Contracts Manager

About the role

Combat Mission Systems (CMS) focuses on the development, production and integration of systems to provide advanced solutions across ground, amphibious and maritime platforms to meet our customers' mission requirements. The Contracts organization within CMS is the trusted business partner managing customer relationships, negotiating deals, creating innovative solutions, and providing regulatory knowledge to our customers. We are committed to employee growth and development, allowing employees to build a long-term career at BAE Systems. We are currently looking for an experienced, Contracts Manager to assume a role on our Sustainment and International team. This Contracts Manager position will support a wide variety of products and customers in the growth of new domestic and international pursuits as well as managing existing domestic and international business. You will work with other exceptional professionals across many functions and business areas. At BAE Systems, we value our workforce, and that means providing our employees with competitive salary and benefit packages, flexible schedule, and plenty of resources for career growth.

Responsibilities

• Consistently work on and provide guidance on complex, domestic and international assignments requiring independent action and a high degree of initiative to resolve issues as well as an understanding of and compliance with company policies and procedures;
• Interact with other functions to gather, interpret, analyze, and develop recommended strategies and present information on assigned contracts;
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge and working understanding of domestic and international contracting trends and information, US Department of Defense Acquisition and Procurement environment, the BAE Systems Contracts function and relevant company policies and procedures, Defense contracting methods and export;
• Independently lead and support proposal activities including, but not limited to: analyzing solicitations, preparing summaries and developing strategies and recommendations based on the analysis, with attention to the financial and business risk of the proposed effort, participating in all proposal team meetings, preparing the terms, conditions and assumptions upon which the proposal may be submitted,