[Hiring] Avionics Business Readiness Deployment Lead @RTX

Role Description

The Business Readiness Deployment Lead ensures hRC user groups and sites are ready to adopt and sustain new processes and capabilities across multi-wave S/4HANA enterprise deployments. The role provides leadership in readiness strategy, cross-site/function coordination, process governance, cutover integration, scenario oversight, and executive alignment. This role applies established readiness methodology consistently across waves.

This is a REMOTE role at our Cedar Rapids, IA site. Relocation is not available for this role.

What You Will Do:

• User-Group Governance & Decision Authority:
  • Own readiness integrity for assigned user groups across all waves.
  • Approve user-group readiness playbooks and scenario governance.
  • Interpret site-level readiness signals and convert them into recommendations.
• Strategic & Wave Leadership:
  • Translate strategy into actionable multi-wave readiness plans.
  • Identify risks early and coordinate mitigation across sites and functions.
  • Provide executive-level readiness recommendations and drive continuous improvement.
• Operational & Process Fluency:
  • Understand hRC operational realities across manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, and aftermarket.
  • Ensure consistent adoption of global processes and cross-SBU flows.
  • Identify and escalate systemic process gaps or structural design misalignments.
• Readiness Management & Framework Ownership:
  • Lead readiness reviews and validate readiness indicators and scorecards.
  • Ensure consistent adherence to enterprise readiness frameworks, templates, and wave gates.
  • Consolidate site-level insights into wave readiness views and coach sites through gaps.
• Scenario & Validation Oversight:
  • Support coordination of criteria for meaningful “day-in-the-life” scenario testing.
  • Assess scenario outcomes to determine true operational readiness.
  • Identify multi-site patterns requiring cross-user-group mitigation.
• Cutover & Deployment Leadership:
  • Support cutover planning, rehearsals, and stabilization across sites.
  • Identify cross-site/wave critical path dependencies impacting success.
  • Ensure consistent cutover methodology application and readiness for site go-live.
• Change Leadership & Communication:
  • Translate program impacts into clear, role-specific messaging.
  • Enable site leaders to prepare their teams and navigate resistance.
  • Influence across matrixed environments and build strong cross-functional relationships.
• Problem Solving & Adaptability:
  • Diagnose issues quickly and adjust plans without losing momentum.
  • Adapt to evolving requirements and operational constraints in a fast-paced environment.
  • Apply pattern recognition to improve readiness consistency wave-to-wave.
• TRAVEL: Up to 25% travel expected, mostly within the U.S. with some international travel.

Qualifications

• 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 experience.
• 7 years in business readiness, transformation leadership, or enterprise deployment.
• Experience leading multi-site or multi-wave readiness efforts.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and executive alignment skills.
• Requires deep management and leadership knowledge to lead cross-department project teams or manage across multiple related departments.
• Operational knowledge of manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, or AM.
• Proven ability to work effectively across large, matrixed organizations.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the company’s immigration sponsorship now or in the future.

Requirements

• The company will not offer immigration sponsorship for this position.
• The company will not seek an export authorization for this role.

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.
• And More!