reporting.
• Leadership of a High-Performance Enterprise Team Coach and develop a strong bench of enterprise supply chain leaders capable of operating independently across regions and business units. Balance coaching and development with decisiveness, accountability, and enforcement of agreed enterprise standards. Build succession strength and reduce reliance on individual heroics through system ownership and capability development.
• Performance Governance & Tradeoff Management Establish enterprise operating rhythms, performance reviews, and escalation criteria. Prioritize KPIs to enable clear tradeoffs when metrics conflict: Tier 1: Service reliability (OTIF), global SIOP adherence Tier 2: Inventory turns, working capital, intercompany performance Tier 3: Cost, productivity, systems milestones Drive continuous improvement through governance, clarity, and system maturity rather than intervention.

Benefits

• We offer competitive insurance benefits starting on day one: medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability, pet, and legal and ID shield.
• We invest in our employees’ financial futures through 401k plans, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), Health Saving Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and Dependent Care FSA.
• We empower our employees develop their careers through mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, tuition reimbursement, 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 offer an accrued leave policy with paid holidays, paid time off, and paid parental leave.
• We foster a culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees