Associate Director Training Transformation Services

RTX; England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence and aerospace company is seeking an Associate Director for Training Transformation Services, responsible for leading a multi-disciplined team to deliver major training contracts. The role requires strong leadership, strategic planning abilities, and excellent stakeholder engagement, with a focus on innovation and problem-solving in delivering complex projects. Candidates should have a degree in engineering or business management and relevant experience in a regulated environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

25 days holiday plus public holidays

Contributory Pension Scheme

Company bonus scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Enhanced family friendly policies

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in business winning and programme execution.
• Ability to engage with senior military customers.
• Leadership capabilities in a matrix organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team for major training transformational contracts.
• Oversee financial performance and deliver business initiatives.
• Build long-term relationships with industry partners and customers.

Skills

Business winning and programme execution experience

Team player

Senior Customer stakeholder engagement

High Performance Culture behaviours

Leadership and influence

Problem-solving and innovation

Communication skills

Energy and drive

Education

Degree in engineering or business management

Job description

Position

Associate Director (Training Transformation Services)

Location: Raytheon UK, Top Floor Unit 730 Wharfedale Road Winnersh RG41 5TP, United Kingdom. Open to travel across South Coast.

Contract: Permanent full‑time 37 hrs. SC clearance eligibility or currently held.

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. The location can be flexible but there will be a focus on Raytheon’s presence in Reading and across its customer 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.

• 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 industry partners authorities and the wider RTX team
• Identify customer decision‑makers and influencers and 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 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 (dependent on grade / role)
• Private Medical Insurance (dependent 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 focused. 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 180000 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 35000 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 4000 suppliers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We’re investing in all corners of the country supporting 29040 jobs in England, 3040 in Northern Ireland, 1900 in Scotland and 1600 in Wales.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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