Buyer/Procurement

Responsibilities:

• Prepares Requests for Proposals (RFQ) to comply with all technical, quality, delivery, and contractual requirements.
• Analyze supplier quotes and proposals.
• Creates and authorizes purchase orders and approves payments to ensure the procurement process goes smoothly.
• Drives on-time deliveries on all shipments.
• Manages supplier performance to cost, delivery, quality, technical and programmatic/contractual requirements.
• Required to manage a high volume of material orders.
• Collaborates with leadership and stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment and to deliver resolution to complex supplier issues and drive systemic lessons learned.
• Performs other duties as required.

Requirements:

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future. RTX will not offer sponsorship for this position.
• Experience with Enterprise Planning Resource (ERP) and/or Material Requirements Planning (MRP) software, specifically SAP.
• Experience with Procurement, Operation, Logistics, or Inventory Management.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Distributed products procurement experience.
• Experience developing relationships with Customer(s) and vendors.
• Excellent problem- solving and negotiating skills.
• Skilled at working independently, as well as in a team environment.
• Experience performing in a dynamic, fast paced, changing environment.
• Experience in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Education:

• 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 or in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience.