# Planning Program Manager

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $147,000-$196,000 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.

We are seeking a Planning Program Manager to support Air, Dominance, & Strike and drive the systems, processes, and cross-functional initiatives that power Anduril’s supply planning and operational readiness.

## Responsibilities

### Lead Cross-Functional Planning Projects

- Drive planning work streams from kickoff to execution, aligning stakeholders across supply chain, product, and engineering to ensure timely delivery of planning goals.

- Chart project trajectories, run operational cadences, identify and resolve blockers, while executing with urgency and precision.

### Design & Optimize Planning Processes

- Identify and implement scalable processes for demand, supply, and material planning.

- Collaborate cross-functionally to bridge upstream business capabilities with downstream outcomes.

- Develop and document standard operating procedures and planning tools and aggressively pursue adoption.

### Partner with Systems & Analytics Teams

- Translate planning challenges into system requirements and partner with Business Analytics to implement ERP and planning tool enhancements.

- Support the development of dashboards and reporting tools that provide visibility into material availability, constraints, and fulfillment risks.

### Enable Strategic Decision-Making

- Leverage data to analyze supply-demand imbalances, identify planning gaps, and proactively communicate trade-offs and recommendations to stakeholders.

- Jump freely in and out of operational value chains including S&OP, NPI planning, and long-range forecasting to understand and drive alignment across business functions.

### Drive Continuous Improvement

- Monitor planning KPIs and drive initiatives to relentlessly reduce waste, improve accuracy, and increase on-time delivery rates.

- Proactively identify issues and work to implement fixes.

## Requirements

- 6+ years’ experience in inventory forecasting, supply planning, or inventory management in a hardware/manufacturing environment.

- Track record of improving inventory forecast accuracy and enforcing business-wide accountability.

- Strong data analysis skills; able to identify and fix systemic issues impacting inventory forecast reliability.

- Deep familiarity with ERP and planning systems (SAP, NetSuite, Oracle, or similar).

- High ownership, strong cross-functional leadership, and ability to build process rigor in fast-scaling environments.

- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, Engineering, or related field.

- Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Master’s degree.

- Experience with lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, six sigma principles, and big data evaluation techniques.

- Proactive, able to take substantial responsibility across various functions, with a focus on speed and accuracy.

## Benefits

- US Salary Range $147,000-$196,000 USD

- Highly competitive equity grants

- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees

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## Skills

### Required
- inventory forecasting
- supply planning
- inventory management
- data analysis
- ERP systems

### Nice to have
- lean manufacturing
- continuous improvement
- six sigma principles
- big data evaluation techniques

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