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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:

$153,300.00 - $251,850.00

Position Summary:

The Director of Manufacturing is responsible for overseeing and optimizing manufacturing operations for reagents at our Minneapolis headquarters. The Minneapolis site serves as our corporate headquarters and future Reagents Focused Factory, where we manufacture and ship recombinant proteins, antibodies, ELISA kits, Luminex assays, cell culture media, and other products that are used in academic research, bio-pharma drug discovery, quality control, and more. You will be responsible for leading and executing strategies to meet the demand of our high-mix product lines, including ELISA kits, Luminex assays, and other protein analysis product. This includes developing a strong, capable team, driving operational excellence, and managing both capital and operating budgets. Success in this role requires consistently delivering on key performance metrics—safety, quality, delivery, and cost—with urgency and discipline, while collaborating effectively across Quality, Planning, Supply Chain, and Engineering.

The ideal candidate is a strong operations leader with a bias for action and a track record of delivering measurable results. He/she is recognized as a collaborative, detail-oriented leader who communicates clearly and understand both the big picture and operational details. Prior experience leading complex, technical manufacturing across product lines is highly preferred, along with the ability to apply structured problem-solving to focus the organization on the most critical priorities.

Key Responsibilities

+  Lead day-to-day operations for proteinanalysisreagent manufacturing, including bottling, labeling, and final kit packaging, spanning multiple product lines across the entire site.

+ Partner across functions to streamline processes, reduce variability, and improve delivery performance.

+ Build and coach a high-performing team focused on accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.

+ Bring structure and discipline to operations—leveragingSOPs, KPIs, tier meetings, and visual management systems.

+ Champion process improvements using lean manufacturing, or other data-driven methodologies.

+ Manage capacity planning, budgeting, and staffing to support growth and operational scale.

+ Ensure compliance with internal quality systems and applicable industry standards (ISO 9001, ISO 13485).

+ Collaborate with leadership on strategy, infrastructure planning, and organizational priorities.

What** **We’re** **Looking For

+ 7+ years of leadership experience in manufacturing operations, ideally within biotech, life sciences, or similarly complex environments

+ Strong understanding of downstream processing, with exposure to automation preferred

+ Proven ability to lead and grow diverse operations teams while fostering a high-performance, engaged culture

+ Demonstrated success in attracting, developing, andretainingtop talent

+ Skilled in operational systems, production metrics, and structured problem-solving, with experience managing multiple complex product lines

+ Track recordof driving continuous improvement through KPIs and data-driven decision making

+ Experience leading in regulated settings (RUO; IVD or GMP exposure is a plus)

+ Financial acumen in budgeting, expense management, and forecasting

+ History of successfully introducingnew technologiesinto manufacturing and scaling processes effectively

+ Comfortable managing change and guiding cultural evolution within dynamic organizations

+ Strong communicator with high integrity, emotional intelligence, and a collaborative, cross-functional mindset

+ Excellent project management, organizational, and change leadership skills

Education

Bachelor's degree required (engineering, chemistry, biology, or business preferred); Advanced degree or MBA is a plus.

Why Join Bio-Techne:

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.

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. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Bio-Techne will be considered Bio-Techne property.

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.