# Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Metals

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $167,000-$222,000 USD
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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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 Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Metals is the domain expert for the metals 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 sheet metal (stainless steel, aluminum, titanium, etc.), focusing on cost reduction, technology development, quality improvement, and supply chain resilience

- End-to-end responsibility for delivering quality materials and/or parts, when needed, at the right cost

- Act as the sourcing expert for sheet metal

- Aggregate raw metals usage across all Anduril business units and within the supply chain to develop company-wide sourcing strategies

- Lead RFI/RFQ/RFP and strategic sourcing process for raw metals

- Own the business relationship with external Suppliers and responsible for continuity of supply, risk management, cost negotiations, and NPI to MP operation execution

- Partner with the Engineering team and Suppliers 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 Supplier 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 commodity 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

- 5+ years of experience in supply chain commodity management of raw metals, 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 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

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## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- TCO analysis
- strategic thinking
- leadership
- defense
- aerospace
- automotive
- high tech

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