Senior Manager, Employee Experience

Senior Manager, Employee Experience & Onboarding

At 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.

Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today's mission and stay ahead of tomorrow's threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

The Raytheon Talent team delivers the design and execution of strategic talent solutions. We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Manager to join our Employee Experience & Onboarding team. Our team works cross-functionally to ensure every new hire begins their Raytheon experience feeling informed, connected, supported, and ready to contribute – and carries that throughout their employment journey. Join us to learn, grow, and belong while making the world a safer place.

This individual will directly lead the end-to-end planning, execution, and continuous improvement of key employee experience initiatives at Raytheon. The Employee Experience & Onboarding team sits within the Raytheon Talent COE, which includes Organization & Team Effectiveness, Leader & All Employee Development, Talent Management, Executive Development, and Operational Excellence & Strategy.

The ideal candidate has exceptionally strong program management, stakeholder partnership, strategic thinking, and analytical skills. They thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where expectations are high and priorities shift quickly. They are energized by owning complex cross-functional solutions, building alignment across diverse partners, and delivering a world-class employee experience that reflects Raytheon's culture and activates our mission. This person excels at creating clarity, driving outcomes, and applying data to influence strategy and improvements.

This position will be remote, with up to 25% travel across Raytheon's US sites.

What You Will Do

• Lead the full lifecycle planning and execution of employee experience initiatives, including onboarding programs, site engagement activities and multi-site deployment projects.
• Design, manage and implement process improvements in response to key data metrics and feedback to continuously enhance employee-facing experiences.
• Partner across functions and business leaders to coordinate project activities that align to organizational goals and talent priorities.
• Track, analyze, and report on key experience and engagement KPIs to inform stakeholders and support strategic decision making.
• Oversee the development, standardization and maintenance of program resources, documentation, guidelines and tools.
• Visit sites, conduct focus groups, and connect with employees to understand experience so that their needs are prioritized in our solutions.
• Stay connected with internal and external trends on employee experience, engagement, onboarding and talent retention.
• Partner with Talent COE teams to align workstreams with broader talent management, employee experience and leadership development strategies.
• Leverage continuous improvement methodologies, best practices and benchmarking to advance deployment practices across Raytheon.
• Support enterprise communications related to program updates, deployments and key initiatives.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.

What You Will Learn

This role offers the opportunity to independently own and evolve large-scale employee programs at one of the highest levels within Raytheon HR, including visibility with senior HR and business leadership.

You will gain hands-on experience applying the RTX CORE Operating Model, Tools, and Methods to improve processes and deliver strategic outcomes. You will gain broad exposure to all pillars of the Raytheon Talent COE, deepening your expertise in talent management, employee experience, leadership development, organizational effectiveness and strategic workforce solutions.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a university degree with 10 years of prior relevant experience OR an advanced degree with 8 years of related experience.
• 6+ years of experience owning programs or large-scale initiatives within the HR, Talent Management or Employee Experience fields.
• Experience managing cross-functional stakeholders and delivering strategic, high-visibility programs.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Experience leading multiple programs or projects simultaneously from concept through adoption, tracking deliverables, driving change and achieving strategic goals.
• Strong analytical and data-interpretation skills supporting program measurement, reporting and continuous improvement.
• High learning agility, emotional intelligence, initiative, and resourcefulness; especially in highly ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Ability to leverage tools and technology including the O365 Suite.
• CORE Apprentice and/or Champion Level Certificate, with interest in pursuing advanced CORE training.

What We Offer

• Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.