Director - Global Supplier Development

Director, Global Supplier Development

Date Posted:

2026-04-09

Country:

India

Location:

IN-KA-BENGALURU-008 ~ Plot No 132 to 167 ~ HI TECH DEFENSE

Position Role Type:

Unspecified

Position Description:

The Director, Global Supplier Development, India Region Lead is a senior leader within the Global Supplier Development (GSD) organization, responsible for the performance, capability, and strategic direction of Indian. This role sets and executes the end-to-end supplier development strategy across the INDIA supply base, aligning commodity performance with Strategic Business Unit (SBU) priorities and enterprise objectives. This role ensures supply base maturity, operational resilience, and value realization across the region.

What You Will Do:                                             

Regional Team Leadership:

• Lead and manage a regional commodity supplier development team in India’s growth market.
• Set and deploy strategy for supplier performance, risk mitigation, and capability advancement across all sites and programs
• Own and oversee Southeast Asia portfolio management including GMRE exposure, product lifecycle status, supplier performance, and spend distribution
• Drive manufacturing process standardization and execution within the supply base, ensuring alignment with technology and operational excellence goals
• Champion product knowledge maturity, value engineering, and cost improvement programs across the commodity supply base
• Implement and sustain part/part family/commodity-level risk identification, FMEA (including DFMEA), and mitigation strategies
• Deploy APQP methodology in partnership with SQ organization to all suppliers in the region with industrialization projects

Strategic Engagement and SBU Partnership:

• Act as the Global Supplier Development sponsor for all impacted Strategic Business Units (SBU), serving as the primary interface between GSD and SBU executive leadership
• Represents the commodity team in senior level forums, ensuring supplier development priorities are aligned with BU goals and strategic initiatives (e.g., profit recovery, BCC transitions)
• Operate as a matched pair with SBU supply chain leadership to collaborate and own goals, drive aligned priorities and resolve escalations
• Provide a data driven, balanced voice of the supply base in GSS & SBU decision-making processes
• Drive SBU KPIs alignment and prioritization across commodity actions to ensure resources and initiatives are focused where most impactful

Enable Transition Project Success:

• Provide leadership and support for supplier transitions, ensuring a smooth handover of work scope with minimal disruption
• Oversee the sustainment phase by monitoring supplier maturity post-transition and ensuring long-term capability
• Ensure SBU alignment with suppliers to reinforce performance expectations and continuous improvement efforts.
• Champion APQP usage and development across the team

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a University Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field and minimum 14 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 12 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 18 years of relevant experience 
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time both in region and globally

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Demonstrated leadership of global teams and success in cross-functional, matrixed environments
• Deep understanding of manufacturing processes, quality systems, and risk management and Quality Process Engineering tools such as flow charts, FMEA, control plans, work instructions, measurement system validation as part of elements of APQP.
• Project Management fundamentals  
• Proven track record in supplier performance improvement, value engineering, cost savings, and profit recovery
• Executive level communication, stakeholder engagement, and influencing capabilities
• Ability to lead through ambiguity and drive accountability across regions and functions
• Experience in regulated or complex manufacturing industries (e.g., aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial systems)

Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

The next chapter of our future as an aerospace company is here, and we are excited about what this means for our employees and customers! Get onboard the Collins Aerospace Operations team and play a part in managing our innovative products from inception to delivery. The Operations team continues to grow and aims to strengthen the connection of Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain and Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) across Collins Aerospace. In this dynamic environment, you will have the opportunity to network across our businesses and functions, all while improving the productivity, quality and efficiency

WE ARE REDEFINING AEROSPACE:

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:

Benefits package includes:

-           Group Term Life Insurance.

-           Group Health Insurance.

-           Group Personal Accident Insurance.

-           Entitled for 18 days of vacation and 12 days of contingency leave annually.

-           Employee scholar programme.

-           Work life balance.

-           National Pension Scheme

-           LTA

-           Fuel & Maintenance /Driver wages

Nothing matters more to Collins Aerospace than our strong ethical and safety commitments. As such, all India positions require a background check, which may include a drug screen.

Note:

• Background check and drug screen required (every external new hire in the India)

• Drug Screen only performed for Operations Positions

At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.

                                                                                                                  

Apply now and be part of the team that’s redefining aerospace, every day.

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Executive Level