Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, is seeking a Digital Portfolio Operations Leader. This role is responsible for orchestrating portfolio management and governance, ensuring operational clarity, and driving strategic alignment across various digital initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Own and run weekly, monthly, and quarterly OSCQ DT staff operating rhythms end‑to‑end
- Own all content, templates, materials, and preparation for leadership meetings, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment
- Lead developing content for key leadership forums, enterprise reviews, and executive‑level presentations
- Fully own action and deliverable tracking across leadership forums and ensure timely closure
- Maintain alignment, structure, and readiness across all leadership meetings and key touchpoints
- Lead the transformation, implementation, and adoption of portfolio management and governance processes and tools across OSCQ DT teams and key stakeholders
- Design, standardize, and maintain frameworks for prioritization, intake, decision-making, and value realization
- Influence cross functional teams (DT, ES, Cyber, GRC, OSCQ, Engineering, Business Units) to adopt and operate within a shared portfolio governance model
- Drive continuous reporting that provides real-time insights into progress, risks, decisions, value delivered, capacity demands/gaps, and financials
- Own portfolio issue/risk/decision/action tracking and ensure timely closure
- Consolidate and synthesize strategies, long‑range plans, and roadmaps from across OSCQ DT teams into a unified, executive‑ready OSCQ DT strategy view
- Create and enforce roadmap standards, templates, and norms to ensure consistent, enterprise‑ready artifacts
- Drive visibility into cross‑program dependencies, capacity constraints, and long‑term investment priorities
- Ensure roadmap changes and actions are tracked, transparent, and closed with discipline
- Build high‑quality executive‑level presentations, narratives, and decision materials for Senior Leadership Team and enterprise steering bodies
- Simplify complex program portfolios into concise, outcome‑oriented updates that support executive decision‑making
- Ensure all SLT actions are documented, tracked, communicated, and closed on time.Partner with the Executive Director to prepare for key leadership engagements and represent OSCQ DT priorities
- Lead major initiatives that span across OSCQ DT teams, including culture improvements, training programs, communication enhancements, and execution transparency efforts
- Design and optimize internal operating processes to eliminate friction, increase alignment, and accelerate decision‑making
- Drive consistency in action management, follow‑through, and accountability across all programs and leadership teams
Skills
- Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 14 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 12 years of experience
- 10+ years of experience with meaningful examples of leading portfolio management, project mgmt., consulting, and/or digital transformation
- Experience building and scaling governance models, operating rhythms, and portfolio reporting
- Experience in strategic planning, prioritization, capacity modeling, and action tracking
- Strong executive communication and storytelling capabilities
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders in a complex matrixed environment
- Experience driving organizational change and maturing ways of working
- Experience in manufacturing, aerospace/defense, industrial digitalization, or regulated environments
- Experience building or leading program management teams
- SAFe/Agile, PMP, or similar credentials
Benefits
- 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 and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement
Company Overview
RTX operates as an aerospace and defense company as it solves the hardest problems in aerospace and defense. It was founded in 2020, and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://rtx.com/.