Director, Supplier Development – Engineered Items

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🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

💵 $186.2k - $353.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 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

• Lead and manage a global, cross-regional commodity supplier development team • Set and deploy strategy for supplier performance, risk mitigation, and capability advancement across all sites and programs within the commodity • Own and oversee commodity-level portfolio management including GMRE exposure, product lifecycle status, supplier performance, and spend distribution • Drive manufacturing process standardization and execution within the supply base, ensuring alignment with technology and operational excellence goals • Champion product knowledge maturity, value engineering, and cost improvement programs across the commodity supply base • Implement and sustain part/part family/commodity-level risk identification, FMEA (including DFMEA), and mitigation strategies • Act as the Global Supplier Development sponsor for assigned Strategic Business Units (SBU), serving as the primary interface between GSD and SBU executive leadership • Represents the commodity team in senior level forums, ensuring supplier development priorities are aligned with BU goals and strategic initiatives (e.g., profit recovery, BCC transitions) • Operate as a matched pair with BU supply chain leadership to co-own goals, drive aligned priorities and resolve escalations • Provide a data-driven, balanced voice of the supply base in BU decision-making processes • Drive SBU KPIs alignment and prioritization across commodity actions to ensure resources and initiatives are focused where most impactful • Support business travel to supplier sites as needed - minimum of 50% of time

🎯 Requirements

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum of 14 years prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 12 years’ experience • Demonstrated leadership of global teams and success in cross-functional, matrixed environments • Analytical skills and ability to interpret complex data sets and KPIs • Site Lead/Ops Manager experience or a proven track record in supplier performance improvement and development • University degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, or a related field • Strong manufacturing and quality systems expertise, including FMEA, PFMEA, APQP, Root Cause Analysis, Corrective Action planning, and performance tracking tools • Experience in regulated or complex manufacturing industries (aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial systems) • Six Sigma or Lean certification (Green Belt or higher) • Executive‑level communication and influencing skills with the ability to lead through ambiguity and drive accountability across regions and functions.

🏖️ 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 • And more!