Associate Director - HR Focused Program Manager

Position Overview

The RTX Enterprise Services (ES) is seeking a Digital Technologies (DT) Associate Director – Program Manager (PM) to join the ES Applications Value Management Office (VMO).

Responsibilities

• Lead & drive our largest and most complex DT programs, showing up with an entrepreneurial sense of urgency and ownership.
• Serve as the primary point of contact between HR, Finance, Accounting, Technology, and third-party payroll vendor.
• Collaborate closely with HR Business Partners to deliver payroll guidance during reorganizations, M&A, employee transitions, and policy updates and system enhancements.
• Understand and support the Strategic Vision of the organization and ensure strategic alignment as a trusted advisor.
• Foster trust and cultivate a collaborative partnership with digital and functional executive sponsors, ensuring a deep understanding of their strategic priorities & perspectives to drive alignment and shared success.
• Ability to seamlessly navigate the political landscape amongst senior leaders in the function and DT.
• Oversee all the normal PM fundamentals: project schedule, key decisions, resources, financials, requirements, issues, risks, dependencies.
• Drive the program’s delivery cadence and maintain momentum and accountability, blending agile & waterfall techniques as needed.
• Create compelling materials to effectively communicate with senior/executive leaders the value delivery story for the program.
• Efficiently shepherd your programs through our phase-gated project governance framework.
• Maintain the team’s focus on critical cyber, architecture, and compliance artifacts and secure relevant approvals at each gate.
• With grit and tenacity, attack complex issues and challenges for your program.
• You will need to initiate and skillfully navigate tactful executive escalations to drive critical decisions while preserving trust, maintaining relationships, and fostering a constructive path forward.
• In addition to delivering exceptional results on your assigned program, you’ll participate in efforts to continuously enhance and mature our PM services while evolving our value management capabilities.
• Travel ~20% within US.

Qualifications

• Typically a university degree and 12 years prior relevant experience OR an Advanced Degree in related field and minimum 10 years experience OR in absence of a degree, 15+ years of relevant experience is required
• 8+ years experience with program management oversight of DT software development or infrastructure initiatives with 3+ years experience building and managing schedules in MS Project.
• Experience with managing HR and payroll systems such as Workday, ADP, Oracle, or similar platforms.
• Proven experience managing large scale programs involving complex enterprise systems, such as ERP, Payroll, Data Repository, or Engineering systems.
• Demonstrated ability to interface and collaborate with concurrent Enterprise programs, managing dependencies, resources, and schedule.