Associate Director, Strategic Planning & Processes (ONSITE)

Associate Director, Strategic Planning & Processes

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers' toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

We are seeking an Associate Director, Strategic Planning & Processes to orchestrate multi-disciplinary teams from pre-RFP requirements definition through award of contract. This person will lead geographically dispersed proposal resources in sole-source and competitive environments, shaping win strategies, pricing approaches, and capture management to deliver compliant, compelling, and highly competitive offers.

The Associate Director will partner with Program Managers, Prime and Subcontractors, OEMs, and internal stakeholders to develop executable response plans, drive standardized processes (gates, independent and color-team reviews, templates, and schedules), and publish final proposals.

What You Will Do

• Manage and lead multi-disciplinary teams, from pre-RFP requirements definition through award of contract, to include managing support for fact-finding, qualification, RFIs and Proposal Development.
• This leader will manage and lead geographically dispersed Proposal teams associated with responding to Sole Source and when necessary Competitive Proposals. Responsible for leading and overseeing sole source proposal response efforts, including, requirements analysis, win / price strategy and capture / proposal management ensuring compliant, competitive, and compelling offers are submitted.
• Will work with internal stakeholders, Program Managers & Program Management Teams, Prime and Sub-Subcontractors, and OEMs in developing executable response strategies to the PCS customer base.
• Prepare proposal plans, artifacts, and schedules. Ability to generate and implement standardized proposal gates, independent reviews, Color Team reviews, templates, schedules, proposal structure, proposal development and tracking tools, and final proposal publication.
• Provide detailed instructions to proposal writers and bidders to ensure proposal reflects proposal win strategy, appropriately conveys solution elements and is clearly and convincingly written; monitor and implement content / mechanisms that enhance ease of evaluation (compliance matrices)
• Mentor business development, program managers, and engineers on proposal excellence and best practices. Implementation of new RLPM processes.
• Developing Advantageous Response and Pricing Strategies
• Quality Review of all deliverable documentation required using established processes
• Collect and consolidates lessons learned feedback from proposal teams
• Drive a reduction in Proposal Response timeline
• Estimate proposal budgets and drive towards high quality proposals within allocated budgets.
• Control all aspects of proposal development, kick-off meetings, schedules, proposal structures, organize and execute required reviews of strategy and proposal artifacts for bid approval and submittal.
• Liaison with Functional Orgs outside of PCS regarding Proposal Response and Estimating & Pricing.
• Managing & Focusing Workloads and assignments aligned to the Business Pipeline.
• Future utilization of RLPM and ability to assist Programs to implement RLPM to support pre-execution & execution pipeline. Reducing cost to "keep our business" sold, gain market share.
• Travel as required to support business and proposal development bid process as needed. Travel expected to be ~10%.

Qualifications You Must Have

Qualifications We Prefer

What We Offer

Some of our competitive benefits package includes :

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.