Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, May 2026 – RTX has announced the appointment of Lauren Larson as Executive Director, HR, RTX Enabling Functions and Employee Partner Lead. In her new role, Lauren will lead HR for several critical enterprise functions including Legal, Contracts & Compliance, Corporate Strategy & Development, Global Government Relations, and Global Communications & Corporate Affairs, while also serving as the focal point for domestic and international Corporate HR Employee Partners.
Reflecting on her transition, Lauren shared appreciation for her experience within Collins Aerospace, highlighting the partnership, leadership, and culture she experienced while supporting Interiors Aftermarket, Specialty Products, and Operations. She also expressed enthusiasm about collaborating with new leaders and teams across RTX on strategic initiatives that support the company’s mission and long-term transformation agenda.
Prior to assuming her new enterprise leadership role at RTX, Lauren Larson held several senior HR leadership positions with Collins Aerospace over more than four years. Most recently, she served as Senior Director, HR Business Partner – Global Aftermarket & Operations, supporting a rapidly growing global aftermarket portfolio with operations spanning multiple countries, customers, and locations.
Earlier, she served as Global Human Resources Director, where she led HR strategy for a global aftermarket business with significant year-over-year growth, overseeing a large international workforce and HR leadership team. Her responsibilities included workforce transformation, operational support, leadership effectiveness, and organizational capability building.
Lauren also held the role of Director, Human Resources, where she focused on designing transformative employee experiences, workforce insights, learning initiatives, and organizational transition support. During this phase, she played a key role in enabling agile HR transformation and strategic workforce planning initiatives.
Before this, Lauren was deeply involved in major enterprise transformation initiatives at Raytheon Technologies, where she served as Director, Human Resources. She led HR integration efforts during the landmark merger of United Technologies and Raytheon, overseeing harmonization of systems, programs, operating models, contracts, and change management activities across the enterprise.
She also led critical HR separation and integration activities related to the spin-offs of Otis and Carrier, supporting organizational design, governance, systems separation, workforce transition, and enterprise HR operating model development at a global scale.
Earlier in her career, Lauren spent over seven years with Collins Aerospace and predecessor organizations in progressive HR business partnering and labor relations roles supporting functions such as M&A, Strategy, Finance, Aftermarket Operations, and Space Systems.
Her professional journey also includes earlier commercial and operations experience with organizations such as Norwich Bulletin and Ruby Tuesday.
RTX is a global aerospace and defense leader comprised of three major businesses — Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. The organization delivers advanced technologies and solutions across commercial aerospace, defense systems, and propulsion technologies.
With a strong focus on innovation, engineering excellence, and mission-critical solutions, RTX continues to address some of the most complex challenges across aerospace, defense, and national security sectors worldwide.
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