Staff Strategic Supply Chain Manager, PCB/PCBA

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

The Staff Strategic Supply Chain Manager, internally known as the Staff Global Sourcing Manager, is Anduril Industries’ domain expert for PCB/PCBA commodities. This proactive, high-impact role secures critical components, materials, and services by developing supplier and sourcing partnerships for new and existing products, improving technology, cost, and quality. The role works broadly across internal functions to assess supplier opportunities and ensure commercial agreements, intellectual property, and statements of work are accurate and established before projects proceed.

The manager develops and executes commodity strategies for PCB/PCBA and subassemblies, with end-to-end responsibility for delivering quality parts when needed at the right cost. They lead strategic sourcing and supplier relationships, support prototype and production milestones, guide technical and manufacturing decisions, negotiate commercial terms, and manage supplier performance and supply continuity. The role also provides technical direction throughout product lifecycles and presents technology reviews to executive staff and management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in supply chain category management for printed circuit board assembly and electronics manufacturing, 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 electrical or mechanical engineering.
• Previous experience in defense, aerospace, automotive, high tech, or a related industry.
• Proficiency in TCO analysis and data-driven analytics for component and supplier selection in a product-based ecosystem.
• Strategic thinking and experience developing commodity strategies or roadmaps with engineering stakeholders.
• Proven leadership in influencing teams toward common goals and communicating and collaborating across functions and organizational levels.
• Ability to take on varied responsibilities, work as a strong team player, and fill cross-functional gaps to remove roadblocks.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute commodity strategies for PCB/PCBA and subassemblies, focusing on cost reduction, quality improvement, and supply chain resilience.
• Deliver quality parts when needed and at the right cost.
• Serve as the sourcing expert for PCB/PCBA and subassemblies manufacturing.
• Lead RFI/RFQ/RFP processes and strategic sourcing for PCB/PCBA and subassemblies.
• Own business relationships with external contract manufacturers, including continuity of supply, risk management, cost negotiations, and NPI-to-MP execution.
• Partner with Engineering and contract manufacturers to influence technical design specifications and tailor product and manufacturing requirements.
• Analyze quote submissions and cost breakdowns, investigate supply-chain costs, and make data-driven decisions based on total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Work with cross-functional teams to support prototype requirements, meet build milestones, and lead sourcing activities.
• Influence contract manufacturers’ 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 supplier or product offerings.
• Provide technical direction for 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 reflecting project expectations, including costs, lead times, schedules, and manufacturing capacities.
• Conduct regular technology reviews for executive staff and management.
• Manage supplier performance for assigned commodities using delivery, quality, cost, and innovation metrics.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for 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, available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior