# Strategic Sourcing Manager, Electrical

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,000-$194,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Overview

The Strategic Sourcing Manager, Electrical is a domain expert for cables and harnesses commodities at Anduril Industries. This role focuses on securing critical components, materials, and services that power the company's products.

## Responsibilities

- Develop and execute commodity strategies for cables and harnesses, focusing on cost reduction, quality improvement, and supply chain resilience.

- Have end-to-end responsibility for delivering quality parts on time and at the right cost.

- Act as the sourcing expert for cables and harnesses manufacturing.

- Lead RFI/RFQ/RFP and strategic sourcing processes for cables and harnesses.

- Manage business relationships with external Contract Manufacturing, focusing on continuity of supply, risk management, cost negotiations, and new product introduction.

- Collaborate with the Engineering team and Contract Manufacturers to influence technical design specifications and customize product and manufacturing requirements.

- Perform detailed analysis of quote submissions based on cost breakdowns and make data-driven decisions.

- Work closely with cross-functional teams to support prototype requirements, execute against build milestones, and lead sourcing activities.

- Influence Contract Manufacturers' manufacturing processes, CapEx, and technology decisions.

- Negotiate key agreements with suppliers to establish best-in-class pricing, quality, flexibility, delivery, payment, warranty, and service terms.

- Collaborate internally, negotiate tradeoffs, solicit cooperation, resolve problems, and advance new supplier or product offerings.

- Provide strong technical direction within specific commodities, evaluating and guiding product strategy throughout the product lifecycle.

- Manage and lead operations efforts for developing new and adapting existing technologies for Anduril.

- Develop and execute commercial agreements reflecting project expectations.

- Conduct regular technology reviews with executive staff and management.

- Own supplier performance management for respective commodities.

- Act as the primary escalation for respective commodities.

## Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, engineering, or a related technical field.

- 3+ years of experience in supply chain commodity management of cables, harnesses, connectors, or capacitors manufacturing, and/or sourcing engineering.

- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.

- Ability to relocate to Costa Mesa, CA if not already local.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in electrical or mechanical engineering.

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

- Well-versed in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis.

- Strategic thinker with experience in creating commodities strategy/roadmap with key engineering stakeholders.

- Proven leadership in driving and influencing other teams.

- Fluent in other cross-functional areas to fill gaps and remove roadblocks.

- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance.

## Benefits

Anduril offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

- Competitive salary

- Equity grants

- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, such as health, recovery, and other support programs.

## Skills

### Required
- supply chain management
- commodity management
- sourcing engineering
- cost reduction
- quality improvement
- supply chain resilience

### Nice to have
- TCO analysis
- strategic thinking
- leadership
- cross-functional collaboration
- U.S. TS clearance

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