Vendor Strategy & Performance Lead

The Design & Construction team at Anduril delivers the factories labs offices and secure spaces that enable our teams to design build and deploy advanced defense technology. Our projects span high-performance manufacturing facilities mission-critical secure environments and collaborative workspaces giving our team exposure to a uniquely wide variety of technical and operational challenges. More than just delivering buildings we are (literally) rebuilding the American defense industrial base. Our work accelerates how quickly critical technology moves from concept to production and into the hands of the warfighter.

The Capital Operations team sits within Design & Construction and provides the operating backbone that helps the organization scale. We build the processes tools governance analytics standards and special initiatives that help our construction project teams deliver faster more predictably and with better outcomes. Our focus areas include Project Controls Design Integration Strategy & Operations and Vendor Strategy.

We are looking for a Vendor Strategy & Performance Lead to oversee our global construction vendor ecosystem. This person will partner closely with Construction Project Managers Strategic Sourcing Procurement Legal and others.

Vendor Strategy

• Develop Design & Constructions vendor strategy across key project-delivery categories including general contractors construction managers architects engineers owners reps specialty consultants commissioning agents and more ensuring comprehensive coverage across our global operating regions.
• Build and maintain a preferred vendor bench by geography (including the US APAC Europe and the Middle East) project type technical specialty security need scale and performance history.
• Identify where Anduril should introduce new vendors to increase capacity reduce risk improve pricing tension or access specialized capabilities.

Pre-Qualifications and Vendor Evaluation

• Establish a repeatable pre-qualification process for construction design consulting and specialty partners across our global vendor ecosystem.
• Define practical evaluation criteria including relevant experience team quality technical capability cost competitiveness schedule performance safety security requirements financial stability regional regulatory compliance local market dynamics and fit with Andurils pace.
• Build vendor evaluation templates interview guides reference-check approaches and scoring models that are rigorous but not bureaucratic.
• Maintain a central record of vendor qualifications strengths risks past performance and recommended use cases.

RFP SOW and Commercial Support

• Support select request for proposal (RFP) engagements for major or strategically important vendor categories spanning both domestic and international projects in partnership with Strategic Sourcing Procurement Legal Finance and D&C leadership.
• Help write clear scopes of work (SOW) that reduce ambiguity improve bid quality and set vendors up to deliver the intended outcome.
• Review proposals for scope gaps unclear assumptions exclusions staffing concerns commercial risk and operational feasibility.
• Provide D&C-side input into fee models rate cards reimbursables staffing plans change-management expectations escalation paths and performance requirements.

Vendor Performance Management

• Establish a vendor performance management rhythm for key D&C partners including scorecards business reviews escalation paths and action plans.
• Define practical KPIs across cost schedule quality responsiveness documentation safety change management and issue resolution.
• Create a feedback loop so project-level experiences influence future vendor selection and contracting decisions.
• Track vendor concentration capacity risk geographic coverage and recurring performance issues.
• Build executive-ready materials that communicate vendor performance risks recommendations and decisions needed.

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in construction management corporate real estate owners representation construction procurement vendor management commercial management project controls or a related field.
• Strong understanding of the construction project lifecycle including design preconstruction procurement construction commissioning closeout and handover.
• Experience working with construction-related vendors such as general contractors construction managers architects engineers specialty consultants owners reps commissioning agents inspectors or technical trade partners.
• Ability to evaluate vendor capabilities project teams scopes of work proposals and commercial structures with practical construction judgment.
• Strong written communication skills especially for scopes of work vendor recommendations executive summaries process documents and decision materials.
• Ability to operate cross-functionally with Construction Project Managers Procurement Strategic Sourcing Legal Finance technical stakeholders and senior leaders.
• Strong judgment and ownership; you can build a process where none exists but you know when not to over-process a fast-moving project team.
• Ability to communicate clearly with external vendors while representing Andurils pace standards and expectations.
• Willingness to travel up to 1020% of the time depending on project and vendor needs.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

• Experience with global or vendor ecosystems in the US APAC Europe and Middle East is highly valued.

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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