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Director, Supply Chain Planning Process

Anduril· Programs : Demand & Supply Planning : Demand & Supply Planning
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Costa Mesa, CA$191k - $253kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Director responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing global Supply Chain Planning Processes, enabling real-time decisioning, risk mitigation, and alignment across engineering, manufacturing, finance, and deployments in a high-growth defense technology environment.

Responsibilities

  • Develop & Optimize Supply Chain Planning Processes
  • Design and implement scalable, standardized S&OP, S&OE, and Materials Planning processes to ensure efficiency, quality, and repeatability across the company.
  • Establish requirements and new use cases to push processes and tools, ensuring coordination between supply chain, manufacturing, engineering, finance, and deployments.
  • Set standards and identify gaps using data, scorecards, metrics with full transparency; create elegant solutions to complex problems to drive change and improvements.
  • Support expansion of the Central Planning team and tools for real-time decisioning and risk mitigation as the company scales.
  • Drive Process Integration by enabling integration and adoption of digital tools and analytics platforms.
  • Ensure Planning has a voice in company-wide initiatives and establish standardized planning processes for new Business Lines and acquisitions.
  • Develop a centralized knowledge repository for processes, best practices, guidelines, and onboarding materials.
  • Partner cross-functionally to align planning strategies and inputs/outputs with business and customer needs.
  • Develop and maintain planning playbooks and SOPs; implement scalable, cost-efficient planning solutions with internal and external partners.
  • Build and lead a high-performing planning process team; represent Planning in executive forums; contribute to 2-5 year strategic planning.
  • Provide mentorship and training; develop onboarding programs; maintain leadership effectiveness in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree (or Bachelor’s with extensive relevant experience) in planning, supply chain, operations planning, operations finance, or related field
  • 10+ years of direct leadership experience in S&OP, S&OE, Supply Chain, or Materials Planning in fast-growing industries
  • 8+ years leading teams implementing large-scale planning systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, IBP, Kinaxis, Manugistics, Palantir)
  • Expertise in Planning & Inventory Systems; designing, implementing, adopting, and scaling complex enterprise systems
  • Experience integrating AI into process environments and automating processes, reporting, and presentations
  • Track record of scalable, repeatable planning frameworks to improve efficiency and mission success globally
  • Ability to manage and influence across divisional and functional leadership
  • Excellent communication, leadership, presentation, and interpersonal skills for change management
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Skills

Required:S&OPS&OEMaterials PlanningPlanning Systems (SAP/Oracle/IBP/Kinaxis/Manugistics/Palantir)

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package (health, recovery, and future planning)
  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
  • Equity grants as part of total compensation package
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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