Demand Planner & Coordinator, Mission Systems

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.

The focus of the Anduril Mission Systems Division is to develop, produce and deploy best-in-class sensors and mission-enabling payloads for superior battlespace awareness across all relevant domains, platforms and missions.

Anduril’s Mission Systems team is seeking a Demand & Build Planner (DBP) to support our Battlespace Awareness and Imaging groups. 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 our teams 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 Net Suite/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…