# Head of Raw Materials & Energetics Strategic Supply Chain

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $253,000-$336,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5232960007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_8965d732-ce2

## Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

The Head of Raw Materials & Energetics Strategic Supply Chain owns sourcing strategy across all raw materials and energetic commodities, and leads the team accountable for solving material constraints.

Responsibilities:

- Commodity Strategy & Roadmap: Define and execute multi-year global sourcing strategies for critical raw materials, strategic minerals, rare earth elements/magnets, and energetic formulations.

- Team Leadership & Scale: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of commodity managers, strategic sourcing leads, and technical sourcing engineers across multiple global sites.

- Executive Supplier Relationship Management: Drive deep sub-tier visibility beyond Tier 1 down to processors, smelters, refiners, and chemical synthesis partners.

- Commercial & Strategic Negotiations: Lead high-stakes negotiations for master service agreements, development agreements, long-term agreements, and complex statement of works.

- Supply Chain Resilience & Risk Mitigation: Drill down through multi-tier value chains to pinpoint critical bottlenecks, geopolitical vulnerabilities, and single points of failure.

- Market Intelligence & Price Risk Management: Build the analytical backbone for volatile, geopolitically-influenced commodity markets.

- 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 raw materials & energetics strategic sourcing, global commodity management of specialty chemicals, or defense-critical supply chains.

- 5+ years of proven experience building, managing, and scaling high-performing procurement or supply chain teams.

- Demonstrated expertise negotiating enterprise-level agreements and managing critical minerals/rare earths and/or energetic systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, or materials science.

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

- Well-versed in TCO analysis and should costing to ensure data-driven analytics tied to component and supplier selection.

Benefits: Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package.

## Skills

### Required
- Supply Chain Management
- Strategic Sourcing
- Commodity Management
- Negotiation
- Leadership

### Nice to have
- TCO analysis
- Should Costing
- Mechanical Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Materials Science

---

Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5232960007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)