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Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Rare Earth Magnets

Anduril· Hardware Operations : Supply Chain : Global Sourcing & Supplier Development
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Costa Mesa, CA$166k - $220kPosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior Global Sourcing Manager leading critical minerals (Rare Earth Magnets) with end-to-end ownership of market intelligence, supplier relationships, should-cost analysis, contracting, and stockpiling strategy to ensure supply resilience and cost control for Anduril’s products.

Responsibilities

  • Own the commodity strategy for your assigned critical mineral, focusing on supply chain resilience, geopolitical risk mitigation, cost, and quality
  • Build and maintain tiered supply chain mapping from Anduril end products to raw material, quantify revenue exposure and BOM impact
  • Maintain expert-level market intelligence and deliver weekly updates on pricing, disruptions, and geopolitical signals
  • Host monthly cross-functional pod tag-ups, lead quarterly strategy reviews, and conduct regular executive briefings on market conditions and mitigation plans
  • Lead RFI/RFQ/RFP processes across miners, refiners, processors, and component suppliers
  • Perform should-cost and TCO analysis; negotiate key agreements (oftake, pricing, capacity reservations, payment terms)
  • Evaluate and recommend strategic interventions (stockpiling, prepayments, JVs, equity investments, vertical integration) in collaboration with CorpDev and Finance
  • Build trusted relationships with suppliers, industry associations, and U.S./allied government bodies (DoD, DPA Title III, DLA, DOE)
  • Represent Anduril externally for your commodity
  • Lead a cross-functional pod spanning product sourcing, parent commodity managers, Engineering, and CorpDev/Finance
  • Partner with Engineering to qualify alternates, influence specs, and design out single points of failure
  • Own supplier performance (delivery, quality, cost, innovation) and manage continuity of supply through NPI-to-MP transitions

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, or related technical field
  • 5+ years of experience in commodity management, strategic sourcing with direct exposure to critical minerals or their downstream products (e.g., rare earth magnets, germanium, gallium, tungsten, antimony, lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese)
  • Demonstrated experience navigating concentrated, geopolitically sensitive supply chains
  • Ability to travel up to 50% of the time, including international travel to mines, refiners, and processors
  • Ability to relocate, if not already local to be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA

Skills

Required:Commodity strategyMarket intelligenceSupplier relationship managementSourcing execution (RFI/RFQ/RFP)Should-cost and TCO analysis
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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