Senior Supplier Development Lead

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🦌 Connecticut – Remote

🦌 Connecticut – Remote

💵 $107.5k - $204.5k / year

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RTX

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2020

🚀 Aerospace

Aerospace • Defense • Sustainability

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

• Lead internal and supplier containment actions in collaboration with Operations and Quality • Facilitate supplier kick-off meetings to align expectations and establish rapid response actions • Conduct Root Cause and Corrective Action (RRCA) investigations to resolve critical quality or delivery issues • Coordinate with stakeholders to develop and implement improvement plans and ensure clear communication through plan review checkpoints • Monitor leading and lagging Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to assess progress • Evaluate whether exit criteria have been achieved for containment efforts • Escalate persistent issues to crisis mode or tiger teams when warranted • Partner with Commodity Teams and SBUs to ensure closed-loop feedback and transition to sustainable operations • Lead supplier site identification and prioritize development efforts aligned with risk, impact, and strategic commodity needs • Conduct supplier assessments using OCRA (Operational Capability & Risk Assessment) tool • Engage suppliers with development roadmaps, training, and targeted actions tied to maturity models and long-term growth • Align with Commodity Managers and Engineering teams on supplier readiness for new programs or volume ramp-ups • Facilitate structured improvement plan development, KPI tracking, and gate reviews • Monitor progress toward achieving target maturity levels and initiate sustainment planning once development objectives are met • Support long-term monitoring and re-engagement cycles to ensure supplier performance remains stable • Provide leadership and/or support for supplier transitions, ensuring a smooth handover of work scope with minimal disruption • Support the sustainment phase by monitoring supplier maturity post-transition and ensuring long-term capability • Align with internal business units and suppliers to reinforce performance expectations and continuous improvement efforts • Execute APQP for new product launch and work transition projects

🎯 Requirements

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience • The ideal candidate must have a high energy level, experience working with cross-functional personnel, high communication skills including ability to develop a network of relationships with the various Collins Aerospace business units, strong work orientation and be well organized • Ability to apply CORE principles/tools to manage processes, ensuring continuous improvement in the systems and benchmarking best practices enhancing customer satisfaction at all levels • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite Applications (MS project, Word, Excel, Power Point, MS Access)

🏖️ 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!