Procurement Specialist
RTX
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Windsor Locks • Connecticut • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $82,000 - $164,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Support multiple business units within Power & Controls by managing procurement activities that enable on-time delivery to both internal stakeholders and external customers.
- Execute end-to-end procurement processes, including quoting, negotiation preparation, cost analysis, and purchase execution in alignment with established policies and standards.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for order status inquiries, changes, and issue resolution to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction.
- Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Operations, Finance, Programs, and Quality to resolve medium to complex supply chain challenges.
- Identify, mitigate, and escalate supply chain risks to prevent production disruptions or line stops.
- Monitor supplier and contract performance to ensure compliance with commercial, quality, and delivery requirements.
- Manage supplier-led transitions and changes in scope through formal governance and review processes.
- Proactively coordinate with suppliers to schedule, expedite, or recover deliveries impacted by shortages, quality issues, or capacity constraints.
- Own and actively manage assigned supplier relationships, driving accountability, performance, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure materials and services are delivered on time, at the right cost, and to required quality standards.
- Support delivery assurance and recovery activities as needed.
Requirements
- Typically requires a University degree and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience.
- Procurement, buying, or supplier management experience within aerospace, manufacturing, or another highly regulated industry
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
procurementcost analysisnegotiationsupply chain managementsupplier managementcontract performance monitoringdelivery assurancerisk mitigationorder managementcontinuous improvement
Soft skills
customer satisfactioncross-functional collaborationissue resolutionaccountabilityperformance managementcommunicationproblem-solvingorganizational skillsrelationship managementproactive coordination