Senior Global Sheet Metal Sourcing Lead | TS Clearance

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA seeks a Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Sheet Metal to own metals commodities strategy and supplier relationships across the business. You will lead end-to-end sourcing, RFx processes, and TCO analyses, collaborating with Engineering to optimize cost, quality, and delivery, while supporting new product introductions and maintaining supply resilience.

The role requires coordinating cross-functional teams, negotiating long-term contracts, and ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, or related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in supply chain commodity management of raw metals, 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 sheet metal (stainless steel, aluminum, titanium, etc.), focusing on cost reduction, technology development, quality improvement, and supply chain resilience.
• End-to-end responsibility for delivering quality materials and/or parts, when needed, at the right cost.
• Act as the sourcing expert for sheet metal.
• Aggregate raw metals usage across all Anduril business units and within the supply chain to develop company-wide sourcing strategies.
• Lead RFI/RFQ/RFP and strategic sourcing process for raw metals.
• Own the business relationship with external Suppliers and responsible for continuity of supply, risk management, cost negotiations, and NPI to MP operation execution.
• Partner with the Engineering team and Suppliers 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 Supplier 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 properly reflect the expectations of project, which include fixed and variable costs, lead-times, schedules, manufacturing capacities, etc
• Conduct regular commodity reviews to Executive staff and management
• Own the supplier performance management of their respective commodities, which includes key delivery, quality, cost, and innovation metrics
• Act as the primary escalation for their respective commodity

Skills

Travel up to 50%

Onsite in Costa Mesa, CA

Sourcing leadership

Education

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

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA seeks a Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Sheet Metal to own metals commodities strategy and supplier relationships across the business. You will lead end-to-end sourcing, RFx processes, and TCO analyses, collaborating with Engineering to optimize cost, quality, and delivery, while supporting new product introductions and maintaining supply resilience.

The role requires coordinating cross-functional teams, negotiating long-term contracts, and ensuring