Head of Raw Materials & Energetics Strategic Supply Chain

Anduril; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 253,000 - 336,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a Director-level Head of Raw Materials & Energetics Strategic Supply Chain to own sourcing strategy for critical minerals, rare earths, and energetic materials. You will build a capable team and collaborate with Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and executives to ensure uninterrupted production and strategic advantage.

The role requires strong negotiation, multi-tier supplier management, and experience navigating geopolitically influenced markets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a technical discipline.
• 10+ years in raw materials & energetics strategic sourcing or defense-critical supply chains.
• 5+ years of leadership building and scaling procurement teams.
• Experience negotiating enterprise-level agreements for complex materials (minerals, magnets, energetic systems).
• Willingness to travel up to 25–50% domestically and internationally; ability to relocate to Costa Mesa if needed.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute multi-year global sourcing strategies for raw materials and energetic formulations.
• Lead and mentor a global team of commodity managers and sourcing engineers.
• Drive supplier relationships to mitigate geopolitical bottlenecks and single-sourcing risks.
• Negotiate MSAs, development agreements, LTAs, and complex SOWs with pricing, IP, and lead-time terms.
• Manage end-to-end supply chain resilience and risk mitigation strategies.
• Provide market intelligence and price risk management to insulate the business.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Team leadership

Negotiations

Supply chain resilience

Market intelligence

Executive communication

Education

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

Bachelor's degree in mechanical/chemical engineering

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE JOB

Anduril is building systems at a rate the traditional defense industrial base was not designed to support — and one of the hardest constraints is materials. The Head of Raw Materials & Energetics Strategic Supply Chain owns that constraint end-to-end, and leads the team accountable for solving it.

This Director-level role owns sourcing strategy across all raw materials and energetic commodities: critical minerals and strategic elements (e.g., germanium, gallium, titanium), rare earth magnets, energetic materials (propellants, explosives, pyrotechnics), and energetic subsystems (solid rocket motors, warheads). Many of these markets are geographically concentrated, export-controlled, or served by a supply base too small to meet our demand — so the job is not only buying supply, but helping build it. You will have unusual latitude to do that, bringing creative commercial structures and capital to bear on problems that cannot be negotiated away.

You will build and lead a high-performing team of commodity managers, strategic sourcing leads, and technical sourcing engineers, and carry material strategies from early-stage R&D and New Product Introduction through qualification into sustained high-volume production. Partnering with Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Government Relations, and Executive Leadership, your team is what guarantees Anduril is never rate-limited by material availability.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Commodity Strategy & Roadmap: Define and execute multi-year global sourcing strategies for critical raw materials, strategic minerals, rare earth elements/magnets, and energetic formulations (solid rocket motor propellants, primers, secondary explosives, pyrotechnic devices).
• Team Leadership & Scale: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of commodity managers, strategic sourcing leads, and technical sourcing engineers across multiple global sites.
• Executive Supplier Relationship Management: Drive deep sub-tier visibility beyond Tier 1 down to processors, smelters, refiners, and chemical synthesis partners to preempt geopolitical bottlenecks, export controls, and single-source dependencies. Establish long-term strategic alliances, joint development agreements, and robust performance management systems (QBRs, KPIs, scorecards).
• Commercial & Strategic Negotiations: Lead high-stakes negotiations for master service agreements (MSAs), development agreements, long-term agreements (LTAs), and complex statement of works (SOWs)—optimizing pricing structures, IP protection, warranty, payment terms, and lead-time commitments.
• Supply Chain Resilience & Risk Mitigation: Drill down through multi-tier value chains—all the way to raw material—to pinpoint critical bottlenecks, geopolitical vulnerabilities, and single points of failure before they materialize. Own end-to-end resolution (e.g., alternative source qualification, capacity investment, strategic buffer) to ensure Anduril's production is never rate-limited by supply.
• Market Intelligence & Price Risk Management: Build the analytical backbone for volatile, geopolitically-influenced commodity markets — index-based pricing, floor/ceiling structures, hedging, and long-horizon cost roadmaps — to insulate Anduril from market shocks.
• Executive Communication: Conduct regular operational and strategic reviews with C-suite and executive leadership, serving as the primary executive escalation point for all raw materials and energetics supply matters.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Operations, Business, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in raw materials & energetics strategic sourcing, global commodity management of specialty chemicals, or defense-critical supply chains.
• 5+ years of proven experience building, managing, and scaling high-performing procurement or supply chain teams.
• Demonstrated expertise negotiating enterprise-level agreements and managing critical minerals/rare earths (e.g., Germanium, NdFeB magnets) and/or energetic systems (propellants, rocket motors, pyrotechnics).
• Proven track record of managing supplier lifecycles and negotiating complex multi-million-dollar commercial agreements.
• Deep understanding of New Product Introduction (NPI) workflows and scaling from prototype to high-rate production.
• Ability to travel up to 25%-50% domestically and internationally as needed.
• Ability to relocate, if not already local to be onsite in Costa Mesa.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, or materials science
• Previous experience in defense, aerospace, automotive, high tech, or related industry
• Well-versed in TCO analysis and should costing to ensure data-driven analytics tied to component and supplier selection, in a product-based ecosystem
• Proven track record of managing supplier lifecycles and negotiating complex multi-million-dollar commercial agreements.
• 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
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security clearance

US Salary Range

$253,000 — $336,000 USD

Benefits

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