# Global Sourcing Manager, Aircraft Composites

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $129,000-$171,000 USD
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Defense

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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 Global Sourcing Manager, Aircraft Composites is the domain expert for the composites 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 composites, 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 composites manufacturing

- Lead RFI/RFQ/RFP and strategic sourcing process for composites

- Own the business relationship with external Contract Manufacturing and 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 the right tradeoffs, solicit cooperation and resolve problems, and advance new supplier or product offerings

- Provide strong technical direction within the specific commodities, by 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 & execute commercial agreements to properly reflect the expectations of project, which include fixed and variable costs, lead-times, schedules, manufacturing capacities, etc

- Conduct regular technology reviews to Executive staff and management

- Own the supplier performance management of their respective commodities, which includes key delivery, quality, cost, and innovation metrics

- Act as the primary escalation for their respective commodity

### Required Qualifications

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

- 3+ years of experience in supply chain commodity management of composites 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 engineering or metallurgical/materials engineering

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

- Well-versed in TCO analysis to ensure data-driven analytics tied to component and supplier selection, in a product-based ecosystem

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

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

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

### Benefits

- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

- Income protection: life and disability insurance

- Generous time off: highly competitive PTO plans

- Family planning & parenting support

- Mental health resources

- Professional development

- Commuter benefits

- Relocation assistance

- Retirement savings plan

## Skills

### Required
- supply chain management
- composites manufacturing
- sourcing engineering
- strategic sourcing
- cost reduction
- quality improvement

### Nice to have
- TCO analysis
- commodities strategy
- leadership
- defense
- aerospace
- automotive
- high tech

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