Andurilindustries
Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Radar/Long Range
Costa Mesa, California, United States. Posted 13 months ago
The role
The Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Radar is a domain expert responsible for securing critical radar components, materials, and services. This role develops supplier partnerships and executes commodity strategies to improve technology, cost, and quality.
What you will do
- Develop and execute commodity strategies for radar focusing on cost reduction, quality improvement, and supply chain resilience
- Deliver quality parts at the right cost
- Lead RFI/RFQ/RFP and strategic sourcing process for radar
- Own the business relationship with external Contract Manufacturing
- Partner with Engineering team and Contract Manufacturers to influence technical design specs
- Perform detailed analysis of quote submissions based on cost breakdown
- Work with cross-functional teams to support prototype requirements and execute build milestones
- Influence CM manufacturing processes and CapEx and technology decisions
- Negotiate key agreements with suppliers
- Manage supplier performance management including delivery, quality, cost, and innovation metrics
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, or related technical field
- 5+ years of experience in supply chain commodity management of radar manufacturing, and/or sourcing engineering
- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in physics, electrical or mechanical 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
- Strong team player
- Fluent in other cross functional areas to fill gaps and remove roadblocks
Benefits
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees
Before you apply
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance
- Consent to pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening
About the company
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. The company's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.