Buyer, Maritime

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold.

Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

As a member of the Supply Chain team, you will be responsible for managing the procurement process and contributing to the strategic sourcing initiatives of the organization. This is an exciting opportunity to be apart a growing and dynamic team working closely with engineering, finance and manufacturing teams to ensure that our accelerated challenges are executed efficiently and effectively.

The right person for this role is someone who enjoys launching new products, has excellent procure to pay experience in a manufacturing environment and is someone who excels at communicating clearly, managing many tasks in a fast paced environment, and creating and maintaining standard operating procedures.

- Purchase Order Management: Create, issue, and manage purchase orders to meet production and program needs.

- Maintain day to day relationships with suppliers, monitor performance, and resolve issues related to quality, delivery, and pricing.

- Quickly resolve supply chain disruptions, delivery delays, and quality issues to keep projects on track.

- Monitor and expedite orders to meet deadlines and production schedules.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration with stakeholders such as engineering, manufacturing, and program teams to align procurement with company goals.

- Maintain accurate records, track procurement KPIs, and identify opportunities to streamline processes.

- Support the development and implementation of sourcing strategy for direct commodities and/or categories.

- Documenting and reporting supplier performance and actively participate in monthly weekly and daily review processes as required.

- Support continuous improvement initiatives for cost savings, quality improvement, and on-time delivery.

- Support the supplier life cycle from supplier selection, adoption, induction, through to ongoing management and exit (where applicable).

- 5+ years technical procurement experience in a manufacturing environment

- Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives

- Ability to work in cross functional teams and collaborate with across functions / borders

- Good understanding and interpretation of related design specification

- Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills including high discretion/judgment in decision making

- Ability to work and excel within a fast paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment