# Procurement Manager

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $130,000-$170,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: 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 Procurement Manager supports engineering and manufacturing teams with the development and execution of sourcing strategy.

**Responsibilities**

- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of buyers, setting priorities, balancing workloads, and ensuring the buying team has the tools, training, and supplier context needed to execute purchase orders accurately and on time

- Partner with Product Sourcing Engineers to align on supplier selection, cost targets, and make-vs-buy decisions, translating their strategic sourcing direction into day-to-day procurement execution

- Coordinate with Product Sourcing Engineers during NPI phases to ensure procurement timelines, supplier qualifications, and BOM readiness support production ramp schedules

- Lead cross-functional projects to achieve cost, quality, and delivery targets

- Monitor and report key performance indicators in regard to performance to plan, surfacing risks and bottlenecks to the buying team and sourcing engineers early

- Support engineering and manufacturing to determine best sources, working alongside Product Sourcing Engineers to validate supplier capabilities

- Identify and execute cost reduction projects in collaboration with sourcing engineers and the buying team

- Negotiate commercial terms with suppliers

- Analyze supplier data and identify areas of opportunity for expanding and/or consolidating the Approved Supplier List (ASL)

- Conduct research, benchmark, and collect market data to ensure a best-in-class supply base

- Place purchase orders and resolve downstream issues with receiving, finance, and accounting

- Maintain procurement-related master data in the ERP system

- Own the procurement process cradle-to-grave, from sourcing through delivery and payment

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, or related discipline

- 5+ years of supply chain experience in progressive roles

- Experience with technical procurement

- Effective written, verbal, and presentation skills

- Ability to read drawings and blueprints

- Exceptional analytical and organizational skills

- Familiarity with leading ERP systems

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience managing or leading a team of buyers or procurement professionals, with a track record of developing talent and driving team performance

- Experience partnering closely with sourcing engineers or technical stakeholders to execute supply chain strategy

- Deeper experience within:

- Strategic sourcing and supplier development

- Cost engineering and should-cost modeling

- Contract negotiation and commercial risk management

- NPI procurement support and BOM management

- Familiarity with procurement in a defense or highly regulated environment

- Experience working in a high-mix, low-volume manufacturing environment

- Exposure to working in a fast-paced, start-up environment

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

**Benefits** Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) to support health, recovery, and overall well-being.

## Skills

### Required
- technical procurement
- supplier relationship management
- cost reduction
- strategic sourcing
- ERP systems

### Nice to have
- supplier development
- cost engineering
- contract negotiation
- NPI procurement support

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