Strategic Contracts Leader - Public Sector & Defense

Atos SE; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Atos in the United States is seeking a Senior Contract Manager to lead the contract management function across Public Sector and Defense accounts. You will oversee review, drafting, negotiation, administration, governance, and change management of complex agreements, ensuring compliance and strategic value.

You will work with executives, delivery, legal, finance, and procurement to mitigate risks, drive renewals, and realize revenue, while guiding contract awareness through the transition from

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, Law, Public Administration, Finance, or related field.
• 8–10 years of progressive contract management experience, incl. public sector, government, or defense.
• Experience negotiating and managing complex 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.
• Excellent negotiation, comm, presentation and relationship mgmt skills.
• Exp supporting US FED, State, local gov

Responsibilities

• Lead the review, drafting, negotiation, interpretation, and administration of complex customer agreements, including MSAs, SOWs, amendments and change orders.
• Ensure contractual documentation 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 contractual 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; maintain risk registers and obligation matrices.
• Escalate significant contractual risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with customer contract, procurement, legal, and operational teams; lead discussions and issue resolution activities.

Skills

Negotiation

Communication

Presentation

Relationship management

Governance

Risk management

Contract management

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, Law, Public Administration, Finance, or related field

Job description

Atos in the United States is seeking a Senior Contract Manager to lead the contract management function across Public Sector and Defense accounts. You will oversee review, drafting, negotiation, administration, governance, and change management of complex agreements, ensuring compliance and strategic value.

You will work with executives, delivery, legal, finance, and procurement to mitigate risks, drive renewals, and realize revenue, while guiding contract awareness through the transition from