Supplier Development Lead – Midwest

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🌽 Illinois, Iowa, +9 more states – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote 🌾 Iowa – Remote 🌪️ Kansas – Remote 🌾 Nebraska – Remote 🌾 North Dakota – Remote 🏈 Ohio – Remote 🚗 Michigan – Remote ❄️ Minnesota – Remote 🏰 Missouri – Remote 🗿 South Dakota – Remote 🧀 Wisconsin – Remote

💵 $132.4k - $251.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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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

• drive operational excellence and process compliance within the supply base through on site visits and assessments. • help key suppliers in the resolution of significant issues that are likely to have a business-wide impact by working cross functionally with Purchasing, Engineering, Quality and Operations leadership. • coordinate and resolve company/department wide risks/obstacles to ensure manufacturing, supply chain, and delivery schedules are aligned with customer needs. • responsible for reporting key suppliers’ progress to operational initiatives at executive reviews with senior level leadership, both internal and external. • drives improvement of on time delivery and quality performance at multiple suppliers. • develop and drive quality improvement plans. • coordinates root cause identification and corrective actions. • leads onsite assessments with Buyers, Quality, and Engineering teams to drive overall supplier improvement. • identifies and removes significant barriers to the implementation of CI for suppliers to improve on-time delivery and quality. • evaluates key supplier performance and applies sustainable counter measures and actions to facilitate improvement. • directs production readiness assessments for New Product Introduction and rate increases, including capacity confirmation to ensure a timely ramp-up to production volumes with a business wide impact. • oversee the monitoring of critical business wide metrics and the coordination of cross-functional work teams to significantly increase effectiveness of supply chain initiatives. • engages the senior management of key suppliers to initiate appropriate major improvement programs to achieve and sustain high levels of performance. • plans, organizes, directs and reports all activities and matters relating to supplier performance. • evaluates supplier performance, management, capacity and production readiness. • assesses supplier qualifications including training and certifications. • elaborates supplier development plans and works in collaboration with the supplier to ensure best performance is achieved.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Supply chain, Business Management, or related field and 8 years of experience in Operations, Quality, and/or Continuous Improvement roles; or an advanced degree with 5 years of experience. • U.S. Citizen - U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract. • Reside within the Midwest, USA area (IL, IN, IA, KS, MI, MN, MO, NE, ND, OH SD, WI)

🏖️ Benefits

• medical • dental • vision • life insurance • short-term disability • long-term disability • 401(k) match • flexible spending accounts • flexible work schedules • employee assistance program • Employee Scholar Program • parental leave • paid time off • holidays