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Salary: USD 191,000 - 253,000 / annual
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, seeks a Staff Global Sourcing Manager for Rare Earth Magnets to serve as the domain expert and single-threaded leader for critical mineral sourcing. This high-impact role focuses on securing raw materials that power Anduril's products against a backdrop of concentrated geopolitical risk, volatile pricing, and opaque multi-tier supply chains.
You will own the global mandate end-to-end: market intelligence, tiered supply chain mapping, supplier and government relationship management, should-cost modeling, contracting, and stockpiling strategy. You will operate as the hub of a cross-functional pod to translate Anduril's aggregate demand into a resilient sourcing strategy that enhances supplies from US-friendly sources, protects bill-of-materials cost, and ensures continuity of supply across new product introduction and mass production phases.
Key responsibilities include:
**Strategy & Visibility:** Own the commodity strategy for your assigned critical mineral with explicit focus on supply chain resilience, geopolitical risk mitigation (particularly PRC concentration in mining and refinement), cost, and quality. Build and maintain tiered supply chain mapping from Anduril end products down to raw material, quantifying revenue exposure and BOM impact to prioritize intervention areas.
**Market Intelligence & Communications:** 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.
**Sourcing Execution:** Lead RFI/RFQ/RFP processes across miners, refiners, processors, and component suppliers. Perform should-cost and total-cost-of-ownership analysis; negotiate key agreements (offtake, pricing, capacity reservations, payment terms) suited to volatile, concentrated markets. Evaluate and recommend strategic interventions (stockpiling, prepayments, joint ventures, equity investments, vertical integration), partnering with Corporate Development and Finance.
**Relationship Management:** 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.
**Cross-Functional Leadership:** Lead a cross-functional pod spanning product sourcing, parent commodity managers, Engineering, and CorpDev/Finance. Partner with Engineering to qualify alternates, influence specifications, and design out single points of failure.
**Supplier & Performance Management:** Own supplier performance (delivery, quality, cost, innovation), serving as primary escalation point and managing continuity of supply through NPI-to-MP transitions.
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, engineering, or related technical field
- 10+ 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 to Costa Mesa, CA if not already local; onsite presence required
**Preferred Qualifications:**
- Advanced degree (Master's or Doctorate) in materials science, chemical sciences, metallurgical or mining engineering; MBA is a plus
- Previous experience in defense, aerospace, automotive, high tech, or related industry with deep raw material dependencies
- Experience working with U.S. government programs supporting domestic critical mineral supply (DPA Title III, DOE Loan Programs Office, DLA National Defense Stockpile)
- Hands-on experience with multi-tier supply chain visibility tools
- Strong should-cost and TCO analysis skills in a product-based ecosystem
- Strategic thinker with track record of building commodity roadmaps alongside engineering and finance stakeholders
- Experience structuring or supporting non-traditional commercial arrangements (long-term offtake, prepayments, equity investments, joint ventures)
- Proven cross-functional leadership and ability to influence at all levels of an organization
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance
