SubContract Manager (Aerospace/Aviation)

PEOPLE PROFILERS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

People Profilers Pte. Ltd. seeks an experienced Subcontract/Contract Manager to lead baseline creation, manage flow-down obligations, and ensure alignment with prime contracts.

You will drive risk management, oversee communications with subcontractors, and coordinate with Legal on disputes and amendments. The role requires senior experience in complex industrial environments, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence multi‑cultural teams while protecting the company’s commercial

Qualifications

• Advanced academic background in Law, Contract Management, Business, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Engineering, or related discipline
• 8+ years of experience in Subcontract/Contract Management, Procurement, or Commercial roles in complex international industrial environments
• Ability to manage large, long‑cycle contracts with senior stakeholders
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and synthesis abilities to translate frameworks into guidance
• Proven ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and influence senior stakeholders
• Excellent interpersonal skills to protect the company's position while resolving issues
• Comfort with digital platforms and standard business tools (CLM systems, MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint)
• Willingness to travel occasionally
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Responsibilities

• Establish and manage the subcontract baseline from award to closeout, aligned with the main contract.
• Incorporate flow-down obligations from the prime contract while protecting commercial interests.
• Ensure contractual awareness across project and procurement teams for obligations and terms.
• Anticipate and manage subcontract deviations via notices, change orders, and amendments.
• Identify and drive subcontract risks and opportunities with cross‑functional teams.
• Oversee all contractual communications with subcontractors and suppliers for compliance.
• Coordinate with Legal on disputes, evidence management, and negotiation strategies.
• Monitor compliance with scope, schedule, quality, HSE, insurance, bonds, and reporting.
• Manage subcontract change control including variations and commercial adjustments.
• Oversee closeout activities including final accounts and archiving docs.
• Identify opportunities to improve project financial performance through subcontract management.
• Support tendering by developing terms and evaluating deviations.
• Ensure alignment between prime and subcontracts and back-to-back variations.
• Assess impact of customer changes on subcontract scope and amendments.
• Assist in negotiation of subcontract variations and changes throughout the lifecycle.
• Recommend subcontracting strategies that balance competitiveness and compliance.
• Prepare and present contractual recommendations for internal approval.

Skills

Subcontract management

Contract management

Procurement

Commercial management

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Intercultural communication

Autonomy

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree equivalent

Tools

CLM systems

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Establish, manage, and continuously update the sub contractual baseline from subcontract award to closeout, ensuring alignment with the main contract and project objectives.


• Ensure that all subcontract agreements appropriately incorporate flow-down obligations from the prime contract while protecting the organization's commercial and contractual interests.


• Ensure full contractual awareness across the project and procurement teams, enabling the correct application of subcontract obligations, rights, milestones, deliverables, and commercial terms.


• Proactively anticipate and manage subcontract deviations through notices, change orders, amendments, claims, requests for information (RFIs), waivers, and other contractual mechanisms.


• Identify, assess, and drive subcontract-related risks and opportunities in close collaboration with project, procurement, and commercial teams, including claim preparation, dispute avoidance, cost recovery, and value protection initiatives.


• Oversee all contractual communications with subcontractors and suppliers, ensuring consistency, traceability, compliance, and alignment with project and contractual requirements.


• Coordinate with the Legal and Contract Management teams when subcontract disputes arise, supporting fact-finding, documentation, evidence management, negotiation, and dispute resolution strategies.


• Monitor subcontractor compliance with contractual obligations, including scope, schedule, quality, HSE, insurance, bonds, warranties, and reporting requirements, escalating issues proactively.


• Ensure subcontract change management is effectively administered, including the evaluation, negotiation, documentation, and implementation of variations and commercial adjustments.


• Manage subcontract closeout activities, including final account settlement, resolution of outstanding claims, completion of contractual deliverables, and archiving of contractual documentation.


• Identify opportunities to protect or enhance project financial performance through effective subcontract management, commercial negotiations, and risk allocation.


• Support procurement and project teams during tendering activities by developing contractual terms, evaluating commercial and contractual deviations, and participating in bidder clarifications and negotiations.


• Ensure full contractual alignment between the prime contract and subcontracts by cascading applicable obligations, risks, and entitlements, while managing the back-to-back implementation of contract variations.


• Assess the impact of customer-initiated changes on subcontract scope and commercial terms and ensure corresponding subcontract amendments are negotiated and executed. Likewise, identify subcontractor-initiated changes or claims that may give rise to upstream variations, claims, or relief under the prime contract, ensuring timely notification, recovery, and protection of the project's contractual and financial position.


• Support the preparation, evaluation, and negotiation of subcontract variations, change orders, extensions, and additional work packages throughout the project lifecycle.


• Recommend subcontracting and commercial strategies that optimize competitiveness while ensuring compliance with the prime contract, applicable regulations, and internal governance.


• Prepare and present contractual and commercial recommendations for internal approval, including subcontract award decisions, variation approvals, claim strategies, and risk assessments.

Requirements:

• Advanced academic background in Law, Contract Management, Business, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Engineering, or a related discipline, equivalent to a Bachelor's degree qualification (EU/UK/SG/US or other comparable higher education systems).


• 8+ years of experience in Subcontract Management, Contract Management, Procurement, Commercial Management, or Legal Counsel roles within complex international industrial environments such as aerospace, defence, transportation, infrastructure, energy, EPC, systems integration, or technology sectors.


• Demonstrate capability to manage large, multi‑stakeholder, long‑cycle contracts with both strategic and have the maturity to operate autonomously and proactively with senior internal and external stakeholders


• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and synthesis abilities, with the capacity to translate complex contractual frameworks into actionable guidance


• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary and multi-cultural teams and influence senior and executive stakeholders


• Strong interpersonal skills to resolve issues constructively while protecting the company's position.


• Comfortable working with digital platforms and standard business tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CLM systems, collaborative environments).


• Strong communication skills, intercultural awareness, and the ability to operate within diverse teams.


• May be required to travel from time-to-time.


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