# Staff Global Sourcing Manager, Optics

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $191,000-$253,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Staff Global Sourcing Manager, Optics is the domain expert for sensor/optics commodities at Anduril Industries. This is a proactive, high-impact role in securing critical components, materials, and services that power products.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and execute commodity strategies for sensors/optics 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 sensors/optics manufacturing

- Lead RFI/RFQ/RFP and strategic sourcing process for sensors/optics

- 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 operations efforts for developing new and adapting existing technologies

- Develop and execute commercial agreements reflecting project expectations

- Conduct regular technology reviews with Executive staff and management

- Own supplier performance management for respective commodities

- Act as the primary escalation for respective commodities

Requirements:

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

- 10+ years of experience in supply chain commodity management of sensors/optics manufacturing, and/or sourcing engineering

- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time

- Ability to relocate to Costa Mesa, CA

Preferred Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in physics, electrical or mechanical engineering

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

- Well-versed in TCO analysis

- Strategic thinker with experience in commodities strategy/roadmap development

- Proven leadership in driving and influencing other teams

- Fluent in other cross-functional areas

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

## Skills

### Required
- supply chain management
- sourcing engineering
- commodity management
- cost reduction
- quality improvement
- supply chain resilience

### Nice to have
- TCO analysis
- strategic thinking
- leadership
- cross-functional collaboration
- U.S. TS clearance

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