Director of Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning; SIOP

GTI is a contract manufacturing partner supporting customers in renewable energy, power generation, infrastructure, and industrial systems.

We fabricate custom designed, purpose-built enclosures and skids for our customers and perform mechanical and electrical integration in-house, delivering a true turn‑key product to our customers. Our scope spans Engineering, prototype builds, through full production, requiring teams that can move fast, adapt, and execute with precision.

GTI Values:
Safey I Quality I Customer Obsession I Speed I Agility

GTI is seeking a Director of Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SOP) to lead the company's integrated planning process across Sales, Program Management, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, and Executive Leadership. This leader will establish and drive a best‑in‑class SOP process that aligns customer demand, production capacity, material availability, inventory strategy, and financial performance into a single executable operating plan.

The Director of SOP will own the monthly SOP cadence, lead executive planning reviews, develop long‑range capacity planning strategies, and create visibility into demand, supply, inventory, labor, and manufacturing constraints. This role is highly cross‑functional and will serve as the operational quarterback responsible for ensuring GTI can execute its aggressive growth plans while maintaining customer commitments and operational efficiency.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience leading SOP or Integrated Business Planning (IBP) within complex manufacturing, contract manufacturing, industrial equipment, or engineered‑to‑order environments.

• Own and continuously improve GTI's Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SOP) process across all manufacturing facilities
• Lead the monthly SOP cycle, including Demand Review, Supply Review, Inventory Review, Executive SOP, and action tracking
• Develop an integrated operating plan balancing customer demand, manufacturing capacity, material availability, labor, and financial objectives
• Drive executive decision‑making through structured planning reviews and scenario analysis
• Establish standardized planning processes, KPIs, governance, and reporting across the organization

• Partner with Sales, Business Development, Program Management, and Executive Leadership to develop rolling demand forecasts
• Consolidate customer forecasts, backlog, pipeline, and production demand into executable manufacturing plans
• Analyze forecast accuracy, demand variability, and customer trends to improve planning performance
• Develop demand scenarios supporting growth, seasonality, customer changes, and market conditions
• Improve forecast accuracy through data analysis and cross‑functional collaboration

• Lead enterprise supply planning activities across procurement, production planning, inventory, and manufacturing operations
• Balance customer demand against labor, equipment, facility, supplier, and inventory constraints
• Develop capacity models supporting fabrication, welding, paint, electrical integration, mechanical assembly, and final system build operations
• Identify bottlenecks and capacity limitations before they impact customer deliveries
• Recommend investments in labor, equipment, automation, inventory, or suppliers to support future growth

• Establish inventory strategies that balance customer service, working capital, and manufacturing efficiency
• Monitor inventory health, excess inventory, slow‑moving materials, shortages, and safety stock levels
• Partner with Procurement and Materials Management to improve inventory turns and material availability
• Drive inventory optimization initiatives across all facilities
• Support strategic sourcing decisions impacting inventory and manufacturing performance

• Prepare executive‑level reporting summarizing demand, supply, inventory, capacity, backlog, and operational performance
• Lead Executive SOP meetings with senior leadership
• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and planning metrics that…