Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Casting

ABOUT THE JOB
The Senior Global Sourcing Manager Casting is the domain expert for the mechanical commodities for Anduril Industries. This is a proactive high-impact role in securing critical components materials and services that power our products. This role will be responsible for developing new supplier and new sourcing partnerships that can be incorporated into new products as well as existing products to improve their technologies cost and quality. There is broad internal cross functional partnership to evaluate supplier opportunities while ensuring commercial agreements intellectual property and statement of works are accurate and well established prior to pipelining.

• Develop and execute commodity strategies for mechanical casting focusing on cost reduction technology development quality improvement and supply chain resilience
• End-to-end responsibility for delivering quality parts when needed at the right cost
• Act as the sourcing expert mechanical casting manufacturing
• Lead RFI/RFQ/RFP and strategic sourcing process for mechanical casting
• 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. Deep dive into every element of the supply chain and make data-driven decisions based on TCO
• 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 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

• Bachelors degree in supply chain engineering or related technical field
• 5 years of experience in supply chain commodity management of mechanical casting 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

• Bachelors 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. You know how to effectively communicate and collaborate cross functionally and with all levels within an organization
• Can wear different hats and it a strong team player to help your team move forward.
• You are fluent in other cross functional areas to fill gaps and remove roadblocks when needed
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

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