Associate Director, RFX Lead

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🦌 Connecticut – Remote

🦌 Connecticut – Remote

💵 $157.2k - $298.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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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

• Build, lead, and develop a centralized RFX team that supports all three SBUs with consistent processes and high-quality service delivery • Design and implement a standardized, enterprise-wide RFX framework, ensuring alignment with sourcing strategies, compliance requirements, and organizational goals • Oversee end-to-end execution of all RFX activities, including project intake, scoping, documentation development, supplier engagement, evaluation, and award coordination • Partner with sourcing teams and Commodity Leads to identify opportunities for cost savings, efficiency improvements, and value creation across categories and business units • Create and own KPIs, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms to measure team performance, cycle times, quality, compliance, and realized savings • Develop and maintain streamlined workflows, templates, and governance models to enhance operational efficiency and consistency • Ensure RFX processes support speed, quality, and fairness in supplier selection while promoting competitive and strategic sourcing outcomes • Coach and mentor the RFX team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, collaboration, and professional development • Lead cross-functional communication and change management efforts to drive adoption of the centralized RFX model and secure stakeholder alignment • Monitor industry best practices and emerging tools in procurement and RFX management; recommend and implement enhancements to systems, processes, and methodologies • Provide leadership oversight for supplier interactions during RFX events to ensure professionalism, strategic alignment, and clarity in communications • Produce regular executive-level reports summarizing activity volumes, outcomes, savings performance, and strategic insights • Travel up to 40% required

🎯 Requirements

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 16 years of relevant experience • 8+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or supply chain, with at least 3 years in a leadership or managerial role • Experience developing and managing enterprise-level RFX processes, tools, or centralized sourcing functions • Experience with DFAR compliant proposals • Proven knowledge of sourcing best practices, competitive bidding methodology, procurement governance, and supplier evaluation techniques

🏖️ Benefits

• Healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits • Parental (including paternal) leave • Flexible work schedules • Achievement awards • Educational assistance • Child/adult backup care