Senior Manager, Industrial Capacity

Anduril Industries • Costa Mesa, CA

20h

About The Position

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on transforming military capabilities with advanced technology. This role is part of the Corporate Development team and reports to the Head of Corporate Development, with significant interaction with the c-suite. The position is ideal for an analytical individual with a strong interest in securing American supply chains, who is thoughtful about building industrial capacity and biased towards taking action to benefit Anduril’s product portfolio. Anduril prioritizes using existing supply chains and commercial production processes, materials, and components, preferring competitive markets over vertical integration. This role will help signal future needs to suppliers, enabling them to invest in capacity and product development.

Requirements

• 5+ years of work experience with demonstrated successes in a high-pressure role where pace and execution quality matters (e.g., management consulting, investment banking, internal strategy & operations, venture capital, elite government, or business analyst roles).
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, financial modeling and data analysis tools.
• Experience with financial reporting tools and ERP systems (i.e. Anaplan, Netsuite, Oracle, Foundry).
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills; ability to drive consensus through grounded arguments, interpersonal skills, and negotiation skills.
• Experience interfacing with leadership and executives; understanding how to cultivate trust and facilitate meetings for and engage with executives.
• Combination ability to execute on a tactical level as well as put together a strategy to solve complex, ambiguous, cross-functional problems.
• Comfortable rolling up your sleeves and diving deep into executing operational tasks that require high attention to detail and high organization skills, but also able to zoom out and create a strategy that solves high-level problems.
• High ownership with the horsepower to juggle multiple (3-5+) large projects and priorities in parallel, at a rapid pace, and report out on progress regularly without dropping any balls.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
• Excited by large breadth of problems.
• Discerning and an incredibly fast learner.
• Highly organized.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop a repeatable analytical process for assessing Anduril’s long-term industrial capacity needs and own this process.
• Partner with leaders from business development, product, engineering, manufacturing, production, and supply chain organizations to identify growth areas where Anduril should provide market signal in advance of demand.
• Work closely with internal colleagues to collect internal production targets, the design change landscape, and supplier production plans to establish a robust industrial capacity plan capable of scaling with multiple configurations and production rates.
• Communicate forecasts to internal and external stakeholders that accurately reflect Anduril’s business requirements while hedging against potential upside or change in business direction.
• In tandem with a deal leader from the Corporate Development team, identify specific areas where Anduril should increase the depth and breadth of available suppliers, and execute strategic partnerships and long-term supplier agreements to create increased capacity.
• Draft long-form thought leadership, talking points, and other collateral for Anduril’s executive team to use in discussions with elected representatives, customers, the White House, industry partners, and in public communications.
• Liaise with Anduril’s government and media relations functions to share perspectives on building industrial capacity.
• Guide and mentor peers and team members across the company to strengthen organizational resiliency and ingrain the concept of increasing industrial capacity in advance of demand.
• Define and incorporate organization-level processes and improvements that enable the business to scale and efficiently utilize its purchasing power, leveraging learnings from world-class manufacturers and other high-volume industries.
• Develop easy-to-read reporting and dashboards to measure team KPIs and support the program as it scales.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed