Description
The Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Radio is the domain expert for the radio frequency and wireless systems commodities (transceivers, antennas, amplifiers, communication modules, etc.) for Anduril Industries. This is a proactive, high-impact role in securing critical components, materials, and services that power our products. This role will be responsible for developing new supplier and new sourcing partnerships that can be incorporated into new products, as well as existing products to improve their technologies, cost, and quality.
The Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Radio will develop and execute commodity strategies for radio commodities, focusing on cost reduction, quality improvement, and supply chain resilience. They will end-to-end responsibility for delivering quality parts, when needed, at the right cost. They will act as the sourcing expert for electromechanical manufacturing and lead RFI/RFQ/RFP and strategic sourcing process for electromechanical commodities.
The Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Radio will 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. They will partner with the Engineering team and Contract Manufacturers to influence technical design specs and customize product and manufacturing requirements.
The Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Radio will perform detailed analysis of quote submissions based on cost breakdown from data. They will deep dive into every element of the supply chain and make data-driven decisions based on TCO. They will work closely with cross-functional teams to support prototype requirements, execute against build milestones, and lead sourcing activities.
The Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Radio will influence CM’s manufacturing processes and CapEx and technology decisions. They will negotiate key agreements with suppliers to establish best-in-class pricing, quality, flexibility, delivery, payment, warranty, and service terms.
They will collaborate internally, negotiate the right tradeoffs, solicit cooperation and resolve problems, and advance new supplier or product offerings. They will provide strong technical direction within the specific commodities, by evaluating and guiding product strategy throughout the product lifecycle.
The Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Radio will manage and lead the operations effort of developing new and adaptations of existing technologies for Anduril. They will develop & execute commercial agreements to properly reflect the expectations of project, which include fixed and variable costs, lead-times, schedules, and manufacturing capacities.
They will conduct regular technology reviews to executive staff and management. They will own the supplier performance management of their respective commodities, which includes key delivery, quality, cost, and innovation metrics.
They will act as the primary escalation for their respective commodity.