Program Manager - Military Ground Vehicles (m/f/d),

Prattwhitney; Ratingen; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Special payments & leave days

Canteen subsidy

30 days of paid vacation

Global career opportunities

Employee scholar program

Zusammenfassung

Collins Aerospace in Ratingen seeks a senior program leader to direct sustainment programs across development, production and support. You will coordinate cross-functional teams with engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, finance and contracts to ensure on-time, on-budget execution.

You will interact with customers, prepare proposals, negotiate with partners, and manage risk, cost, and schedule. German and English fluency is required, with a strong leadership and communication track

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Program management or leadership experience in complex programmes.
• Experience with sustainment programs and multi-stakeholder reviews.
• Fluent in German and English (written and spoken).
• Strong leadership and communication skills in cross-functional settings.

Aufgaben

• Understand and represent customer needs to leadership while maintaining relationships with customers and key suppliers.
• Accountability for profit and loss, program execution, and risk management.
• Set program priorities and support reviews with leadership and customers.
• Provide leadership to a cross-functional team across engineering, operations, QA, supply chain, finance, and contracts.
• Lead proposals, negotiations, and travel as required.

Kenntnisse

Fluent German

Fluent English

Program management

Leadership

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree or Advanced degree in related field

Jobbeschreibung

Date Posted: 2026-09-18 Country: Germany Location: DE-NW-RATINGEN-115 ~ Kaiserwerther Strasse 115 ~ QUATTRIUM Position Role Type: Unspecified

About Collins Aerospace

At Collins Aerospace, we work closely with our customers to solve some of the most challenging issues in the aerospace and defense industries. We combine creativity with a broad range of products, capabilities, and expertise, always with a strong focus on our customers. By developing smart solutions and using the latest technologies and innovations, we help our customers meet the needs of a rapidly changing global market. At Kidde Deugra Brandschutzsysteme GmbH, based in Ratingen near Düsseldorf, our mission as part of Collins Aerospace is to protect lives through innovative fire protection and fire suppression systems. We develop and manufacture automatic smoke detectors, fire warning systems, and fire suppression systems for a wide range of military and civil vehicles. As experts and innovators in this field, we continuously develop our products and capabilities to meet changing market requirements and support future growth. This role calls for a leader eager to operate within a fast-moving, evolving portfolio that encompasses all program phases from development through production and sustainment. You will be leading a sustainment program where you will be responsible to direct interaction with the customer and other external entities, proposal preparation and negotiations, and internal cross-functional leadership. In addition, you will provide support to other development and production programs. You will lead through strong cross-functional engagement, partnering closely with Engineering, Operations, Quality Assurance, Supply Chain, Finance, and Contracts to execute programs with rigor. Managing financial performance, including cost, schedule, and margin is essential, along with organic growth through the assigned programs.

Responsibilities

• Understand and represent customer needs to leadership while building and maintaining excellent relationships with customers and key suppliers
• Accountability for profit and loss, and program execution including risk and opportunity, cost, quality, and schedule performance
• Set program priorities, resolve conflicts and barriers, support internal and external reviews with leadership and the customer(s)
• Provide leadership and direction to a cross functional team
• Identifies and reacts to problems and supports solutions, such as allocation of resources and operational execution
• Manage and grow the customer relationship and ensure customer satisfaction
• Lead proposal and negotiation activities with domestic customers, industry partners and suppliers
• Expected to support domestic & international travel as needed

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced degree in a related field and minimum 7 years' experience
• Program management or leadership experience
• Experience working sustainment program
• Experience with reporting metrics through customer Program Management Reviews
• Experience managing proposals, negotiations
• Fluent German and English language skills
• Solution-oriented and independent working method
• Strong leadership and communication skills

What We Offer You

• Special payments & leave days
• Corporate & seasonal benefits
• Work-life balance
• Flexible working hours
• 30 days of paid vacation
• Canteen subsidy
• Job bike
• Corporate fitness membership (FitX)
• Global career opportunities
• Employee scholar program
• English language trainings
• Internal and external trainings

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses - Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.