Contracts Manager - Level 3

About the role

This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. We are seeking a highly qualified, pivotal people leader to influence and enable the strategic direction of the Mission Enabling Products (MEP) Business Unit (BU) headquartered in Redondo Beach, CA.

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
• 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

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

Qualifications

• 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

Skills

• Demonstrated experience building and developing high-performing teams that achieve success through a strong culture of early engagement, internal collaboration, and critical thinking including cross-functional/cross-organization teams

Benefits

Northrop Grumman offers a comprehensive Total Rewards and benefits package designed to help you thrive at work and in life. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please visit our Total Rewards site.

Pay

Primary Level Salary Range: $159,500.00 - $239,300.00

Schedule

This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.