Principal Specialist, Electronics Commodity Management and Sourcing

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RTX Corporation is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 185,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

The following position is to join our RTX Corporate team:

This position is for a commodity role on the Electronics Commodity team. This role will support both the Distribution and Embedded sub-categories. Responsibilities will be to develop an overall strategy for the relevant categories, partnering with internal stakeholders to identify sourcing needs/strategy, aligning with key suppliers, and sending quotes/completing contract negotiations to execute strategy. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develops a strategic plan for a commodity and supply base

• Collaborates with multiple business units to execute Supply Chain strategies

• Owns and responsible for relationship with multiple strategic suppliers

• Evaluates and selects supplier alignment based on price competitiveness, capability, quality, reliability (TCO)

• Analyzes data and information to determine reasonable prices.

• Negotiates and executes long term agreements with supply base that aligns with commodity strategy and internal stakeholders needs

• Leads sourcing process from RFQ to contract signature

• Works with limited oversight from leadership

• Manages several projects at one time with a variety of complexity

• Clearly communicate commodity or project status to leadership

• Ability to identify and pursue VA/VE opportunities through collaboration with internal stakeholders

• Lead change management or work