Senior Manager, PWA Non-Product Procurement (Remote)

RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, is seeking a Senior Manager for PWA Non-Product Procurement. This role involves leading a team responsible for internal purchases not tied to the bill of material, managing a yearly spend of $200-500M, and developing strategies to meet business unit goals.

Responsibilities:

• Own all PWA OEM purchasing for non-BOM material
• Requires ability to influence others to accept practices and approaches, and ability to communicate and influence executive leadership
• Provide leadership and direction with emphasis on change management to direct reporting managers and buyers that are both direct reporting and dotted line reporting
• Owns and develops critical strategic and operational goals that have significant impact to the achievement of results (e.g., more than 3 years). Additional focus is on short to medium-term operational plans (e.g., less than 1 year to 1-2 years) to achieve organization results. Work requires a high degree of responsibility for resources and frequently influences business decisions made by executive leadership. Recommends and implements new processes, policies, standards or operating plans in support of strategies
• Ensure that control tower metrics are met; PO placement TAT, quality escapes, CORE metrics, etc
• Establish and execute material planning for each mod ctr to ensure no gaps in production needs working directly with the operations planning team
• Partner with legal, sourcing, and the operation sites to execute long term agreements that meet each site’s respective strategies and goals
• Partner with finance and accounts payable to rectify any payment opportunities, PO funding opportunities, or approval opportunities at a site level
• Communicate to peers and management, the requirements that support processes to ensure smooth production flow
• Support the high visibility projects for both Rare Earth Elements across PWA and our Powdered Metal initiative

Requirements:

• Typically requires: A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 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
• Management and leadership knowledge to lead cross-department project teams or manage across multiple related departments
• Knowledge and comfort with SAP, Ariba, SureSource, ePay, Supplier Network Collaboration (SNC), Spend Intelligence Platform (SIP), Microsoft Office 365 products
• A security clearance due to interactions with Military Engines and various Program Offices