Facilities Commodity Manager

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry‑leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon.

Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over £2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4,000 suppliers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We’re investing in all corners of the country, supporting 29,040 jobs in England, 3,040 in Northern Ireland, 1,900 in Scotland and 1,600 in Wales.

• Liaising with peers from other functions, functional leadership team and RTX businesses.
• Leading or supporting cross‑functional teams in conducting make‑v‑buy exercises and developing and deploying commodity strategies of medium complexity.
• These strategies include indirect spend commodities, target return on investment (ROI), commodity risk management, service levels, and approved/preferred suppliers.
• Engaging with stakeholder functional leads regarding supplier bid and selection criteria.
• Participates in / leads supplier assessments and supplier development activity teams, including the administration of appropriate due diligence activity.
• Leveraging commodity opportunities and synergies across RTX.
• Ensuring that strategies are in alignment with market conditions, Raytheon requirements, goals and growth plans.
• Leveraging supplier and industry capabilities in conjunction with stakeholder functions to align functional strategies and identify gaps to link supplier capabilities with Raytheon requirements.
• Developing commodity agreements.
• Developing and managing tenders. Performs or supports cost and price analysis, develops negotiation strategies, and leads negotiations to create value for money outcomes for procuring goods and services.
• Produces business cases/briefing materials for management reviews.
• Working with suppliers and functional stakeholders to achieve collaborative partnering, strategic relationship management to deliver required service level KPIs.
• Establishing and managing supplier relationships to include supplier continuous improvement/development goals.
• Executes to customer requirements including government regulations, public law and Raytheon policies and procedures.
• Actively promotes the contributions that the function can make to achieving corporate objectives across the organisation, with stakeholders and with the supply chain.
• Continually assesses and promotes sustainable and responsible procurement, including social, cultural and diversity values in the organisation and throughout the supply chain.
• Utilises project management skills and techniques when managing suppliers.
• Evaluates the challenges faced by the organisation and the supply chains and takes action to mitigate risks and to develop opportunities.
• Responsible via subordinate personnel to place all non‑production requirements on suppliers in an expeditious and efficient manner in line with Raytheon policy and commodity strategies and to ensure the execution of the orders.
• Delegating for the Senior Commodity and Sourcing Manager as appropriate.

• Experience in Supply Chain, Subcontract Management, Procurement, Commodity and/or related field.
• Related degree, MCIPS or equivalent.
• Knowledge of facilities commodity management.
• Experience in writing and negotiating complex non‑standard contracts/agreements including service level requirements.
• Experience of developing and managing supplier relationships and collaborative working.
• Experience in managing stakeholder groups.
• Experience of creating and developing commodity strategies.
• Able to lead or…