# Senior Category Manager, Radar/Long Range

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $128,000-$192,000 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 Senior Category Manager, Radar (internally known at Anduril as a Senior Global Sourcing Manager), is the domain expert for the radar commodities for Anduril Industries. This is a proactive, high-impact role in securing critical components, materials, and services that power our products.

**Responsibilities**

- Develop and execute commodity strategies for radar focusing on cost reduction, quality improvement, and supply chain resilience

- End-to-end responsibility for delivering quality parts, when needed, at the right cost

- Act as the sourcing expert for radar manufacturing

- Lead RFI/RFQ/RFP and strategic sourcing process for radar

- Own the business relationship with external Contract Manufacturing and responsible for continuity of supply, risk management, cost negotiations, and NPI to MP operation execution

- Partner with the Engineering team and Contract Manufacturers to influence technical design specs and customize product and manufacturing requirements

- Perform detailed analysis of quote submissions based on cost breakdown from data. Deep dive into every element of the supply chain and make data-driven decisions based on TCO

- Work closely with cross-functional teams to support prototype requirements, execute against build milestones, and lead sourcing activities

- Influence CM’s manufacturing processes and CapEx and technology decisions

- Negotiate key agreements with suppliers to establish best-in-class pricing, quality, flexibility, delivery, payment, warranty, and service terms

- Collaborate internally, negotiate the right tradeoffs, solicit cooperation and resolve problems, and advance new supplier or product offerings

- Provide strong technical direction within the specific commodities, by evaluating and guiding product strategy throughout the product lifecycle

- Manage and lead the operations effort of developing new and adaptations of existing technologies for Anduril

- Develop & execute commercial agreements to properly reflect the expectations of project, which include fixed and variable costs, lead-times, schedules, manufacturing capacities, etc

- Conduct regular technology reviews to Executive staff and management

- Own the supplier performance management of their respective commodities, which includes key delivery, quality, cost, and innovation metrics

- Act as the primary escalation for their respective commodity

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, or related technical field

- 5+ years of experience in supply chain commodity management of radar 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, CA

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in physics, electrical or mechanical engineering

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

- Well-versed in TCO analysis to ensure data-driven analytics tied to component and supplier selection, in a product-based ecosystem

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

- Proven leadership in driving and influencing other teams to a common goal. You know how to effectively communicate and collaborate cross functionally and with all levels within an organization

- Can wear different hats and it a strong team player to help your team move forward.

- You are fluent in other cross functional areas to fill gaps and remove roadblocks when needed

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

**Benefits**

- Healthcare Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you

- Income Protection: Life and disability insurance for all employees

- Generous time off: Highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December

- Family Planning & Parenting Support: Coverage for fertility treatments, adoption, and gestational carriers

- Mental Health Resources: Access free mental health resources 24/7

- Professional Development: Annual reimbursement for professional development

- Commuter Benefits: Company-funded commuter benefits based on your region

- Retirement Savings Plan: Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after-tax options

## Skills

### Required
- supply chain management
- engineering
- radar manufacturing
- sourcing

### Nice to have
- TCO analysis
- strategic thinking
- leadership
- communication

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