Supplier Development Program Lead

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🕒 August 7

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $132.4k - $251.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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RTX

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2020

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Manufacturing • Consulting • Logistics

RTX is a globally recognized aerospace and defense company dedicated to transformative technologies and era-defining innovation. It operates through various businesses, including Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon, with a focus on sustainable, connected flight and smarter defense systems. RTX is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion across the company and aims to solve the world’s most complex problems with cutting-edge technology and talent. Additionally, RTX is involved in significant projects like upgrading the F135 Engine Core and developing missile-defense systems. The company emphasizes corporate responsibility and sustainable practices.

📋 Description

• Own and manage SBU-specific supplier development KPIs, including leading and lagging indicators, to track supplier performance, risk, and maturity • Represent supplier development priorities in SBU staff meetings and communicate strategic alignment • Lead and support SBU tiered meetings with updates on supplier development efforts, escalations, and impact on critical programs • Align resource prioritization and supplier strategy with Value Stream Leaders and SBU stakeholders • Serve as the SBU focal representative for supplier quality, delivery, and readiness issues • Act as an escalation point of contact for teams • Interface between SBU operations and Global Supplier Development to ensure clear handoffs, alignment, and feedback loops • Support SBU program planning so supplier capacity and development actions align with execution or NPI ramp-up timelines • Coordinate integrated supplier development strategies with cross-functional program committees • Facilitate Supplier Development Plans within the assigned SBU with Global Supplier Development and commodity leaders • Drive collaboration across Sourcing, Engineering, Quality, and Operations to improve supplier performance • Support suppliers as needed for up to 50% of the time

🎯 Requirements

• University Degree and minimum 10 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience • Demonstrated understanding of casting and/or forging products and manufacturing processes • Proven history of cross-functional program leadership, KPI management, and escalation handling • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and business acumen • Excellent communication skills • Demonstrated knowledge of supplier management and business • Experience with supplier risk management, APQP, AS9100, or complex manufacturing environments • Strong knowledge of supplier collaboration strategy, planning, and risk management frameworks • U.S. citizenship, U.S. person status, or qualifying immigration status required to access information under the program/contract • Ability to support suppliers as needed up to 50% of the time

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees • Generous 401(k) plan with employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution • Lifetime Income Strategy option • Tuition reimbursement program • Student Loan Repayment Program • Life insurance and disability coverage • Optional pet insurance • Optional home and auto insurance • Optional additional life and accident insurance • Optional critical illness insurance • Optional group legal coverage • Optional ID theft protection • Birth, adoption, and 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 • Flexible work schedules • Employee Scholar Program • Paid time off • Holidays • Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be available, depending on position level and collective-bargaining coverage