Purchasing Program Manager

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:
Safety I Quality I Customer Obsession I Speed I Agility

The Purchasing Program Manager (PPM) is a program-dedicated procurement role created to close the material planning and visibility gap on projects. The PPM owns the end-to-end sourcing plan, purchase order visibility, and BOM-to-purchase integrity for the program across all three commodity groups. This role does not replace commodity management or program management — it provides the connective layer between them, ensuring that program commitments are grounded in real material lead times and that material status is visible before it becomes a shortage.

• Build, maintain, and execute the project sourcing plan across all three commodity groups, translating program milestones, build schedules, and bill of material requirements into time-phased purchasing actions.
• Align sourcing, purchase order placement, supplier lead times, and required delivery dates to the program schedule; identify timing gaps early and drive recovery plans before they affect production.
• Validate program commitments against quoted and demonstrated material lead times before dates are finalized, serving as the lead-time gate in scheduling, launch, and customer-commitment discussions.
• Evaluate material readiness at the program, build, and work-order level, distinguishing true clear-to-build status from items that remain exposed to supplier, engineering, logistics, or transactional risk.

• Own the program's single source of truth for on-order status by tracking open purchase orders, acknowledgements, promised dates, quantities, changes, and receipts against project build requirements.
• Develop and maintain program-level material dashboards and KPI reporting that provide clear visibility to shortages, late purchase orders, supplier constraints, uncommitted demand, and recovery actions.
• Use ERP/MRP data and advanced Excel analysis to identify exceptions, reconcile conflicting information, and surface risk before it impacts shop-floor throughput or customer delivery.
• Escalate material risk, supplier capacity constraints, and conflicts between program commitments and purchasing reality to the Vice President of Supply Chain with clear impact, ownership, and recommended actions.

• Drive BOM-to-purchase integrity for project by confirming that approved bill of material requirements are accurately represented in the ERP/MRP system and translated into appropriate purchase actions.
• Identify and resolve duplicate demand, duplicate purchase orders, quantity discrepancies, obsolete requirements, missing components, and other conditions that create cost, inventory, or production risk.
• Partner with Design Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials, and Supply Chain to ensure engineering changes are released with sufficient lead-time awareness and are reflected in open orders, cancellations, reschedules, and supplier communications.
• Apply Root Cause and Corrective Action methods to recurring BOM, purchasing, and material-visibility failures; implement standard work and controls that prevent recurrence.

• Act as the bridge…