Supplier Development Program Lead

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🏈 Alabama – Remote

🏈 Alabama – Remote

💵 $107.5k - $204.5k / year

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RTX

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10,000+ employees

🚀 Aerospace

🎖️ Defense

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 $200k Grant - RTX on 2024-11

Aerospace • Defense • Manufacturing

RTX is a multinational aerospace and defense company that brings together aviation and defense businesses—including Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney and Raytheon—to design, manufacture and service aircraft engines, auxiliary power units, integrated aerospace systems and defense solutions. The company focuses on advancing technologies that power flight, strengthen national security and support government and commercial customers worldwide, with a global presence across the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. RTX emphasizes engineering, manufacturing, and research to solve complex technical challenges for aviation and defense.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary Supplier Development representative supporting an assigned Strategic Business Unit (SBU). • Partner closely with Procurement (Supply Chain) to understand business priorities and translate them into supplier development strategies and execution plans. • Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality to align supplier development activities with business needs. • Participate in SBU operating reviews and cross-functional meetings, providing updates on supplier performance, risks, and improvement initiatives. • Support prioritization of supplier development resources based on business needs and operational impact. • Ability to travel domestically and/or internationally up to 30%. • Manage and monitor SBU supplier development KPIs, including leading and lagging indicators, to evaluate supplier performance, readiness, and operational risk. • Identify emerging supplier risks and coordinate mitigation plans with Procurement (Supply Chain) and cross-functional stakeholders. • Serve as the primary escalation point for supplier development issues impacting the SBU, coordinating with crisis teams or cross-functional response teams as needed. • Monitor supplier recovery and improvement plans, ensuring actions are effectively executed and sustained. • Provide regular reporting and insights to support business reviews and operational decision-making. • Lead supplier development activities for assigned business programs by coordinating priorities, tracking execution milestones, managing risks, and ensuring timely delivery of development objectives. • Partner with Procurement (Supply Chain), Operations, and Supplier Development teams to align supplier capacity with production demand and New Product Introduction (NPI) requirements. • Support demand forecast reviews to ensure supplier readiness and timely execution of development activities. • Coordinate execution of Supplier Development Plans (SDPs) for critical suppliers supporting the assigned SBU. • Track progress of supplier development initiatives and communicate status, risks, and recovery actions to stakeholders. • Coordinate supplier development activities across Procurement (Supply Chain), Supplier Development, Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and Operations to support integrated business priorities. • Collaborate with Global Supplier Development Commodity Leads and Procurement teams to drive consistent supplier development strategies across multiple commodities. • Foster collaboration across a matrix organization to ensure alignment on supplier priorities, resource allocation, and risk mitigation. • Share best practices and lessons learned across Supplier Development teams to support continuous improvement.

🎯 Requirements

• Typically requires: A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years experience. • Experience in Supplier Development, Procurement, Supply Chain, Supplier Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, or a related function within a complex manufacturing environment. • Demonstrated experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives in a highly matrixed organization. • Experience in supplier performance management, capacity planning, operational readiness, and supply chain risk management.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees • Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option • Tuition reimbursement program • Student Loan Repayment Program • Life insurance and disability coverage • Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection • Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits • Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning • Adoption Assistance • Autism Benefit • Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions • Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program • Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits • Bright Horizons, child and elder care services • Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program