Director, Supplier Development - Engineered Items (remote)

RTX is an aerospace and defense company whose Collins Aerospace business provides technologically advanced solutions for the industry. The Director, Supplier Development - Engineered Items leads a global supplier development team, sets commodity strategy, manages supplier performance and risk, and partners with senior business leadership to drive capability, resilience, and value improvement. The role is remote and requires at least 50% travel to supplier sites as needed.

Responsibilities:

• 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:

• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract
• • 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