RTX

Associate Director, Space Payloads Capture Management

RTX

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $147,000 - $295,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

TypeScript

About the role

  • Report to the Mission Solutions & Payloads (MSP) Director of Capture Management
  • Develop and lead new business captures for space payloads, building the teams, developing win strategies, guiding solutioning (technical and programmatic), leading gate reviews, and ensuring delivery of competitive bids
  • Manage staffing and financial resources through proposals and capture activities, including staffing, new business funds, and coordination with internal IRAD/CAPEX investments
  • Ensure synchronized communications, status reporting, and coordination across multiple levels of the Raytheon business
  • Engage with customers and industry partners to understand architectures, requirements, acquisition plans, budgets, and key stakeholders to ensure offered solutions are compliant and discriminating
  • Drive cross-functional collaboration with internal organizations and stakeholders (e.g., program managers, chief engineers, and finance) to ensure high-quality inputs and releasable products are developed to support the capture
  • Create and deliver presentations and white papers to key customers and stakeholders in support of shaping strategies and broader capture plans
  • Support MSP Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and Long-Range Planning (LRP) activities associated with key pursuits, investments, and strategy
  • Work across a mixture of unclassified and classified pursuits
  • Collaborate with RTX Global Government Relations (GGR) at the Federal, State/Local level on Public Policy in their advocation and development of new technologies and our solutions
  • Travel domestically approximately 50 to 75%

Requirements

  • Typically requires a University Degree and a minimum of 12 years’ experience in the space industry in either technical or programmatic roles, or an Advanced Degree and a minimum of 10 years’ experience
  • 3+ years as capture manager with USG (DoD, IC, Civil) customers pursuing contracts with values of at least $50M
  • Experience leading teams in accomplishing project objectives within budget and schedule constraints
  • Experience developing and delivering white papers, proposal elements, and executive-level briefings
  • Experience with USG acquisition and planning/programming processes
  • Experience interfacing with USSF, IC, and/or NASA/NOAA customers
  • Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date
  • U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
  • Security Clearance: TS/SCI - Current
  • Travel: Approximately 50 to 75%
  • Required to reside and work from one of the 50 U.S. states (excluding U.S. territories)
  • (Preferred) Master’s Degree or higher in an Engineering or Business discipline
  • (Preferred) 15+ years of work experience in the space industry with at least 5+ years of capture and proposal experience with USG, commercial, and/or international customers pursuing contracts with values of at least $200M
  • (Preferred) Prior experience developing space payloads or key elements of space missions (e.g., spacecraft)
  • (Preferred) Direct space acquisition experience within the USG or National Labs (e.g., FFRDC or UARC)
Benefits
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • 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 (payments not guaranteed)

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
capture managementproposal developmentproject managementbudget managementwhite paper writingexecutive-level briefingsspace payload developmentUSG acquisition processesprogrammatic rolestechnical roles
Soft skills
leadershipcross-functional collaborationcommunicationstrategic thinkingteam buildingcustomer engagementstatus reportingsynchronized communicationsproblem-solvingpresentation skills
Certifications
U.S. government issued security clearanceTS/SCI security clearance