Supplier Development Program Lead

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – 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

• Own and manage SBU specific supplier development KPIs, including both leading and lagging indicators, to track supplier performance, risk, and maturity • Participate in SBU staff meetings to represent supplier development priorities and communicate strategic alignment • Lead and support SBU tiered meetings, providing clear updates on supplier development efforts, escalations, and impact on critical programs • Engage with Value Stream Leaders (VSLs) and SBU stakeholders to align resource prioritization and supplier strategy to improve supplier performance and development focus • Serve as the focal representative for the SBU regarding supplier quality, delivery, or readiness issues • Act as an escalation point of contact for teams as needed • Act as a functional interface between SBU operations and GSD, ensuring clear handoffs, alignment, and feedback loops • Support SBU based program planning, ensuring supplier capacity and development actions align with SBU execution or NPI ramp up timelines • Engage and align with cross-functional program committees to support integrated supplier development strategies across the business • Facilitate the development of Supplier Development Plans (SDP) executed within the assigned SBU, working closely with GSD and commodity leaders to drive strategic alignment • Drive collaboration across multiple partners (Sourcing, Engineering, Quality, Operations) to drive supplier performance improvements • Ability to support suppliers as needed up to 50% of time

🎯 Requirements

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 10 years 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 their manufacturing processes • Proven history of effective cross-functional program leadership, KPI management, and escalation handling • Strong analytical skills, 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

🏖️ 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!