Demand Planner & Coordinator, Battlespace Awareness

The Anduril Battlespace Awareness Radar team develops state-of-the-art radar systems, deployed to tackle the most significant security challenges of America and its allies.

Anduril’s Battlespace Awareness business line is seeking a Demand & Build Planner (DBP) to join our team. The Demand & Build Planner will be responsible for carrying out research and analysis to predict product demand connecting customer sales opportunities to production requirements. This role engages in a variety of tasks such as creating and maintaining forecast models for business line leadership and production leads, maintaining demand data, updating long-range demand profiles, and contributing to build planning processes that keep Battlespace Awareness aligned with both near-term delivery needs and future demand. 

The right candidate for this role has experience working across multiple stakeholder groups (e.g., Leadership, Business Development, Supply Chain, Procurement, Production/Manufacturing, Finance, Operations) and can bring structure to complex planning problems. This person will be comfortable working in fast-paced environments, with the flexibility to support a variety of efforts to keep Battlespace Awareness product demand on track. If you thrive in such an environment, this role is for you. 

• Collaborate with Growth and Business Development teams to clarify and pull unit sales data from Salesforce and reconcile sales pipeline data with demand plans.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain Lead and Production lead to account for build constraints.
• Develop and maintain an 18-month rolling demand profile that reflects pipeline opportunities and internal demand for planning production capacity, supply requirements, customer requirements, constraints, and production rate ramps. Regular adjustments expected.
• Translate demand forecasts into build planning inputs used by Supply Chain and Production to plan materials and capacity.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain, Production, and Engineering to analyze demand against capacity and surface trade-offs and associated implications for Leadership to support decision making.
• Provide demand inputs in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) forums to align with enterprise-wide planning.
• Report on demand health, forecast accuracy, and risks to provide context for Leadership decisions.
• Support the refinement of demand planning processes, forecasting processes, data quality, planning tools, etc.
• Assign production units to specific customer deployments and partner closely with Deployment Operations team on coordination.  
• Work with business line leadership to determine priority with assigning production units for customer deployments.  

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, or supply chain within a fast-paced manufacturing environment dealing with complex assemblies.
• Ownership of a demand value chain, coordinating between multiple parties to ensure on-time deliveries and adherence to quality standards.
• Familiarity with ERP systems such as NetSuite/Oracle, and CRM systems like Salesforce.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a business or technical field such as finance, economics, supply chain management, business administration, marketing, mechanical/aerospace/manufacturing, electrical, or computer engineering.
• Strong technical ability, including reading technical documentation and understanding hardware manufacturing processes.
• Proactive, able to take substantial responsibility across various functions, with a focus on speed and accuracy.
• Organized and detail oriented.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

• Familiarity with Atlassian tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Familiarity with Mercury  
• Experience with SQL databases, including building custom queries for production and inventory metrics.
• Knowledge of supply chain planning systems like Blue Yonder and best practices in demand planning, inventory management, and S&OP.
• Proficiency in data analysis and reporting tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or Qlikview.