Job Summary: Join a growing defense contractor where your work has a direct impact on major development and production programs. In this role, you'll support both direct contracts with the U.S. Government and key subcontract efforts with top defense primes. This is an opportunity to bring your contracting expertise to a team that values sound judgment, collaboration, and clear, practical leadership.
Mercury Systems is seeking a
Senior Contracts Manager to support our Integrated Processing Solutions (IPS) business contract management. This key leadership position requires a deep understanding of both commercial and Department of War contracting practices. It is vital that this individual has the capabilities to work both independently as a strong individual contributor as well as a leader and team player to achieve the best contractual outcomes for our organization. It necessitates excellent leadership and problem-solving skills with a proactive, detail-oriented approach driven to ensure execution of the most complex contractual challenges.
The Senior Contracts Manager will be required to deal effectively with competing priorities and deadlines. This individual will provide expert knowledge to assist business leaders with customer relationships, risk analysis with mitigation strategies, regulations, terms negotiation, and proposal preparation. The successful candidate must possess the ability to work well with others as part of an integrated program team in high-pressure with high-volume situations, effectively interface with internal matrixed organizations as well as meet the goals/objectives of the business.
Job Responsibilities: - Manages Contracts supporting Line of Business
- Leads through the entire contracting lifecycle from solicitation to contract close-out.
- Reviews complex solicitations and prepares specialized/non-routine proposal responses in conjunction with proposal team
- Reviews and approves contractual documents for adherence to customer specifications/requirements, compliance with Terms and Conditions, applicable FAR/DFARS clauses, special provisions and adherence to company policy and procedures
- Drafts, reviews, redlines and negotiates customer agreements, including master agreements, with the objective of protecting the Company's interests
- Advises leadership and program teams on complex contract issues, contractual rights, obligations, intellectual property protections, organization conflicts of interest and general risks and mitigation strategies
- Develops and maintains contracting policies/processes that provide governance of contracting practices as well as provide guidance on contracting terms and conditions
- Maintains deadlines for customer requests; analyzes and tracks contract compliance
- Manages contract data into enterprise systems as required
- Expected to coordinate and support audit activities with Prime, Government or other agencies.
- Interfaces directly with Government contracting officials, prime contractor procurement representatives, interfaces with Contracts team members and other cross-functional teams including Executive Leadership, Legal, Program Management, Capture, Finance, Pricing, Proposal, Property, Quality, Engineering and other functional staff as needed.
Required Qualifications: - Bachelors in business administration, Management or related field
- Ideally 10+ years of directly related experience in Contract Administration/Business Management/Finance role with USG, Prime, International and Commercial contracts.
- Experience with standard defense contract types such as Cost Reimbursable (CR), Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF), Cost Plus Incentive Fee (CPIF), Firm Fixed Price (FFP), Time and Materials (T&M), incentive-type contracts
- Experience in all types of contract vehicles including stand-alone awards, IDIQs, BOAs, and OTAs
- Subject matter expert with US Government regulations (FAR/DFARS) required, with emphasis in acquisitions governed by Part 12 Acquisition of Commercial Products and Services and Part 15 Contracting by Negotiation.
- Provide strong analytical, financial, problem solving and negotiation skills. Must exemplify a strong attention to detail.
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, & Outlook) as well as Adobe Acrobat required.
- This position requires the ability obtain a US Government security clearance. US Citizenship is required
- Travel as needed; estimated at 25%
Preferred Qualifications: - Exceptionally skilled at building effective relationships with internal and external customers to include management, technical and functional counterparts to communicate project status.
- An active DoD Secret Clearance
This position requires you to access information that is subject to U.S. export regulations. You may only access such information if you are a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. government. 
