Description
The Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Aircraft Composites is a proactive, high-impact role in securing critical components, materials, and services that power our products. This role will be responsible for developing new supplier and new sourcing partnerships that can be incorporated into new products, as well as existing products to improve their technologies, cost, and quality.
Key responsibilities include:
Developing and executing commodity strategies for composites, focusing on cost reduction, quality improvement, and supply chain resilience
End-to-end responsibility for delivering quality parts, when needed, at the right cost
Acting as the sourcing expert for composites manufacturing
Leading RFI/RFQ/RFP and strategic sourcing process for composites
Owning the business relationship with external Contract Manufacturing and responsible for continuity of supply, risk management, cost negotiations, and NPI to MP operation execution
Partnering with the Engineering team and Contract Manufacturers to influence technical design specs and customize product and manufacturing requirements
Performing 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
Working closely with cross-functional teams to support prototype requirements, execute against build milestones, and lead sourcing activities
Influencing CM’s manufacturing processes and CapEx and technology decisions
Negotiating key agreements with suppliers to establish best-in-class pricing, quality, flexibility, delivery, payment, warranty, and service terms
Collaborating internally, negotiating the right tradeoffs, soliciting cooperation and resolving problems, and advancing new supplier or product offerings
Providing strong technical direction within the specific commodities, by evaluating and guiding product strategy throughout the product lifecycle
Managing and leading the operations effort of developing new and adaptations of existing technologies for Anduril
Developing & executing commercial agreements to properly reflect the expectations of project, which include fixed and variable costs, lead-times, schedules, manufacturing capacities, etc
Conducting regular technology reviews to Executive staff and management
Owning the supplier performance management of their respective commodities, which includes key delivery, quality, cost, and innovation metrics
Acting as the primary escalation for their respective commodity