Job Description
About Teledyne FLIR Defense
Join Teledyne FLIR Defense, where we're dedicated to supporting critical missions with an exciting range of cutting-edge technologies. Our products include advanced surveillance sensors, unmanned air and ground vehicles, sensing devices used to detect chemicals, biological agents, radiation and explosives, and a host of other solutions that help warfighters, first responders, and search-and-rescue teams do their jobs better.
We're looking for passionate innovators eager to shape the future of the Defense and Public Safety industries. If you’re mission-driven to globally collaborate on solutions that can change the battlefield and save lives, we invite you to explore our current opportunities.
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Job Summary:
The Supply Chain Contracts Manager responsible for drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and managing supplier agreements and commercial terms that support the company’s supply chain and procurement operations. This role partners closely with Strategic Sourcing, Legal, Finance, and Operations to ensure contracts effectively balance cost, risk, compliance, and operational requirements. This position plays a critical role in strengthening supplier relationships, reducing contractual risk, and enabling consistent, enterprise-wide contracting standards across direct materials, indirect spend, and service agreements.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
- Contract Development and Negotiation: Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of supply chain agreements, including: Master Supply Agreements (MSAs), Long-Term Agreements (LTAs), Purchase Terms & Conditions, Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) and Statements of Work (SOWs). Lead negotiations of commercial terms including pricing structures, lead times, payment terms, liability, warranties, indemnification, and service levels. Partner with Strategic Sourcing and Commodity Managers to align contract terms with sourcing strategies and business objectives.
- Commercial Terms and Negotiation: Lead negotiation of key commercial terms, including: pricing models and escalation clauses; lead times and delivery obligations; payment terms and working capital optimization and warranty, liability, and indemnification provisions. Establish acceptable fallback positions and risk thresholds in partnership with Legal and leadership. Support Strategic Sourcing Managers in complex supplier negotiations and contracting strategies
- Flow Down Requirements and Compliance: Ensure all required contractual flow-down provisions are incorporated into supplier agreements, including customer and prime contract requirements, regulatory obligations (e.g., ITAR, EAR), quality, cybersecurity, and ESG requirements
- Risk Management and Compliance: Identify and mitigate contractual, financial, and operational risks within supplier agreements. Ensure compliance with corporate policies, regulatory requirements, and export control laws. Maintain standardized contract templates and fallback positions
- Supplier and Team Collaboration: Serve as a key advisor to Supply Chain, Procurement, and business stakeholders on contract terms and negotiation strategy. Support supplier relationship management by establishing clear, enforceable agreements. Interface with suppliers to resolve contract disputes and ensure adherence to terms
- Process Improvement and Governance: Support the development and implementation of standard contracting processes and best practices, Drive consistency in contract language and commercial terms across categories and business units. Maintain contract repository and ensure accurate documentation and version control. Support internal and external audits related to supplier agreements and compliance
- Financial, Sales and Operations Interface: Work closely with Sales Operations to ensure customer and government flow down requirements are implemented within the supply chain. Collaborate with Finance and Procurement to optimize payment terms, cost structures, and working capital outcomes. Ensure contracts align with cost savings initiatives and value capture objectives. Provide input on total cost of ownership (TCO) and commercial models
Job Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Legal, Finance, or a related field. (An MBA or Master’s degree highly preferred).
- Experience: 5-7+ years of progressive experience in contracts management, procurement or supply chain roles.
- Negotiations and Contract Management: Proven experience in drafting and negotiating supplier agreements and in leading complex vendor negotiation and managing contracts. Strong understanding of commercial contract terms. Experience in supporting strategic sourcing and commodity management teams.
- Travel: Ability to travel up to 25% as needed.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in aerospace, defense, electronics or other regulated industries
- Knowledge of export control regulations (ITAR, EAR) and government contract flow-down requirements
- Experience with ERP systems (SAP) and Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools
- Professional certification (e.g., CPCM, NCMA, CPSM, CSCP)
- Experience building contract templates and enterprise contracting frameworks
Core Competencies:
- Excellent negotiation, analytical skills and risk based decision making
- Strong and cross-functional communications skills.
- Strong business acumen with an entrepreneurial mentality.
- Exceptional conflict resolution, critical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities
- Attention to detail and contract precision
Applicants must be either a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, legal permanent resident, asylee, refugee or must be eligible to apply for and obtain the appropriate export control license from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce.
Salary Range:
$92,300.00-$123,000.000
The anticipated salary range listed for this role is only an estimate. Actual compensation for successful candidates is carefully determined based on several factors including, but not limited to, location, local regulations (such as minimum wage), education/training, work experience, key skills, and type of position.
Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.
