Global Plastics & Additives Sourcing Lead

Slope; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking a Senior Global Sourcing Manager for Plastics & Additive to lead strategic sourcing, supplier partnerships, and cross-functional alignment across engineering and manufacturing.

You will own commodity strategies, drive cost reduction, and ensure quality and supply continuity, while negotiating agreements and coordinating NPI to MP execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, or related technical field.
• 6+ years of experience in supply chain commodity management of plastics and additive 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute commodity strategies for plastics and additive, focusing on cost reduction, 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 plastics and additive manufacturing.
• Lead RFI/RFQ/RFP and strategic sourcing process for plastic and additive.
• Own the business relationship with external Contract Manufacturing and responsible for continuity of supply, risk management, cost negotiations, and NPI to MP operation execution.
• Partner with the Engineering team and Contract Manufacturers 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 CM’s 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 appropriately reflect project expectations, including fixed and variable costs, lead-times, schedules, and capacities.
• Conduct regular technology reviews to Executive staff and management.
• Own the supplier performance management of their respective commodities, including delivery, quality, cost, and innovation metrics.
• Act as the primary escalation for their respective commodity.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Negotiation

Data-driven analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in supply chain, engineering, or related technical field

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA is seeking a Senior Global Sourcing Manager for Plastics & Additive to lead strategic sourcing, supplier partnerships, and cross-functional alignment across engineering and manufacturing.

You will own commodity strategies, drive cost reduction, and ensure quality and supply continuity, while negotiating agreements and coordinating NPI to MP execution.