Sourcing Manager Ag & Chemical Inputs

Sourcing Manager

• Ag & Chemical Inputs HUMA, Inc.

| Gilbert, AZ | Full-Time | 4/9s Schedule (Most Fridays Off) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

READ THIS FIRST

This role is not a fit if your background is primarily in aerospace, defense, automotive, electronics, or large-scale manufacturing parts procurement. The materials, vendors, markets, and dynamics are fundamentally different here. This role is a strong fit if you have sourced raw materials, agricultural inputs, fertilizers, micronutrients, or specialty chemicals — and you know what it means when a supplier in India has a 3-month lead time and your busy season starts in 90 days. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

THIS IS A WORKING ROLE

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NO TEAM TO MANAGE

The internal title is Director of Sourcing & Supply Chain. You will carry that title and that ownership. What you will not have — at least for now — is a team to manage. You are the sourcing and procurement department. One person. No direct reports. You own strategy and execution simultaneously — that means you build the sourcing plan and you also issue the purchase orders. If you are looking for a team to delegate to, this is not that job. If you are a hands-on sourcing professional who knows ag and chemical inputs and wants to own a function at the director level, keep reading. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

ABOUT HUMA HUMA

is a U.S

• based mining, manufacturing, and novel technology company specializing in humic solutions — products built on humic substances (ancient oxidized carbons) that serve agricultural, environmental, and tech additive markets.

We are a growing mid-sized company with operations across Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. Learn more at huma.us. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

WHAT YOU WILL DO

You support multiple sites: a production facility in Gilbert (liquids and solids), a New Mexico mine & processing facility and the R D lab team. You are the single point of contact for sourcing and procurement across all of them.

Day-to-day sourcing:

• Monitor daily requisitions across sites and issue purchase orders through NetSuite
• Get price quotes, compare against commodity indices, and negotiate when pricing or lead times are off
• Manage inbound freight — negotiate with suppliers or source independently depending on rate
• Purchase chemicals, reactants, and lab supplies for the R D team
• Support the New Mexico mining operation with parts, equipment, and capital expense sourcing Supplier management:
• Maintain dual-source qualification for all critical raw materials
• Run a multi-step new supplier qualification process: validation, sampling, R D testing, regulatory compliance, pricing negotiation
• Attend industry events (fertilizer/ag-chem conferences); maintain active relationships with key suppliers
• Monitor commodity indices and market intelligence to get ahead of price movements Demand planning and inventory:
• Run quarterly horizon planning using 2 years of order history — materials come from Canada, Mexico, China, and India etc with lead times up to 3+ months
• Set per-material calendar checkpoints and communicate proactively with production on constraints
• Plan around seasonal demand and supplier shutdown windows (holidays, summer maintenance)
• Track inventory levels and balance working capital against stockout risk ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

WHAT YOU BRING

Required:

• Hands-on sourcing experience in agricultural inputs, fertilizers, specialty chemicals, or chemical manufacturing — this is not negotiable
• You have personally issued POs, negotiated contracts, and managed vendor relationships in an ag or chemical environment
• Strong lead time awareness — you manage horizons, not just open orders
• Ability to read commodity indices and use market intelligence to time purchasing decisions
• Experience with international supply chains (suppliers in multiple countries with variable lead times)
• NetSuite or comparable ERP experience
• Comfortable operating without systems doing the thinking for you — you build and own your own tracking
• Self-directed, adaptable, and calm under supply chain volatility
• High integrity: Choose Integrity | Win-Win-Win | Seek Innovation
• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, agronomy, chemistry, or related field Highly preferred (say so clearly in your application):
• Direct experience sourcing humic substances, micronutrients, potassium, calcium, or nitrogen-based inputs
• Familiarity with regulatory compliance requirements for ag-chem raw material switching
• Experience supporting multi-site procurement as a team of one
• History of building or running a formal supplier qualification process ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• Competitive pay based on experience
• Quarterly discretionary bonuses
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) with up to 6% company match
• 4/9s schedule — most Fridays off
• Generous PTO and sick leave ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If your background is in ag inputs, fertilizers, or specialty chemicals and you want to own a sourcing function at the director level — apply now

Pay:

$120,000.00

• $160,000.

00 per year

Benefits:

401(k) Dental insurance Health insurance Paid time off Vision insurance

Experience:

Purchasing:

5 years (Required) Supply chain: 3 years (Preferred) Ability to

Commute:

Gilbert, AZ 85233 (Required)

Work Location:

In person