Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Metals
About The Position
The Senior Global Sourcing Manager is the metals commodity expert for Anduril Industries, responsible for securing critical materials, components, and services. The role develops supplier and sourcing partnerships for new and existing products to improve technology, cost, and quality. It works across internal teams to assess supplier opportunities and establish accurate commercial agreements, intellectual property terms, and statements of work. The manager develops and executes sheet-metal commodity strategies covering stainless steel, aluminum, titanium, and other raw metals. Responsibilities span sourcing and supplier relationship management, cost and supply-chain analysis, technical and manufacturing collaboration, commercial negotiations, supplier performance, and sourcing support throughout the product lifecycle. The role also leads commodity reviews with executive staff and management and serves as the primary escalation point for the assigned commodities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of experience in supply-chain commodity management of raw metals and/or sourcing engineering.
- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.
- Ability to relocate, if not already local, to be onsite in Costa Mesa, California.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or metallurgical/materials engineering.
- Experience in defense, aerospace, automotive, high-tech, or a related industry.
- Well-versed in total cost of ownership analysis and data-driven component and supplier selection in a product-based ecosystem.
- Strategic thinker with experience developing commodity strategies or roadmaps with engineering stakeholders.
- Proven ability to lead and influence teams toward common goals and communicate and collaborate cross-functionally and across organizational levels.
- Adaptable team player able to work across functions to fill gaps and remove roadblocks.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute sheet-metal commodity strategies focused on cost reduction, technology development, quality improvement, and supply-chain resilience.
- Ensure quality materials and parts are delivered when needed and at the right cost.
- Serve as the sourcing expert for sheet metal and aggregate raw-metal usage across business units and the supply chain to develop company-wide strategies.
- Lead RFI, RFQ, RFP, and strategic sourcing processes for raw metals.
- Own external supplier business relationships, including continuity of supply, risk management, cost negotiations, and execution from NPI to mass production.
- Partner with Engineering and suppliers to influence technical design specifications and tailor product and manufacturing requirements.
- Analyze supplier quotations and cost breakdowns, examine supply-chain costs, and make data-driven decisions based on total cost of ownership.
- Work with cross-functional teams to support prototype requirements, meet build milestones, and lead sourcing activities.
- Influence supplier manufacturing processes, capital expenditure, and technology decisions.
- Negotiate supplier agreements covering pricing, quality, flexibility, delivery, payment, warranty, and service terms.
- Collaborate across the organization, negotiate tradeoffs, resolve problems, and advance new supplier or product offerings.
- Provide technical direction in the assigned commodities and guide product strategy throughout the product lifecycle.
- Lead operations efforts to develop new technologies and adapt existing technologies for Anduril.
- Develop and execute commercial agreements that set project expectations for fixed and variable costs, lead times, schedules, and manufacturing capacities.
- Conduct regular commodity reviews for executive staff and management.
- Manage supplier performance using delivery, quality, cost, and innovation metrics.
- Serve as the primary escalation point for the assigned commodities.
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are considered part of total compensation.
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, described as a comprehensive and competitive package available at little to no cost to employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
