Responsibilities

Lead and scale the Supplier Industrialization Engineering team, building a high-performing organization that drives supplier manufacturing readiness from new product introduction (NPI) through sustained production.
Attract, develop, and retain top talent; hold a high bar through coaching, feedback, and accountability.
Own the supplier industrialization process end-to-end: supplier capability assessments, Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), process capability validation, and First Article Inspection (FAI) to ensure suppliers are qualified and production-ready, critical components, ensuring continuity of supply, cost competitiveness, and resilience across the industrial base and capacity planning to support radical production rate increases.
Establish and maintain supplier quality standards and compliance with aerospace and defense
Collaborate cross-functionally with Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, Program Management, Quality, Manufacturing, and Finance to align supplier industrialization activities with program milestones and business objectives.
Lead and scale the Strategic Sourcing team, building a high-performing organization that drives strategic sourcing for nascent products and develops an industrial strategy to support supply chain through production and sustainment. Attract, develop, and retain top talent; hold a high bar through coaching, feedback, and accountability.
Partner with chief engineers and program managers of our most nascent programs to ensure the products they are defining are designed and pitched with a supply chain capable of delivering on their cost, schedule, and performance targets.
Identify opportunities for strategic agreements and partnerships with suppliers that capture cost savings, enable roadmap alignment, and strengthen the supply base for AD&S’s products.
Align supplier roadmaps with AD&S’s portfolio vision and roadmap, to enable the supply base to support AD&S as it expands.
Drive optionality and competition into the supply base, ensuring the supply base can support Anduril today and in the future.
Collaborate cross-functionally with Supplier Industrialization, Procurement, Program Management, Quality, Manufacturing, and Finance to align strategic sourcing activities with program milestones and business objectives.
Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and supplier scorecards to track industrial base health. Provide regular executive-level reporting on risks, opportunities, and performance.

Director of Strategic Supply Chain at Anduril Industries · LumiJobs

Director of Strategic Supply Chain

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Anduril Industries

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