# Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Rare Earth Magnets

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $166,000-$220,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Senior 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 the raw materials that power our products against a backdrop of concentrated geopolitical risk, volatile pricing, and opaque multi-tier supply chains.

As the lead for your 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 your assigned critical mineral, with explicit focus 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, quantify 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 (offtake, pricing, capacity reservations, payment terms) suited to volatile, concentrated markets.

- Evaluate and recommend strategic interventions (stockpiling, prepayments, JVs, equity investments, vertical integration), partnering with CorpDev and Finance.

#### Relationship Management

- Build trusted relationships with suppliers, industry associations, and U.S./allied government bodies; represent Anduril externally for your 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 (delivery, quality, cost, innovation), serving as primary escalation point and managing continuity of supply through NPI-to-MP transitions.

### Required Qualifications

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

- 5+ 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 to mines, refiners, and processors.

- Ability to relocate, if not already local to be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA.

### Preferred Qualifications

- Advanced degree (Master’s or Doctorate) 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.

### Benefits

Anduril offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, including top-tier benefits for full-time employees.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic sourcing
- commodity management
- supply chain management
- market intelligence
- should-cost modeling
- TCO analysis
- relationship management

### Nice to have
- materials science
- chemical sciences
- metallurgical or mining engineering
- defense
- aerospace
- automotive
- high tech
- U.S. government programs
- multi-tier supply chain visibility tools

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