# Staff Global Sourcing Manager, Critical Minerals & Mining (Rare Earth Magnets)

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $191,000-$253,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Overview

The Staff Global Sourcing Manager, Critical Minerals (Rare Earth Magnets) 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 raw materials that power products against a backdrop of concentrated geopolitical risk, volatile pricing, and opaque multi-tier supply chains.

## Responsibilities

### Strategy & Visibility

- Own the commodity strategy for assigned critical minerals, focusing on supply chain resilience, geopolitical risk mitigation, cost, and quality.

- Develop and maintain tiered supply chain mapping from end products to raw materials, quantifying revenue exposure and BOM impact.

### Market Intelligence & Comms

- Maintain expert-level market intelligence and deliver weekly updates on pricing, disruptions, and geopolitical signals.

- Host monthly cross-functional pod meetings, lead quarterly strategy reviews, and conduct executive briefings.

### Sourcing Execution

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

- Perform should-cost and TCO analysis; negotiate key agreements suited to volatile markets.

- Evaluate and recommend strategic interventions, partnering with CorpDev and Finance.

### Relationship Management

- Build trusted relationships with suppliers, industry associations, and U.S./allied government bodies.

- Represent Anduril externally for assigned commodities.

### Cross-Functional Leadership

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

- Partner with Engineering to qualify alternates, influence specs, and design out single points of failure.

### Supplier & Performance Management

- Own supplier performance, serving as primary escalation point and managing continuity of supply.

## Requirements

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

- 10+ years of experience in commodity management, strategic sourcing with direct exposure to critical minerals.

- Demonstrated experience navigating concentrated, geopolitically sensitive supply chains.

- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time, including international travel.

- Ability to relocate to Costa Mesa, CA.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Advanced degree in materials science, chemical sciences, or metallurgical or mining engineering.

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

- Experience working with U.S. government programs supporting domestic critical mineral supply.

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

- Strong should-cost and TCO analysis skills.

- Strategic thinker with a track record of building commodity roadmaps.

- Experience structuring non-traditional commercial arrangements.

- Proven cross-functional leadership and ability to influence at all levels.

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

## Benefits

Anduril offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

- Competitive salary

- Equity grants

- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees

## Skills

### Required
- strategic sourcing
- commodity management
- supply chain management
- market intelligence
- relationship management
- should-cost analysis
- TCO analysis
- cross-functional leadership

### Nice to have
- materials science
- chemical sciences
- metallurgical or mining engineering
- defense
- aerospace
- automotive
- high tech
- U.S. government programs
- multi-tier supply chain visibility tools

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