Contracts Manager - Level 3

About the role

The Contracts Manager – Level 3 position is located in Redondo Beach, CA, with frequent travel to support the Mission Enabling Products (MEP) Business Unit. This role is pivotal in defining the art of the possible from day one, fostering strong stakeholder management, and leading a team of contracts professionals.

Responsibilities

• Drive financial outcomes by demonstrating ownership and leading the team to deliver strong financial performance, and ensuring good business deals
• Create and execute contractual strategies that result in sustainable value creation that deliver measurable results
• Make decisions with speed, offer guidance and work collaboratively with a multitude of organizations
• Achieve top performance through proactive risk and change management
• Evaluate, analyze, integrate, and communicate Pricing, Estimating and Financial impacts, cost issues and risks to senior and executive leadership
• Build and develop high-performing teams that achieve success through a strong culture of early engagement, internal collaboration, and critical thinking including cross-functional/cross-organization teams
• Lead and foster professional development through choreographed training, learning by doing initiatives, coaching and mentoring
• Serve as a role model for inclusion by seeking out and including diverse opinions and perspectives, to include the ability to solve complex problems with new ideas from a variety of sources
• Strategically engage with customers to build strong business relationships, enabling RFP shaping of contractual requirements and successful negotiation outcomes
• Implement coordinated customer engagement plans and create succinct value propositions at the right level
• Provide expert advice to various levels of leadership on topics such as contractual risks, liabilities, innovative contracting solutions and contractual strategy utilizing excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to provide independent opinions

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of professional experience including people management experience – OR – Master’s degree with 6 years of professional experience including people management experience
• No clearance required to start
• 4 or more years of direct management experience
• Contract administration or contract management experience, in Defense or Aerospace industry, managing contracts throughout the acquisition life cycle, including reviewing and approving contractual documents for protection of the company’s contractual posture and adherence to company policy
• Experience with federal government contracting types (Cost Type and Fixed Price) and requirements (i.e FAR/DFAR interpretations)
• Experience with Other Transactions contracting
• Experience with commercial and/or international contracting

Qualifications

• Holds an active Secret and/or Top-Secret clearance at time of application
• Competitive proposal development experience
• Possess excellent problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills

Skills

• Leadership
• People management
• Contractual leadership
• Financial management
• Stakeholder management
• Customer engagement
• Problem-solving
• Communication
• Team building
• Inclusion and diversity
• Contract administration
• Contract management
• Government contracting
• Commercial and international contracting

Benefits

Northrop Grumman offers a comprehensive Total Rewards and benefits package designed to help you thrive at work and in life. This includes health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.

Pay

The primary level salary range for this role is $159,500.00 - $239,300.00. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.

Schedule

This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. It follows a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.