Procurement Manager, Subcontracts

Hadrian; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life

401k

Relocation support may be provided

Flexible vacation

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian is seeking a Procurement Manager, Subcontracts to own end-to-end sourcing for externally manufactured requirements. You will manage RFQ through PO delivery, drive cost, quality, and schedule targets, and build supplier relationships essential to program success.

You'll lead cross-functional teams across buyers, supplier quality, and factory ops, develop long-term strategies, and ensure compliance with all policies and ITAR. Travel to supplier sites may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree with 5+ years in engineering, procurement, or supply chain.
• Experience in CNC machining, forgings, metals, and tooling preferred.
• Strong negotiation and supplier management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Own supplier selection and sourcing strategy for externally manufactured needs.
• Coordinate with buyers, supplier quality, and factory ops across the org.
• Manage KPIs and drive improvements in SLA, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Develop long-term strategies for cost down, quality, and capacity ramp.
• Escalate negotiations and resolve issues in-process to protect program timelines.
• Ensure policy and regulatory compliance, including ITAR considerations.
• Present supplier health and order-book status to leadership.
• Collaborate with product and software teams to improve tools and processes.
• Review specifications for manufacturability and provide supply chain feedback.
• Support make-vs-buy decisions with internal quotes and feasibility.
• Proactively address blockers with the open order management group.

Skills

Supplier sourcing

Negotiation

Cross-functional leadership

KPI management

Supply chain optimization

Education

Engineering degree

Procurement/Supply chain degree

Job description

Hadrian - Manufacturing the Future

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. By combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we help aerospace and defense companies build rockets, satellites, aircraft, ships, and other mission-critical systems up to 10x faster and at significantly lower cost. Following our $1.37B Series D at a $7.87B valuation, Hadrian is rapidly expanding our manufacturing footprint, launching new capabilities across welding, casting, forging, electronics, additive manufacturing, and more, while scaling our Factory-as-a-Service platform to transform how critical products are built. Backed by leading investors including JPMorgan Chase, Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Lux Capital, T. Rowe Price, and Morgan Stanley, we’re building the future of American manufacturing—and looking for exceptional people to help make it happen. If you’re ready to take on the most challenging and rewarding work of your career while helping create American manufacturing jobs for generations to come, you’re exactly who we’re looking for.

The Role

The Procurement Manager, Subcontracts role is responsible for total accountability of strategy and execution for fulfillment of orders relating to Subcontract Supply Chain (externally manufactured). This role sits at the intersection of sourcing and requisition, contract management, and supplier performance: acting as the connective tissue between our customers, internal teams, and supply base. You will be accountable owner of full lifecycle from RFQ through PO delivery, ensuring we hit cost, quality, and schedule targets while building the supplier relationships that sustain long-term program success. This role is a critical function in developing a world class procurement service prioritizing quality, cost, and speed.

What You’ll Do

• Own the supplier selection and sourcing strategy for demand relating to externally manufactured requirements from end-customers and internal factory ops needs.
• Operate as the primary point of direction to the supporting functions of the org across buyers, coordinators, supplier quality, and internal factory ops and customer facing groups.
• Managing operational KPIs and taking proper action to improve performance as it relates to transactional SLAs, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Develop long term strategies that support various customer and organizational objective, such as: cost down initiatives, quality improvements, supply base growth and strategy, capacity analysis and rate ramp readiness.
• Operate as escalation path for negotiation, commercial resolution, and in-process order fulfillment.
• Ensure compliance with all company and customer policies, requirements, procedures and government regulations while acting with integrity and prioritizing the needs of company and programs.
• Present value propositions, open risks, and health of supply base and order book to leadership.
• Manage the creation and evolution of governing standard operating procedures and working closely with the internal product and software team on developing adequate tool set to consistently improve operations.
• Work with suppliers and relevant internal functions on technical review of specifications, providing design for manufacturability and supply chain feedback where and when applicable.
• Work with internal quoting teams on make versus buy analysis and decision making as it relates to manufacturing parts through internal core factory or externally through managed supply base.
• Work closely with open order management group to ensure blockers and risks are addressed with priority and proactively actioning to prevent future issues.
• Understand business needs at a high level to proactively take action and direct team to operate in a way that sets the company up for success at scale.
• Periodically visit suppliers on-site to ensure alignment on growth plans, strategy, performance feedback and guidance, and resolution of any blockers or points of friction.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor's or advanced degree with 5+ years of experience working in one or more of the following:
• Engineering (mechanical, aerospace, chemical, materials)
• Purchasing/Procurement (CNC machining, forgings, metallic raw materials, sheet metal, production tooling)
• Contract Negotiation
• Supply Chain Management
• Material / Demand Planning
• Experience in identifying and executing an optimized machining supply chain, or other complex supply chain systems in advanced manufacturing sub-commodities

What Will Set You Apart

• Demonstrated success in managing large value contracts and supply base while balancing high-frequency of change and effectively balancing trade-offs between quality, cost, and schedule.
• Ability to easily navigate technical engineering specifications (drawings, models, etc) with a fundamental understanding of how components should optimally be manufactured or built.
• Ability to learn program context quickly and prioritize items effectively so that goals are properly met.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to successfully manage cross-functional teams across various factory operations functions.

Compensation

For this role, the target salary range is $130,000 - $165,000 (actual range may vary based on experience). This is the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee's pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Benefits for Full-time Employees

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
• 401k
• Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.
• Flexible vacation policy
• Equity

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Use of AI in hiring

Hadrian uses AI-assisted tools in our recruiting and hiring processes to help our team work more efficiently. This may include tools that help organize and analyze recruiting data, as well as an AI-powered notetaker that can record and transcribe interviews and help coordinate feedback. These tools support our team and are not used to make hiring decisions. All candidate evaluations and hiring decisions are performed by humans. If an interview will be recorded, you will be notified in advance and may opt out at any time with no impact on your candidacy. Candidate data processed through these tools is subject to the same protections described in our Privacy Policy.

Hadrian Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the Company’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. The Company does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race inclusive of traits historically associated with race (including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, such as braids, locks and twists), color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, national origin (including, in California, possession of a drivers license), ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, height or weight, medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, exercise of reproductive rights, any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws, or any combination of the above characteristics. When necessary, the Company also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled candidates and employees, including for candidates or employees who are disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.