Description
Job Overview
The Staff Global Sourcing Manager, Critical Minerals (Rare Earth Magnets) is the domain expert and single-threaded leader for a designated critical mineral at Anduril Industries. This is a high-impact role focused on securing raw materials that power products against a backdrop of concentrated geopolitical risk, volatile pricing, and opaque multi-tier supply chains.
As the lead for the assigned mineral, you will own the global mandate end-to-end: market intelligence, tiered supply chain mapping, supplier and government relationship management, should-cost modeling, contracting, and stockpiling strategy. You will operate as the hub of a cross-functional pod to translate Anduril's aggregate demand into a resilient sourcing strategy that enhances supplies from US-friendly sources, protects BOM cost, and ensures continuity of supply across NPI and mass production.
Responsibilities
Strategy & Visibility
- Own the commodity strategy for the assigned critical mineral, focusing on supply chain resilience, geopolitical risk mitigation, cost, and quality.
- Build and maintain tiered supply chain mapping from Anduril end products down to the raw material, quantifying revenue exposure and BOM impact to prioritize where deeper intervention is needed.
Market Intelligence & Comms
- Maintain expert-level market intelligence and deliver weekly updates on pricing, disruptions, and geopolitical signals.
- Host monthly cross-functional pod tag-ups, lead quarterly strategy reviews, and conduct regular executive briefings on market conditions and mitigation plans.
Sourcing Execution
- Lead RFI/RFQ/RFP processes across miners, refiners, processors, and component suppliers.
- Perform should-cost and TCO analysis; negotiate key agreements suited to volatile, concentrated markets.
- Evaluate and recommend strategic interventions, partnering with CorpDev and Finance.
Relationship Management
- Build trusted relationships with suppliers, industry associations, and U.S./allied government bodies; represent Anduril externally for the commodity.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Lead a cross-functional pod spanning product sourcing, parent commodity managers, Engineering, and CorpDev/Finance.
- Partner with Engineering to qualify alternates, influence specs, and design out single points of failure.
Supplier & Performance Management
- Own supplier performance, serving as primary escalation point and managing continuity of supply through NPI-to-MP transitions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, or related technical field.
- 10+ years of experience in commodity management, strategic sourcing with direct exposure to critical minerals or their downstream products.
- Demonstrated experience navigating concentrated, geopolitically sensitive supply chains.
- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time, including international travel.
- Ability to relocate to Costa Mesa, CA.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree in materials science, chemical sciences, or metallurgical or mining engineering.
- Previous experience in defense, aerospace, automotive, high tech, or related industry with deep raw material dependencies.
- Experience working with U.S. government programs supporting domestic critical mineral supply.
- Hands-on experience with multi-tier supply chain visibility tools.
- Strong should-cost and TCO analysis skills in a product-based ecosystem.
- Strategic thinker with a track record of building commodity roadmaps alongside engineering and finance stakeholders.
- Experience structuring or supporting non-traditional commercial arrangements.
- Proven cross-functional leadership and ability to influence at all levels of an organization.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance.
Salary and Benefits
- Salary Range: $191,000-$253,000 USD
- Highly competitive equity grants included in full-time offers.
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees.