Head of Sensors & Radar Strategic Supply Chain

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.