Contract Performance Manager - Aerospace

Full Circle Co; Ohio; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Contract Performance Manager to enhance profitability through effective contract management and supplier relationships. This role offers the opportunity to lead cross-functional teams, negotiate complex deals, and drive operational excellence. With a focus on maximizing contract productivity and ensuring supplier accountability, you will play a crucial role in shaping the company's success. This dynamic position allows for remote work, providing flexibility while you make a significant impact on the organization. If you're a strategic thinker with strong leadership skills, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in relevant roles.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university.

Responsibilities

• Maximize contract performance while maintaining supplier relationships.
• Lead negotiations and manage supplier performance.

Skills

Supplier Relationship Management

Negotiation Skills

Commercial Operations

Contract Management

Problem Solving

Leadership Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Job Description Summary

As a Contract Performance Manager, you will have a major impact on our organizations' profitability through owning overall contract performance, inclusive of total cost of ownership via safety, quality, on time delivery, unit price, and supplier relationship management.

This role is responsible for ownership of contract productivity and overall supplier accountability in the Global Machine & Fabrications Commodity. In this role, you will create and lead operational rhythms with internal and external stakeholders to drive mutually successful outcomes for our company and its partners. You will provide the necessary support on pre- and post-contractual administration & management, terms & conditions (T&Cs) of the contract, and the management of claims.

This role is responsible for ownership of contract productivity and overall supplier accountability. The role requires cross-functional leadership capability and has autonomy within your respective supply base. The role has an impact on overall company profitability. High levels of evaluative judgment and operational acumen are required to achieve outcomes.

This role is eligible for remote work - preference is in EST or on the West Coast near major suppliers.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

This role sits within the Global Machine & Fabrications Commodity.

• Responsible for maximizing contract performance, while maintaining supplier relationships
• Ownership for the productivity of assigned contracts through cost reduction, cost avoidance, income generation, and working capital savings
• Owns management of existing contracts to measure performance of contractual T&Cs against expectations (i.e. bid vs did process), identify gaps or opportunities, and manage cross functional team actions (i.e. cost recovery, terminations, productivity clauses, premiums, etc.) to maximize contractual productivity and performance
• Accountable for supplier performance inclusive of safety, compliance, quality, delivery, commercial, readiness and all elements within these areas (i.e. WIP Health, commits, payables, tooling, etc.)
• Where supplier performance does not meet expectations, responsible to drive cross functional problem solving and structured action plans for improvement
• Leads cross functional teams to manage supplier relationships
• Acts as chief negotiator in significant deals. And leads negotiations among the working team including, but not limited to sourcing colleagues, legal, finance, compliance, engineering, quality, manufacturing operations, product lines, customers, and suppliers
• Leads and is accountable for business approvals, supply award, and contract authoring
• Owns supplier relationships by driving business reviews on a regular cadence, with the responsibility to escalation frequency & attendance as defined by standard work
• Assure timely resolution of supplier issues for assigned contracts
• Function as liaison between internal organizations and suppliers for assigned contracts
• In partnership with cross-functional teams, interprets internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes, or services. Utilizes understanding of industry trends to inform decision making process.
• Leads others to find creative solutions within complex contractual landscape with an emphasis on commercial value generation using all available currencies
• Has the ability to evaluate quality of information received and questions conflicting data for analysis
• Uses multiple internal and external resources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Commercial Operations, Sourcing/ Procurement, Supplier Relationship Management, Sales, Supply Chain or Contract Management roles

Desired Characteristics

• Demonstrated significant commercial leadership, and experienced in negotiating large, complex deals
• Experienced in drafting, negotiating, and closing contracts, including business and legal terms
• Acts with humility, seeks perspective of others, and creates an inclusive culture
• Delivers with focus on key business objectives, working across large matrixed organizations
• Leads with transparency to reach the best mutual outcomes for our company and its partners
• Demonstrated ability in leveraging creative commercial solutions and coaching the team to achieve the same
• Demonstrated ability to build strong internal and external relationship
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems
• Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects
• Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs