Kratos Defense and Security Solutions

Contracts Manager

Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BA/BS degree in Business or Contract Management preferred.
  • 5-7 years of contract management experience or equivalent education.
  • Strong client-centric perspective.
  • Excellent organizational and communication skills (verbal and written).
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
  • Valid driver's license in good standing.
  • Active Security Clearance is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Provide business and technical leadership for quality contract responses.
  • Draft, review, and negotiate contracts and subcontracts.
  • Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory contract requirements.
  • Maintain contract repository and manage contract lifecycles.
  • Monitor and enforce contract compliance and deliverables.
  • Communicate expectations clearly to stakeholders regarding contract objectives.
  • Collaborate with clients on contract scope and deliver progress documentation.

Benefits

  • Work with a leading provider in communication solutions.
  • Engage in a strategic role within the Contracts department.
  • Opportunity for client interaction and external engagements.
  • Involvement with both public and private sector contracts.
  • Support from the management in business development objectives.
Full Job Description
This position requires that you must be a US Citizen for consideration and meet all Federal Contractor employee requirements. Nomad GCS does not support the H1B Visa for this position.

Position: Contracts Manager

Division: Business Integration

Department: Contracts

Status: Full-Time

Overview: Nomad Global Communications Solutions is a leading provider of communication and response products serving a wide variety of customers. Our purpose is to be the solution when every second matters. We seek a candidate that is self-inspired to learn and demonstrates a high degree of customer service while positively contributing to our team. This manager will support DoW including subcontractors. The candidate will communicate on a regular basis and manage all contracts and subcontracts that are awarded.

The Contracts Manager has a strategic role with the primary responsibility of reviewing, analyzing, and responding to contract requests with critical thought and eloquence, while maintaining continuity with the objectives of the contracts department. This includes responding to RFP and other solicitations, managing contract compliance for Department of War (DoW) programs, , and performing external engagements with clients as directed by the Director of Contracts

This role requires strong communication in both written and verbal skills, to coordinate and collaborate with both external clients and internal stakeholders. The Contracts Manager will work closely with clients to define RFP and contractual objectives, creating, and executing contract development objectives. Additionally, the Contracts Manager will assist in managing business development objectives with respect to contract language and written products.

Essential Functions / Responsibility:
  • Provide business and technical leadership necessary to ensure that both contract and legal products meet/exceed goals in delivering quality responses.
  • Draft, review, and negotiate contracts/subcontracts with clients, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
  • Ensure that contracts comply with legal and regulatory requirements.
  • Maintain a contract repository and manage contract lifecycles, including renewals and amendments. Pursue and manage new purchasing contracts.
  • Monitor and enforce contract compliance, including deliverables, milestones, and payment terms.
  • Effectively communicate expectations to stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion. Define success criteria and disseminate to the stakeholders throughout the product life cycle.
  • Continually collaborate and communicate with clients on contract scope and progress. Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations. Plan and prepare for client engagements.
  • Periodically work off company premises for client visits and other business needs.
  • Negotiate payment terms and conditions
  • Support the Sales team in proposal efforts
  • Administer subcontracts from solicitation through closeout
  • Negotiate subcontract terms, pricing, and conditions
  • Issue RFPs/RFQs and evaluate supplier proposals
  • Monitor subcontractor performance and compliance
  • Manage subcontract modifications, funding, and invoicing
  • Resolve disputes and support audits


Basic Knowledge Desired:
  • Understand the significance of the Nomad Core Values and display a demonstrated willingness to apply them.
  • Be knowledgeable of and understand contract management activities, such as FAR, RFP, Commercial contracts, and subcontracts.
  • Understand different contract mechanisms/types

Physical Demands:
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and arms to finger, handle, feel, reach, or operate objects, tools, or controls.
  • The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk, hear, and is occasionally required to sit.
  • The employee must frequently lift and/or carry up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Anything heavier than 50 pounds will require two people to lift / carry.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job including close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to distinguish individual colors.

Working Environment:
  • The work environment is a partially environmentally controlled indoor environment. Depending upon the time of year, temperatures can fluctuate between 60F and 100F but is typically around 70F.
  • The employee may be subjected to noise levels, ranging from low volume to loud and will be required to wear provided safety hearing devices from time to time, which will be provided.
  • The employee will be exposed to a variety of household/commercial chemicals that will require the employee to follow company rules/regulations outlined by that SDS.
  • All Team Members must wear provided OSHA approved eye protection at all times in manufacturing areas. The employee will be required to wear provided safety eyewear throughout the performance of their duties.


Qualifications & Experience:
  • BA / BS degree in Business or Contract Management, strongly desired.
  • 5-7 years of direct work in contract management or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Have a client centric perspective.
  • Must present excellent organizational, communication (verbal and written), interpersonal skills.
  • Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
  • Valid driver's license in good standing.
  • Active Security Clearance is highly desired

About Kratos Defense and Security Solutions

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. provides mission critical products, solutions, and services in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Kratos Government Solutions, Unmanned Systems, and Public Safety & Security. The Kratos Government Solutions segment offers microwave electronic products, satellite communications, training systems, modular systems, and defense and rocket support services. The Unmanned Systems segment provides unmanned aerial, ground, and seaborne, as well as command, control, and communications systems. The Public Safety & Security segment designs, engineers, deploys, operates, integrates, maintains, and operates security and surveillance solutions for homeland security, public safety, critical infrastructure, government, and commercial customers. The company serves national security related agencies, the department of defense, intelligence agencies, and classified agencies, as well as international government agencies and domestic and international commercial customers; and critical infrastructure, power generation, power transport, nuclear energy, financial, IT, healthcare, education, transportation, and petro-chemical industries, as well as government and military customers. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
Learn more about Kratos Defense and Security Solutions
Size
3,300 employees
Market Cap
$1.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$79.6 million
Founded
1994
5 Year Trend
+8.4%
Revenue
$747.6 million
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