Job Description

Date Posted: 2025-10-21
Country: United Kingdom
Location: GBRBRC112: Raytheon UK Top Floor, Unit 730 Wharfedale Road, Winnersh, RG41 5TP, United Kingdom
Position Role Type: Unspecified
Associate Director (Training Transformation Services)
Open to location, travel across South Coast
SC clearance eligibility or currently held
Permanent, fulltime 37 hrs
Our business
As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers' toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.
The role
This high-profile leadership role will be responsible for leading a multi-disciplined, company-wide team to capture and then execute delivery of major, training transformational contracts in the UK and Internationally. This is a P&L leadership role with expected revenue in 2025 of in excess of $100m, projecting to grow significantly in the Long-Range Plan.
The Mission Area Lead must be able to work at all levels within Raytheon UK, Raytheon Company based in the USA, partner companies and the military customer organisation by engaging with key stakeholders (internal and external) and identifying and addressing their collective needs. A strong innovative and commercially aware approach will be critical to delivering success. Work location can be flexible, but there will be a focus on Raytheon's presence in Reading and across its customers facilities which are located throughout the UK.
Candidate Requirements:
Essential:

• Relevant, recent, demonstrable experience of successful business winning and programme execution in a highly regulated and/or controlled environment,

• Proven ability as a team player who works well with others and build lasting, constructive relationships both with the customer and inside the business

• Demonstrable experience of senior Customer stakeholder engagement specifically with military customers

• Demonstrate role model High Performance Culture behaviours

• A capable leader and influencer, able to effect change through the matrix organisation, even where direct hierarchical control does not exist

• Supportive, with the character to anticipate and navigate sensitive and pressurised situations to overcome delivery challenges

• Able to engage with technical experts with credibility and understanding

• Drive to create change and continuously improve performance

• Creative and open to innovation in order to solve complex problems

• An able communicator in verbal, written and presentational forms including at board level and especially to the customer

• Energy and Drive - willing to travel extensively within the UK and internationally

Desirable:

• Degree in engineering or business management

• A thorough understanding of the customer (Raytheon US, UK MoD, Foreign Governments and Military) and a background in Defence.

• Member of a relevant Engineering or Programme Management Professional Institution.

• Experience of working in different country cultures with an ability to establish and nurture customer relationships.

Responsibilities
This is a complex and challenging role that is both highly rewarding and high profile, with extensive communication and interfacing requirements with UK MoD and other customer and partner organisations. It demands excellent interpersonal skills and high levels of energy and stamina.
The role holder shall be required to:

• Spearhead the use of RTX CORE operating system to develop and maintain an inclusive, agile and innovation led culture in Raytheon UK's TTS Mission Area

• Oversee the financial performance of the TTS Mission Area, plan and deliver investments and other business ventures and synergies.

• Develop and execute Raytheon UK's TTS Mission Area strategy.

• Lead, inspire and motivate the TTS Mission Area team and implement business plans, growing the TTS Mission Area to agreed targets and commitments.

• Deliver TTS Mission Area programmes within agreed budgets using Earned Value and other KPI techniques, delivering each contracted milestone to agreed performance, cost and schedule commitment.

• Build long term, trusting relationships with the TTS team, industry, partners, authorities and the wider RTX team.

• Identify customer decision-makers and influencers, their interrelationships and their mission requirements to ensure that solutions are accurate, focused, planned and well executed.

• Facilitate complex problem-solving initiatives with technical competence and the ability to think through strategic solutions from the customers', company's and partners' perspectives.

• Provide strategic advice to the Raytheon UK Senior Leadership Team on the TTS domain.

• Deliver public speaking and representational appearances at RTX conferences and company town halls.

• Identify and leverage customer decision-makers and influencers and their interrelationships throughout the capture process to assure capture is properly customer focused, planned and executed.

• Work as a key and active member of the Mission Area team, collaborating across the Missions and Functions to achieve overall business goals and objectives and contributing to both short and long-term business planning and forecasting.

Benefits and Work Culture
Benefits

• Competitive salaries.
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
• 6 times salary 'Life Assurance' with pension.
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others.
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.
• Car / Car allowance (dependant on grade/ role)
• Private Medical Insurance (dependant on grade)

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• A grownup flexible working culture that is output, not time spent at desk, focussed. More formal flexible working arrangements can also be requested and assessed subject to the role. Please enquire or highlight any request to our Talent Acquisition team to explore the flexible working possibilities.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

RTX
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.
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