# Head of Mechanical Strategic Supply Chain

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $253,000-$336,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Defense Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

The Head of Mechanical Strategic Supply Chain is a Director leadership role responsible for architecting and executing the sourcing strategy across all mechanical commodities.

**Responsibilities:**

- Enterprise Supply Chain Vision & Strategy: Define and execute multi-year global commodity and sourcing strategies across direct and indirect domains to drive cost reduction, supply chain resilience, and technology acceleration.

- Team Leadership & Scale: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of commodity managers, strategic sourcing leads, and technical sourcing engineers across multiple global sites.

- Executive Supplier Relationship Management: Serve as the executive sponsor for Tier 1 suppliers, Contract Manufacturers, and critical technology partners.

- Cross-Functional Engineering Alignment: Partner directly with Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, and Manufacturing from concept phase to drive DFM, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing cost optimizations, raw material selection, and process standardizations.

- Commercial & Strategic Negotiations: Lead high-stakes negotiations for master service agreements, development agreements, long-term supply agreements, and complex statement of works.

- Supply Chain Resilience & Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify single-source dependencies, geopolitical vulnerabilities, and capacity constraints.

- Cost Architecture & TCO Modeling: Champion robust "should-cost" modeling, teardown analyses, and TCO evaluations to optimize value from concept through end-of-life.

- Executive Communication: Conduct regular operational and strategic reviews with C-suite and executive leadership.

**Required Qualifications:**

- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Operations, Business, or a related technical discipline.

- 10+ years of experience in mechanical & structural strategic sourcing, global commodity management, or supply chain leadership within complex hardware manufacturing environments.

- 5+ years of proven experience building, managing, and scaling high-performing procurement or supply chain teams.

- Demonstrated expertise negotiating enterprise-level agreements and managing diverse commodity portfolios.

- Proven track record of managing supplier lifecycles and negotiating complex multi-million-dollar commercial agreements.

- Deep understanding of New Product Introduction workflows and scaling from prototype to high-rate production.

- Ability to travel up to 25%-50% domestically and internationally as needed.

- Ability to relocate, if not already local to be onsite in Costa Mesa.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or materials science.

- Previous experience in defense, aerospace, automotive, high tech, or related industry.

- Well-versed in TCO analysis and should costing.

- Strategic thinker, experienced putting together commodities strategy/roadmap with key engineering stakeholders.

- Proven leadership in driving and influencing other teams to a common goal.

- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security clearance.

**Benefits:** Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package.

## Skills

### Required
- Supply Chain Management
- Strategic Sourcing
- Global Commodity Management
- Leadership
- Negotiation
- Cost Reduction
- Risk Mitigation

### Nice to have
- TCO Analysis
- Should Costing
- Mechanical Engineering
- Materials Science
- Defense Industry Experience

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