# Head of Sensors & Radar Strategic Supply Chain

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $253,000-$336,000 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 Head of Sensors & Radar Strategic Supply Chain is a Director leadership role responsible for architecting and executing the sourcing strategy across all optical & radar commodities.

**Responsibilities**

- Enterprise Supply Chain Vision & Strategy: Define and execute multi-year global sourcing strategies across complex sensor domains.

- Team Leadership & Scale: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of commodity managers, strategic sourcing leads, and technical sourcing engineers.

- Supplier Relationship Management: Drive deep sub-tier visibility beyond Tier 1.

- Cross-Functional Engineering Alignment: Partner directly with Optical Engineers, RF/Antenna Designers, and Sensor Architecture teams.

- Commercial & Strategic Negotiations: Lead high-stakes negotiations for master service agreements.

- Supply Chain Resilience & Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify single-source dependencies.

- Cost Architecture & TCO Modeling: Champion robust "should-cost" modeling.

- Executive Communication: Conduct regular operational and strategic reviews with C-suite and executive leadership.

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Operations, Business, or a related technical discipline.

- 10+ years of experience in optical & radar strategic sourcing.

- 5+ years of proven experience building, managing, and scaling high-performing procurement or supply chain teams.

- Demonstrated expertise negotiating enterprise-level agreements.

- Proven track record of managing supplier lifecycles.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, optical engineering, or physics.

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

- Well-versed in TCO and should costing analysis.

- Strategic thinker, experienced putting together commodities strategy/roadmap.

**Benefits** Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package.

## Skills

### Required
- Supply Chain Management
- Strategic Sourcing
- Optical Engineering
- Radar Technology
- Leadership

### Nice to have
- Electrical Engineering
- Physics
- TCO Analysis
- Should Costing
- Commodity Management

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