Global Procurement Leader: Sourcing, Strategy & Growth

Gtifabrication; Arizona; On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k) with company match

PTO and holidays

Life insurance

Job summary

GTI Fabrication designs, engineers, and manufactures complex modular systems. GTI is seeking a Purchasing leader in Arizona to own daily procurement for sheet metal, manage supplier performance, and ensure material continuity across multiple facilities.

Ideal candidates have 6–10+ years in manufacturing purchasing, strong ERP/MRP experience, and proven leadership of multi-site teams. This high-impact role offers competitive pay and growth in strategic sourcing across modular systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field.
• 6–10+ years of purchasing, procurement, or supply chain experience.
• 2+ years of leadership experience managing teams.
• Manufacturing, industrial, or engineered-to-order purchasing background.
• Strong ERP/MRP experience.
• Strong negotiation, supplier management, and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily purchasing operations for the Sheet Metal spend category.
• Prevent shortages impacting production schedules, launches, or customer commitments.
• Establish clear purchasing priorities aligned to production demand and business needs.
• Manage supplier performance related to cost, quality, delivery, responsiveness, and lead time adherence.
• Lead pricing negotiations, commercial issue resolution, and annual cost improvement initiatives.
• Develop alternate sources, dual-source strategies, and supplier recovery plans.
• Build strong supplier relationships while holding accountability to performance standards.
• Partner with Planning and Operations to balance inventory turns, stock availability, and working capital objectives.
• Improve supplier on-time delivery, shortage reduction, aged inventory, and purchase price variance metrics.
• Use ERP/MRP signals to drive disciplined replenishment and procurement timing.
• Lead Purchasing Coordinators/Specialists for the Metal Category.
• Build accountability, urgency, communication discipline, and execution consistency.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and growth of the purchasing organization.
• Partner with Engineering on technical sourcing, alternates, and new product introduction (NPI) launches.
• Work with Finance on accruals, payment issues, savings tracking, and inventory valuation impacts.
• Coordinate with Warehouse and Receiving teams on inbound flow and supplier execution issues.
• Support leadership on escalations, supply constraints, and strategic sourcing initiatives.

Skills

ERP/MRP systems

Negotiation

Supplier management

Analytical skills

Leadership

Manufacturing purchasing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field

Tools

ERP/MRP

Job description

GTI Fabrication designs, engineers, and manufactures complex modular systems. GTI is seeking a Purchasing leader in Arizona to own daily procurement for sheet metal, manage supplier performance, and ensure material continuity across multiple facilities.

Ideal candidates have 6–10+ years in manufacturing purchasing, strong ERP/MRP experience, and proven leadership of multi-site teams. This high-impact role offers competitive pay and growth in strategic sourcing across modular systems.