Senior Manager, Commodity Performance Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Oversee supply chain, mission assurance, and engineering teams to enhance supplier performance and ensure compliance with commitments.

• Manage the performance of up to six suppliers, ensuring they achieve contractual and business goals.

• Collaborate across supply chain, mission assurance, engineering, operations, and program management sectors.

• Identify and resolve issues related to contracts, operations, sourcing, and technical aspects concerning suppliers.

• Conduct executive-level reviews and presentations regarding supplier performance and strategic direction.

• Develop and implement supplier strategies that are in alignment with technology roadmaps and capacity ramp-up needs.

• Drive supplier performance, cost-effectiveness, operational excellence, and maximize value for Raytheon.

• Communicate effectively across various organizational levels and functional areas.

• Travel to domestic suppliers as necessary.

⛳️ Requirements

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 10 years of experience in operations, program management, supply chain, or related areas, or a minimum of 7 years of experience with an advanced degree.

• Proven experience in supplier performance management, including developing suppliers and enhancing their performance and affordability.

• Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, refugee, or asylee) or eligible to obtain necessary export authorizations.

• Experience in leading cross-functional teams and interacting with various management levels across supply chain, mission assurance, program management, engineering, operations, and suppliers.

• Experience in delivering executive-level reviews and presentations.

• Demonstrated ability to apply critical thinking throughout the supplier performance lifecycle and oversight process.

• Experience with mechanical and engineered technology commodities.

• Knowledge of constraint management and lean manufacturing principles.

• Familiarity with Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP).

• Certification in Six Sigma process improvement, such as Raytheon Technologies CORE or Raytheon R6s expert.

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

• Understanding of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements.

• A Master’s degree in business or a related field is preferred.

• Security clearance at the Secret or Top Secret level is preferred.

• Willingness to travel up to 25–50% of the time to engage with domestic suppliers.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• 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

• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs (eligibility dependent on position and collective-bargaining coverage)