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Head of Strategic Supply Chain

Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa, CA · 2 days ago
Management$166k–$220k/yrFull-time

About the team

The Maneuver Dominance (MD) Team at Anduril develops aerial robotic systems designed to operate in large coordinated teams in concert with ground maneuver forces. We leverage existing Anduril drone platforms like Ghost, Altius, or Roadrunner, in addition to bringing 3rd party platforms into Anduril’s Lattice ecosystem. We develop perception and autonomy algorithms to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers.

About the job

As the Head of Strategic Supply Chain on Maneuver Dominance, you define how supply risk, continuity, and supplier performance are tracked, acted on, and reported for a first-of-kind product. You build the capabilities that make the supply base resilient before a disruption hits. You do not run procurement transactions. You own whether the supply base can deliver on cost, on schedule, and at rate.

Success in this position hinges on three key facets

  • Strategy that survives contact. You work with the Supply Chain leadership to set the supply chain strategy and translate it into roadmaps, leading indicators, and decisions that hold up ensure we not limited by a vendor’s performance.
  • Execution at velocity. Disruptions resolve in hours, not weeks. You diagnose the constraint, build the right people into the room, and drive the mitigation. The health of the supply chain will be reliant on you measuring the inputs and outputs effectively, and working closely with Supply Chain leadership to drive execution to plan.
  • Credibility-driven leadership. You earn trust across sourcing, engineering, production, quality, and supplier leadership by being rigorous, fast, and always right.

What you'll do

  • Work with Supply Chain leadership to set and own the supply chain strategy that takes a first of kind autonomous aircraft from development to rate, spanning supply assurance, supply-base resilience, and sourcing innovation.
  • Own supplier performance and time-to-resolution on disruptions mechanisms, driving sourcing strategy to reduce single-points-of-failure on the parts that gate delivery or rate.
  • Translate strategy into prioritized roadmaps and measurable outcomes, then drive cross-functional decisions when supply, engineering, quality and production priorities conflict.
  • Build and operationalize an innovation pipeline of supplier pilots, partnerships, and new capabilities that strengthen supply continuity and long-term cost position.
  • Connect supplier performance and supply risk to unit cost and the integrated master schedule, so supply chain health is visible in program level financial and schedule KPIs.
  • Leverage quantitative models, including trade studies, sensitivity analysis, and predictive modeling, to inform sourcing strategy and resource allocation.
  • Prepare analysis, documentation, and briefings for internal teams, suppliers, customers, and government stakeholders.

Required qualifications

  • 6+ years in supply chain strategy, sourcing, or supply program management on complex hardware programs through development and production.
  • Demonstrated ownership of supply risk and supplier performance on programs with aggressive timelines and rapid scale.
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional transformation without direct authority.
  • Ability to build or interpret quantitative models to inform sourcing and program decisions.
  • Familiarity with version control, scripting, scalable workflows, and reproducible analysis practices.
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Preferred qualifications

  • Lean Six Sigma certification or equivalent demonstrated application of structured problem solving and process improvement in production supply chains.
  • Experience in aerospace, defense, or autonomous systems supply chains.
  • Track record building and scaling innovation pipelines, supplier pilots, or new sourcing capabilities.
  • Proficiency with data tools such as Palantir Foundry, discrete event simulation, or custom analytics stacks.
  • Experience in trade studies, causal modeling, or sensitivity analysis applied to supply or production decisions.
  • Experience interfacing with government customers (DCMA, USAF) on supply status and delivery.

Pay

US Salary Range $166,000—$220,000 USD

Benefits

Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees)
  • Health, recovery, and whatever comes next support

Protecting yourself from recruitment scams

No Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates. Please always verify communications:

  • Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will only come from an @anduril.com address.
  • Via Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role, their email will clearly identify their agency.
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