Vendor Strategy & Performance Lead

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

We are looking for a Vendor Strategy & Performance Lead to oversee our global construction vendor ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• Develop Design & Construction’s vendor strategy across key project-delivery categories
• Build and maintain a preferred vendor bench by geography, project type, technical specialty, security need, scale, and performance history
• Identify where Anduril should introduce new vendors to increase capacity, reduce risk, improve pricing tension, or access specialized capabilities
• Establish a repeatable pre-qualification process for construction, design, consulting, and specialty partners
• Define practical evaluation criteria for vendors
• Build vendor evaluation templates, interview guides, reference-check approaches, and scoring models
• Maintain a central record of vendor qualifications, strengths, risks, past performance, and recommended use cases
• Support select request for proposal (RFP) engagements
• Help write clear scopes of work (SOW) that reduce ambiguity and improve bid quality
• Review proposals for scope gaps, unclear assumptions, exclusions, staffing concerns, commercial risk, and operational feasibility
• Establish a vendor performance management rhythm for key D&C partners
• Define practical KPIs across cost, schedule, quality, responsiveness, documentation, safety, change management, and issue resolution
• Create a feedback loop so project-level experiences influence future vendor selection and contracting decisions
• Track vendor concentration, capacity risk, geographic coverage, and recurring performance issues
• Build executive-ready materials that communicate vendor performance, risks, recommendations, and decisions needed

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in construction management, corporate real estate, owner’s representation, construction procurement, vendor management, commercial management, project controls, or a related field
• Strong understanding of the construction project lifecycle
• Experience working with construction-related vendors
• Ability to evaluate vendor capabilities, project teams, scopes of work, proposals, and commercial structures
• Strong written communication skills
• Ability to operate cross-functionally with Construction Project Managers, Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Legal, Finance, technical stakeholders, and senior leaders
• Strong judgment and ownership
• Ability to communicate clearly with external vendors
• Willingness to travel up to 10–20% of the time
• Must be a U.S. Person

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with global or vendor ecosystems in the US, APAC, Europe, and Middle East

Benefits:

• Highly competitive equity grants
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive and competitive benefits package