Date Posted:
2026-09-08Country:
United States of AmericaLocation:
US-NC-REMOTEPosition Role Type:
RemoteU.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the company’s immigration sponsorship now or in the future. The company will not offer immigration sponsorship for this position. The company will not seek an export authorization for this role.Security Clearance Type:
None/Not RequiredSecurity Clearance Status:
Not RequiredAt RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.
As RTX accelerates transformation and embraces AI-driven change, strengthening our enterprise-wide Change Excellence capabilities is essential to delivering the full value of our strategic initiatives and ensuring long-term organizational agility. We must deliver the human side of change with the same level of rigor, discipline, predictability, and strategic insight that we apply to our programs and projects.
The Director of Change Excellence has the expertise, capabilities, and enterprise leadership muscle to define what world-class change activation looks like at RTX and ensure leaders, change practitioners, transformation teams and select vendors consistently apply high-quality, modern change practices.
This role shapes and executes RTX’s multi-year Change Excellence vision, stewards enterprise standards, and builds enterprise-wide change capabilities. As a strategic advisor and thought leader, the Director partners closely with senior leaders, cross-functional teams, HR Partners and change practitioners to support and drive successful adoption of changes critical for RTX’s sustained growth and competitive advantage.
When successful, the role will:
Improve consistency and quality of change execution.
Increase the success and adoption of important change efforts across the enterprise
What You Will Do
Enterprise Change Excellence Leadership
Own and mature RTX’s multi-year Change Excellence vision, strategy, methodology, tools, services, and processes.
Provide enterprise leadership that strengthens change maturity, ensures consistency, and keeps practices aligned with evolving best practices and internal customer needs.
Advocate for necessary investments in tools, technology, vendor support, and resourcing to ensure RTX can successfully execute highly-complex change efforts.
Influence senior leaders’ decisions, behaviors, and investments using data, storytelling, portfolio insights, and relationships.
Enterprise Consultation and Advisory Services
Develop deep command of RTX’s enterprise transformation portfolio to anticipate interdependencies, risks, and people impacts.
Serve as strategic advisor and subject matter expert to senior executives, HR leaders, cross-functional project teams and vendors. Provide guidance grounded in contemporary change and transformation best practices.
Manage and align external vendors to RTX standards; advise internal customers on vendor selection and project fit.
Capability-Building
Own RTX’s enterprise change capability-building strategy including tools, trainings, resources, and the RTX Change Management site. Ensure global accessibility and continuous improvement.
Strengthen collaboration and alignment across RTX’s cross-functional Change Excellence Team, a distributed network of ~70 change practitioners across RTX.
Change Plan Execution
Lead activation planning and execution for one or more complex change initiatives. Translate priorities into actionable roadmaps, measurable outcomes, risk mitigation, and adoption strategies.
Provide direct leadership to at least one change practitioner.
Qualifications You Must Have
- Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 14 years prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 12 years experience
- Deep change management subject matter expertise - developed through both academic endeavors and a successful track record of practical application (i.e. 6+ years of direct experience in enterprise change management, consulting, or transformation roles)
- Proven experience leading enterprise-level change initiatives in a complex, highly matrixed, global organization (consulting experience applies)
- Experience building enterprise change capabilities, including developing frameworks, tools, training programs, and maturity models that uplift organizational change agility.
- 5+ years of experience leading teams to achieve results, directly or indirectly.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate with senior executives on a regular basis. Proven track-record of navigating large global companies (ideally, Fortune 500 Companies).
- Strong facilitation and consulting skills, with the ability to influence and build trust across senior levels of the organization. Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex change strategies into clear, compelling narratives for broad range of audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into structure, process, and people implications.
- Strong command of portfolio thinking—ability to assess interdependencies, risks, and impacts across simultaneous, multi-year transformations.
- Comfort leveraging data, analytics, and insights to improve change outcomes, measure adoption, and guide strategic decisions.
- Demonstrated success building trust-based partnerships across business units, functions, and project teams to move large and complex work forward.
- High degree of learning agility, with the ability to anticipate future trends, adapt to evolving organizational needs, and challenge the status quo in productive, strategic ways.
Qualifications We Prefer
Experience leading a Change Center of Excellence for a multinational organization
Change management, coaching, and/or org design certifications
Experience working within or in partnership with HR Communities of Expertise and HR Business Partners.
Experience evaluating, selecting, and managing vendors for large-scale transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment to enterprise standards and delivery expectations.
Learn More & Apply Now
Please ensure the role type defined below is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role. This position is classified as:
Remote: Employees who are working in Remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home). If you live within a reasonable commute of an RTX site with other colleagues you interact with, your manager will discuss whether there is a degree of onsite presence associated with this role.
While this position is U.S based, qualified candidates in other locations, including globally, may be considered.
As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process, candidates may be asked to attend select steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations, regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site, hybrid or remote.
The salary range for this role is 186,200 USD - 353,800 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, 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, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.Hired applicants may be eligible for 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. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.
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