# Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Critical Minerals

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California, United States
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,000-$194,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Critical Minerals is the domain expert and single-threaded leader for a designated critical mineral at Anduril Industries. This is a high-impact role focused on securing the raw materials that power our products against a backdrop of concentrated geopolitical risk, volatile pricing, and opaque multi-tier supply chains.

As the lead for your assigned mineral, you will own the global mandate end-to-end: market intelligence, tiered supply chain mapping, supplier and government relationship management, should-cost modeling, contracting, and stockpiling strategy. You will operate as the hub of a cross-functional pod to translate Anduril's aggregate demand into a resilient sourcing strategy that enhances supplies from US-friendly sources, protects BOM cost, and ensures continuity of supply across NPI and mass production.

Key responsibilities include:

- Owning the commodity strategy for your assigned critical mineral, with explicit focus on supply chain resilience, geopolitical risk mitigation (particularly PRC concentration in mining and refinement), cost, and quality

- Building and maintaining tiered supply chain mapping from Anduril end products down to the raw material, quantifying revenue exposure and BOM impact to prioritize where deeper intervention is needed

- Maintaining expert-level market intelligence and delivering weekly updates on pricing, disruptions, and geopolitical signals

- Hosting monthly cross-functional pod tag-ups, leading quarterly strategy reviews, and conducting regular executive briefings on market conditions and mitigation plans

- Leading RFI/RFQ/RFP processes across miners, refiners, processors, and component suppliers

- Performing should-cost and TCO analysis; negotiating key agreements (offtake, pricing, capacity reservations, payment terms) suited to volatile, concentrated markets

- Evaluating and recommending strategic interventions (stockpiling, prepayments, JVs, equity investments, vertical integration), partnering with CorpDev and Finance

- Building trusted relationships with suppliers, industry associations, and U.S./allied government bodies (DoD, DPA Title III, DLA, DOE); representing Anduril externally for your commodity

- Leading a cross-functional pod spanning product sourcing, parent commodity managers, Engineering, and CorpDev/Finance

- Partnering with Engineering to qualify alternates, influencing specs, and designing out single points of failure

- Owning supplier performance (delivery, quality, cost, innovation), serving as primary escalation point and managing continuity of supply through NPI-to-MP transitions

Required qualifications include:

- A bachelor's degree in supply chain, engineering, or a related technical field

- 5+ years of experience in commodity management, strategic sourcing with direct exposure to critical minerals or their downstream products

- Demonstrated experience navigating concentrated, geopolitically sensitive supply chains

- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time, including international travel to mines, refiners, and processors

Preferred qualifications include:

- An advanced degree (Master's or Doctorate) in materials science, chemical sciences, or metallurgical or mining engineering

- Previous experience in defence, aerospace, automotive, high tech, or related industry with deep raw material dependencies

- Experience working with U.S. government programs supporting domestic critical mineral supply (e.g., DPA Title III, DOE Loan Programs Office, DLA National Defense Stockpile)

- Hands-on experience with multi-tier supply chain visibility tools

- Strong should-cost and TCO analysis skills in a product-based ecosystem

- Strategic thinker with a track record of building commodity roadmaps alongside engineering and finance stakeholders

- Experience structuring or supporting non-traditional commercial arrangements (long-term offtake, prepayments, equity investments, JVs)

- Proven cross-functional leadership and ability to influence at all levels of an organization

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

## Skills

### Required
- commodity management
- strategic sourcing
- critical minerals
- supply chain resilience
- geopolitical risk mitigation
- cost and quality management
- market intelligence
- tiered supply chain mapping
- supplier and government relationship management
- should-cost modeling
- contracting
- stockpiling strategy
- cross-functional leadership
- engineering
- CorpDev
- Finance

### Nice to have
- materials science
- chemical sciences
- metallurgical or mining engineering
- defence
- aerospace
- automotive
- high tech
- U.S. government programs
- multi-tier supply chain visibility tools
- should-cost and TCO analysis
- commodity roadmaps
- non-traditional commercial arrangements
- influence at all levels of an organization
- U.S. TS clearance

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