Director and Associate General Counsel, Global Operations and Deployment

Date Posted:

2024-10-30

Country:

United States of America

Location:

VA108: 1100 Wilson Blvd, Arlington 1100 Wilson Boulevard , Arlington, VA, 22209 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring 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. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.

Raytheon Legal Contracts and Compliance (LCC) is seeking an experienced corporate business lawyer with a broad background in international operations, transactions, governance, cross-border assignments, and compliance.  Reporting to the Raytheon Senior Director and Deputy General Counsel – Strategy and International, this position will serve as Raytheon’s legal lead for supporting Raytheon’s global operations and deployment activities.

Raytheon is a business unit of RTX, the world’s largest aerospace and defense company.  Operating through its three industry-leading businesses (Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney and Raytheon) and with more than 185,000 global employees, RTX is advancing aviation, engineering integrated defense systems for operational success, and developing next-generation technology solutions and manufacturing to help global customers address their most critical challenges.  At Raytheon, a company with $26.3B in net sales (2023), 53,000 employees and work in 58 countries, we bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience to solve tough problems that create a safer, more secure world.  Key customers include the U.S. and international governments, across multiple departments and agencies, as well as commercial enterprises.  If you enjoy a fast-paced work environment with ever-evolving challenges, customers, and partners and you consider yourself a strong leader and collaborative problem solver, then you just might be the candidate we are seeking!

This position will be located in one of Raytheon’s main office locations, with a preference for candidates with proximity to Dulles, VA, or Rosslyn/Arlington, VA additional viable locations are listed within the posting details. 

The successful candidate will be capable of positively influencing a broad range of complex international legal, operational, transactional, regulatory, compliance, policy and business issues.  The position will work closely with other Raytheon LCC, RTX business unit and corporate LCC colleagues, and business partners in many parts of the organization including colleagues in contracts, human resources/immigration, finance/tax, security, facilities, real estate, corporate governance, global ethics and compliance, global trade, Raytheon’s internationally operating businesses, and Raytheon’s domestically operating business that sell products and services internationally. The preferred candidate will have substantial legal experience advising on global operations, governance issues, cross-border deployments, legal and regulatory compliance issues, and transactions, and experience guiding businesses to address new legal and regulatory requirements, business challenges and global growth. 

What You Will Do: 

• Supporting the execution of Raytheon’s international business objectives and contract execution by enabling and ensuring the compliant legal operationalization of Raytheon legal entities and branch offices, and deployment of personnel around the world.
• Serving as the Chair for Raytheon’s Legal Entity Committee (LEC), a cross-functional network of professionals who support Raytheon’s critical international business needs with legal entity and resource deployment solutions.  Lead in evaluating the vast array of legal requirements to develop strategies and solutions aimed at compliant legal entity utilization and employee deployments.  These efforts will include driving process improvements that ensure mistake-proofing, repeatability, and efficiency of these solutions.     
• Advising on the legal aspects of government-to-government agreements (i.e., treaties, status of forces agreements, defense cooperation agreements, etc.) as they relate to Raytheon’s global operations and deployment.
• Collaborating with the Raytheon Governance team, the Raytheon International Legal team, and RTX Tax, among other subject matter experts, to align on and facilitate the operational activities required to enable new and existing in-country legal entity compliance and operationalization.
• Assisting with and counseling on a broad spectrum of operational matters at dozens of existing non-U.S. legal entities, branch offices and wi