# Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Mechanical

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,000-$194,000 USD
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Defense 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 Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Mechanical is the domain expert for mechanical commodities for Anduril Industries. This is a proactive, high-impact role in securing critical components, materials, and services that power our products.

### Responsibilities

- Develop and execute commodity strategies for mechanical fabrication, focusing on cost reduction, quality improvement, and supply chain resilience

- Have end-to-end responsibility for delivering quality parts, when needed, at the right cost

- Act as the sourcing expert for mechanical fabrication

- Lead RFI/RFQ/RFP and strategic sourcing process for mechanical fabrication

- Own the business relationship with external Contract Manufacturing and be responsible for continuity of supply, risk management, cost negotiations, and NPI to MP operation execution

- Partner with the Engineering team and Contract Manufacturers to influence technical design specs and customize product and manufacturing requirements

- Perform detailed analysis of quote submissions based on cost breakdown from data

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

- Influence CM's manufacturing processes and 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, and resolve problems

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

- Manage and lead the operations effort of developing new and adaptations of existing technologies for Anduril

- Develop and execute commercial agreements that reflect project expectations

- Conduct regular technology reviews for Executive staff and management

- Own supplier performance management for respective commodities

- Act as the primary escalation for respective commodities

### Required Qualifications

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

- 6+ years of experience in supply chain commodity management of mechanical fabrication manufacturing, and/or sourcing engineering

- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time

- Ability to relocate, if not already local to be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA

### Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in mechanical or metallurgical/materials engineering

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

- Well-versed in TCO analysis

- Strategic thinker with experience putting together commodities strategy/roadmap with key engineering stakeholders

- Proven leadership in driving and influencing other teams to a common goal

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

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

## Skills

### Required
- supply chain management
- mechanical fabrication
- sourcing engineering
- strategic sourcing
- cost reduction
- quality improvement
- supply chain resilience

### Nice to have
- TCO analysis
- commodities strategy
- leadership
- cross-functional collaboration
- defense industry experience

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