Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Battery Pack (High Voltage Systems)

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Anduril · Costa Mesa, CA

$146K–$194K/yrFull-timeOn-site2d ago

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The Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Battery is the domain expert for the batteries commodities for Anduril Industries. This is a proactive, high-impact role in securing critical components, materials, and services that power our products. This role will be responsible for developing new supplier and new sourcing partnerships that can be incorporated into new products, as well as existing products to improve their technologies, cost, and quality. There is broad internal cross functional partnership to evaluate supplier opportunities, while ensuring commercial agreements, intellectual property, and statement of works are accurate and well established prior to pipelining.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute commodity strategies for batteries, 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 batteries manufacturing

Lead RFI/RFQ/RFP and strategic sourcing process for batteries

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

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

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

5+ years of experience in supply chain commodity management of batteries 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

Senior Global Sourcing Manager, Battery Pack (High Voltage Systems)

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