Associate Director, Digital Product Deployment, Onsite AZ Or TX

Associate Director, Digital Product Deployment – P6

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today's mission and stay ahead of tomorrow's threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.

The Associate Director, Product Deployment is responsible for driving the successful deployment, adoption, and integration of Product Digital Thread (PDT) capabilities across all strategic business units. They will ensure consistency in deployment efforts, track adoption metrics, and provide strategic oversight to ensure alignment with business goals. They will partner with and guide a team of five Strategic Business Unit Champions, ensuring effective adoption management, metric reporting, and engagement with senior leadership, including SBU Presidents. They will also partner with the PDT Capability Leads, OCM, and the PDT Program to drive results. This role will also work closely with and manage the activities of an external vendor / consultant regarding program deployment to leverage industry best practices, strategic insights, and operational expertise in capability deployment and adoption. They are also responsible for driving benefits to programs and achieving the target savings for the Business.

What You Will Do

The Associate Director, Product Deployment will work across the PDT Capability Teams, the SBU Champions, and the OCM team, to drive program deployment, adoption, and integration of PDT capabilities, thus driving benefit to the Business.

Must have ability to travel up to 25% to other US Domestic Raytheon locations as needed.

Program Deployment Leadership:

• Lead the deployment, adoption, and integration efforts for the Raytheon PDT Program
• Develop and execute deployment, adoption, and integration management plans, including capability analysis, stakeholder analysis, communication strategies, and training needs assessments
• Coordination across SBUs:
• Lead a team of five Strategic Business Unit Champions, ensuring effective adoption management, metric reporting, and engagement with senior leadership, including SBU Presidents.
• Strategy & Coordination:
• Develop and execute a structured deployment and adoption roadmap across business units.
• Manage the connection between technical teams, consultants, and business stakeholders to ensure seamless capability deployment, integration and adoption.

Adoption Management & Leadership:

• Drive deployment efforts and adoption strategies tailored to business needs by incorporating industry-leading adoption methodologies and tools.
• Build and manage a network of deployment champions across SBUs to facilitate program adoption and deployment, acting as key points of communication and support.
• Measure and track the progress of program deployment within each SBU, identifying risks and addressing gaps as they arise.

Deployment & Metrics Oversight:

• Develop, define, manage, and implement execution metrics and quantify the business impact of adoption of PDT capabilities to report value capture and ROI metrics.
• Lead activity for data collection, analysis, and corrective action on deployment progress, adoption rates, and business impact.
• Partner with consultant to benchmark adoption performance against industry standards and refine reporting practices.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication:

• Analyze and brief results on deployment, adoption, and integration reports, risks, and success stories in executive forums.
• Conduct assessments to determine deployment, adoption readiness.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience OR an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years of experience (Business, Program Deployment or a related field)
• Experience in Technology business processes and systems of record.
• 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.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• 5+ years of experience leading large-scale transformation and capability deployments within an organization
• Bachelor's Degree in technical or related field
• Experience in PLM, PDM and SAP
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written) at all levels of the organization; ability to communicate complex ideas
• Excellent presentation skills and executive presence
• Ability to easily adapt and be flexible to changing environments
• Ability to manage complex business data and conduct analysis on same
• Strong and effective stakeholder management

What We Offer:

• Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.
• Relocation Eligibility – this role is eligible for relocation as long as the individual is eligible per company policy.

The salary range for this role is 147,000 USD - 295,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, location, education/training, and key skills. Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, 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, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company's performance. This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply. RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act.