# Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Aircraft Composites

**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**: Aerospace

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## 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

## Skills

### Required
- Supply Chain Management
- Commodity Strategy
- Cost Reduction
- Quality Improvement
- Supply Chain Resilience
- Contract Manufacturing
- Risk Management
- Cost Negotiations
- Technical Design Specs
- Customized Product and Manufacturing Requirements
- Data Analysis
- TCO
- Cross-Functional Teams
- Prototype Requirements
- Build Milestones
- Sourcing Activities
- Manufacturing Processes
- CapEx and Technology Decisions
- Supplier Agreements
- Best-in-Class Pricing
- Quality Flexibility
- Delivery Payment Warranty Service Terms
- Internal Collaboration
- Tradeoffs
- Cooperation
- Problem Resolution
- New Supplier or Product Offerings
- Technical Direction
- Product Strategy
- Commercial Agreements
- Project Expectations
- Fixed and Variable Costs
- Lead-Times
- Schedules
- Manufacturing Capacities
- Supplier Performance Management
- Key Delivery Quality Cost Innovation Metrics

### Nice to have
- Mechanical Engineering
- Metallurgical Materials Engineering
- Defense Aerospace Automotive High Tech Industry
- TCO Analysis
- Strategic Thinking
- Leadership
- Communication
- Collaboration
- U.S. TS Clearance

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