Senior Contracts Leader - Aerospace Division

PARKER HANNIFIN CORP; Akron (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Incentive Plan

Tuition reimbursement

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Job summary

Parker Aerospace, a division of Parker Hannifin Corp, seeks a Division Contracts Manager to lead complex contract management across US/UK sites. You’ll oversee negotiations, risk assessment, and governance while coordinating with internal teams to meet strategic goals.

Ideal candidates have extensive contract management experience, leadership in teams, and strong knowledge of export controls and regulatory requirements. This role offers growth and competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Law, Business Administration or a related discipline. Advanced Contracts Management certification required (e.g., NCMA; IACCM or equivalent) unless JD or MBA.
• Eight or more years of related experience, including 5 years in leadership and/or project lead role. Demonstrated leadership of multiple contracts of varying complexity and scope.
• Prior training and experience in leadership concepts and management principles.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the contract management processes and all contract types. Strong knowledge of regulations and laws applicable to contracts.
• Requires basic knowledge in a broad range of Export Regulatory Requirements at minimum.
• Proficient in contract management concepts, tools, techniques, and risk management. Strong negotiation skills. Comprehensive knowledge of legal principles and ability to identify high-risk terms; understanding of the impact of key terms to flow down.
• Ability to quickly identify and address critical issues on programs and contracts and lead the team to develop action plan to improve performance.
• Demonstrated ability to create strong partnerships with the contract customers, end use customers, and suppliers where required.
• Able to lead process improvements; able to oversee/conduct training and rollout efforts to institutionalize process improvements.
• Ability to effectively communicate and present status, actions, recommendations, and other technical information with clarity and precision. Able to respond to significant inquiries from customers, regulatory agencies, or other teams. Able to influence business decisions and negotiate resource allocation.
• Has in-depth knowledge of applied technology and processes on assigned contracts and programs.
• Demonstrated use of business concepts and accounting principles associated with project cost and budgetary planning/control. Thorough understanding of relationships between basic product, program and operational information related to contracting. Solid understanding of estimation methods.
• Effectively uses current information technology, systems, and business applications related to contracting and customer/supplier interface; is proficient with standard software (e.g. Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes), project management and database analysis tools.

Responsibilities

• Leads team in performing analysis, interpretation, investigation, and research of complex contractual information. Advises team, Senior Leadership and other functions on contract interpretation of contractual rights, benefits and obligations and in developing solutions and formal recommendations.
• Leads team in generating, drafting, reviewing and negotiating terms and conditions for all business matters relating to customer contracting.
• Evaluates the company’s contractual risk in terms of cost exposure and establishes review processes to mitigate risk during contract performance.
• Manages contractual change control process and ensures an effective flow down of contract requirements.
• Maintains contacts with domestic and foreign civilian and military representatives, as well as customers and government officials; analyzes problems and coordinates responses.

Skills

Contract management

Negotiation

Leadership

Regulatory knowledge

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Export controls knowledge

Legal principles

Education

Bachelor degree in Law, Business Administration or related discipline

Tools

Microsoft Office

Lotus Notes

Project management tools

Job description

Parker Aerospace, a division of Parker Hannifin Corp, seeks a Division Contracts Manager to lead complex contract management across US/UK sites. You’ll oversee negotiations, risk assessment, and governance while coordinating with internal teams to meet strategic goals.

Ideal candidates have extensive contract management experience, leadership in teams, and strong knowledge of export controls and regulatory requirements. This role offers growth and competitive benefits.