Global Trade & AECS Strategy Director – Remote

Prattwhitney; East Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 157,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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

Holidays

Annual short-term incentive programs

Annual long-term incentive programs

Job summary

RTX is seeking a Senior Global Trade leader to lead integration of Global Trade into digital enterprise across its global sites. You will translate regulatory requirements into concrete technology and business requirements and collaborate with Digital Technology and senior executives.

This role travels ~10% and shapes governance, controls, and automation for AECS, with experience in SAP GTS, ABAC, and sanctions screening preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and 12+ years of experience in Global Trade, export compliance, trade technology or related roles, including experience with export control and sanctions regulations.
• US Person - This job requires a U.S. Person. A U.S. Person is a lawful permanent resident as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) or who is a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3). U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents, or individuals granted refugee or asylee status in the U.S. are considered U.S. persons.

Responsibilities

• Lead the integration of Global Trade into the digital enterprise, ensuring GT requirements are embedded early in digital strategies, projects, applications and technology solutions rather than addressed after the fact for Pratt & Whitney and all its global sites.
• Serve as a senior Global Trade advisor across Digital Technology and business transformation initiatives, with at least general substantive knowledge across: Jurisdiction and Classification Authorizations and Licensing Tangible Transfers – Import and Export Intangible Transfers Sanctions and Screening
• Translate Global Trade requirements into clear business and technology requirements, and confidently explain, defend and challenge those requirements with Global Trade, Digital Technology, business leaders, project teams and senior executives.
• Assess and challenge technology and business initiatives where project priorities, Global Trade requirements, compliance risk or business objectives are not aligned; develop clear recommendations and drive issues to resolution.
• Lead the evolution of the Automated Export Control System (AECS) value stream, defining future-state capabilities and advancing scalable approaches to automation, data-driven controls and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC).
• Establish the Global Trade governance and engagement model for technology initiatives, ensuring GT is involved at the appropriate point in the project lifecycle and that requirements are incorporated into architecture, processes, systems of record and controls.
• Assess and strengthen the Global Trade control environment across digital tools and processes, identifying capability gaps, emerging risks and opportunities to improve automation, scalability and operational efficiency.
• Influence enterprise and corporate Global Trade initiatives, ensuring business requirements and risks are understood while supporting alignment with broader enterprise strategies and standards.
• Provide strategic leadership and visibility across the portfolio, bringing clarity to complex issues, surfacing risks and dependencies, and enabling senior leaders to make informed decisions.
• Build strong relationships and lead through influence across Global Trade, Digital Technology and the business, removing barriers and driving alignment in a highly matrixed, global organization.
• Challenge the status quo and proactively identify opportunities to improve how Global Trade compliance is delivered through technology, processes and data.
• Must be able to travel between company sites in support of project needs. Travel approximately 10% of the time.

Skills

Global Trade

Export compliance

Stakeholder management

Regulatory knowledge

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Advanced degree

Tools

SAP/SAP GTS

ABAC

Sanctions screening

Identity and access management

Data governance

Job description

RTX is seeking a Senior Global Trade leader to lead integration of Global Trade into digital enterprise across its global sites. You will translate regulatory requirements into concrete technology and business requirements and collaborate with Digital Technology and senior executives.

This role travels ~10% and shapes governance, controls, and automation for AECS, with experience in SAP GTS, ABAC, and sanctions screening preferred.