# Buyer, Maritime

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $77,000-$106,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Buyer, Maritime, you will be responsible for managing the procurement process and contributing to the strategic sourcing initiatives of the organisation.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a growing and dynamic team working closely with engineering, finance and manufacturing teams to ensure that our accelerated challenges are executed efficiently and effectively. The right person for this role is someone who enjoys launching new products, has excellent procure to pay experience in a manufacturing environment and is someone who excels at communicating clearly, managing many tasks in a fast-paced environment, and creating and maintaining standard operating procedures.

Responsibilities:

Create, issue, and manage purchase orders to meet production and program needs. Maintain day-to-day relationships with suppliers, monitor performance, and resolve issues related to quality, delivery, and pricing. Quickly resolve supply chain disruptions, delivery delays, and quality issues to keep projects on track. Monitor and expedite orders to meet deadlines and production schedules. Collaborate with stakeholders such as engineering, manufacturing, and program teams to align procurement with company goals. Maintain accurate records, track procurement KPIs, and identify opportunities to streamline processes. Support the development and implementation of sourcing strategy for direct commodities and/or categories. Document supplier performance and actively participate in monthly, weekly, and daily review processes as required. Support continuous improvement initiatives for cost savings, quality improvement, and on-time delivery. Support the supplier life cycle from supplier selection, adoption, induction, through to ongoing management and exit (where applicable).

Qualifications and Additional Skills:

5+ years of technical procurement experience in a manufacturing environment. Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with the ability to drive achievement of objectives. Strong organisational and time-management skills. Excellent communication and negotiation abilities. Ability to work in cross-functional teams and collaborate with across functions/borders. Good understanding and interpretation of related design specification. Excellent problem-solving, organisational, analytical, and critical thinking skills including high discretion/judgement in decision-making. Ability to work and excel within a fast-paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment. Excellent attention to detail.

## Skills

### Required
- procurement
- supply chain
- technical procurement
- manufacturing environment
- communication
- negotiation
- relationship management
- problem-solving
- analytical thinking
- critical thinking

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