Staff Global Sourcing Manager, Energetics/Munitions
Anduril· Hardware Operations : Supply Chain : Global Sourcing & Supplier Development
Costa Mesa, California$191k - $253kFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Staff-level role focused on energetics commodities, leading global sourcing, supplier development, and commercial negotiations to secure parts, materials, and services for Anduril’s products, with cross-functional collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, and program management.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute commodity strategies for energetics, 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 for energetics manufacturing
- Lead RFI/RFQ/RFP and strategic sourcing process for energetics
- 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 properly reflect the expectations of project, which include fixed and variable costs, lead-times, schedules, manufacturing capacities, etc
- Conduct regular technology 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
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, or related technical field
- 10+ years of experience in supply chain commodity management of energetics/missiles 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
Skills
Required:Energetics commodity sourcing
Benefits
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees (location-specific)
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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