Senior Contract Manager - Public Sector & Defense

Atos Group; Alaska; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Atos Group is seeking a Senior Contract Manager for Public Sector & Defense to lead contract management across a portfolio of complex engagements. You will review, draft, negotiate, and administer MSAs, SOWs, amendments, and change orders, ensuring accurate commercial positions and governance.

You will partner with legal, finance, procurement, and delivery teams to minimize risk and maximize value. You will support sales-to-delivery transitions, manage repositories, and drive contract

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, law, public administration, finance, or related field.
• 8–10 years of progressive contract management experience supporting Public Sector, Government, or Defense customers.
• Experience negotiating technology services, outsourcing, managed services, cloud, or digital transformation contracts.
• Strong understanding of contractual risk management, governance, and change management principles.
• Experience working with executive leadership and customer stakeholders.
• Exp supporting US FED, State, local gov

Responsibilities

• Lead the review, drafting, negotiation, interpretation, and administration of complex customer agreements, including MSAs, SOWs, amendments, change orders, renewals and extensions, subcontractor agreements, and NDAs.
• Ensure contractual documentation accurately reflects agreed commercial and operational positions.
• Support transition from sales to delivery through effective contract handover and contract awareness initiatives.
• Maintain contract repositories and ensure critical milestones, obligations, renewals, and notice requirements are tracked and managed.
• Serve as the primary contractual advisor to account leadership, business executives, delivery teams, and customer stakeholders.
• Support strategic pursuits, contract renewals, scope expansions, and major contract modifications.
• Provide contractual analysis to support business decisions and identify opportunities to maximize contractual value and revenue generation.
• Participate in executive governance meetings and customer reviews as the contractual subject matter expert.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate contractual, commercial, regulatory, and compliance risks.
• Develop and maintain account-specific risk registers and contractual obligation matrices.
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies, contractual commitments, government regulations, and industry requirements applicable to Public Sector and Defense engagements.
• Escalate significant contractual risks and recommend appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with customer contract, procurement, legal, and operational teams.
• Lead contractual discussions, negotiations, and issue resolution activities.
• Work closely with Legal, Finance, Procurement, Delivery, Sales, and Executive Leadership to ensure alignment on contractual matters.
• Act as an escalation point for complex contractual issues requiring strategic judgment and negotiation expertise.

Skills

Negotiation

Communication

Presentation skills

Relationship management

Executive stakeholder management

Risk governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, law, public administration, finance, or related field

Job description

Atos Group is seeking a Senior Contract Manager for Public Sector & Defense to lead contract management across a portfolio of complex engagements. You will review, draft, negotiate, and administer MSAs, SOWs, amendments, and change orders, ensuring accurate commercial positions and governance.

You will partner with legal, finance, procurement, and delivery teams to minimize risk and maximize value. You will support sales-to-delivery transitions, manage repositories, and drive contract