Subcontracts Manager 2

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman in Huntsville, AL, or Boulder, CO, seeks a Subcontracts Manager 2 to lead a team of about 10 Subcontract Administrators, ensuring subcontracts meet cost and schedule objectives.

You will negotiate terms, manage risk, support proposals, and ensure compliance with FAR/DFARS and data rights. Remote work is not available. This role requires a U.S. Government Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 8+ years of Subcontracts/Contracts experience, or Master’s with 6+ years.
• Minimum 2 years leading a team or IPT.
• Knowledgeable in FAR, DFARS, and corporate flow downs, data rights negotiations, and commercial item determination.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Manages a team of Subcontract Administrators to meet program cost and schedule objectives.
• Negotiates subcontractor price, schedule, milestones, terms, and conditions for favorable deals.
• Identifies strategies to reduce cost, improve efficiency and manage risk with suppliers.
• Supports performance management of subcontractors and leads supplier management activities.
• Ensures compliance with FAR/DFARS and customer flow-downs.
• Supports proposals and quick-turn quotations from subcontractors.

Skills

Team leadership

Negotiation

Subcontracts management

FAR/DFARS

Data rights

EVMS

SAP

Excel

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor's Degree in related field

Master's Degree (optional)

Tools

SAP

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work - and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Expand your horizons, advance your career, and contribute to a secure future for generations. Northrop Grumman's Space Sector invites you to bring your pioneering spirit to our collaborative teams. As a Subcontracts Manager 2, located in Huntsville, AL , or Boulder, CO, you'll be a linchpin in missions of paramount importance, defining the art of the possible from day one. Remote work is not available.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manages a team of approximately 10 Subcontract Administrators and play a key role in ensuring subcontracts are placed meeting program cost and schedule objectives
• Negotiates subcontractor price, schedule, milestone payments, terms and conditions, to ensure NGC is making favorable business deals with leverage to overcome subcontractor performance issues
• Identifies strategies and opportunities to reduce cost, improve efficiency and manage risk with supply base or internal processes
• Support performance management of subcontractors, and, depending on the size of the subcontract, act as lead member of a Supplier Management Team. Experienced with and can contribute to the evaluation of the supply base performance in the SAMS tool; can identify and resolve supplier performance issues; collaborates with the GSC PMs to support supplier performance and help manage supplier Return to Green Plans (RTG's)
• Ensures compliance with NGC policy and procedures, FAR, and customer contractual flow-downs
• Supports NGC proposals and influence quick-turn quotations from subcontractors
• Supports Subcontracts Specialists through all phases of the Subcontract including requests for proposal, contracting strategy, contract negotiation, contract administration and contract closeout to ensure contract acquisition and fulfillment is in accordance with company policies, legal requirements, and Customer specifications.
• Acts as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) and the main focal point for Subcontract activities relating to negotiating, interpreting and implementing contract terms and requirements, including the compliant contractual implementation of data rights.
• Advises management of contractual rights and obligations.
• Performs independent research and analysis of complex and strategically important risks related to suppliers.
• Coordinates with cross-functional teams on complex issues and risks to develop and present appropriate mitigation plans to Supplier Management Teams and Leadership.
• Coordinates with Contracts team on proposed new or revised contract terms or requirements; facilitates flow-down to Subcontracts Specialists by identifying and communicating any potential impacts or implications for consideration.
• Identifies and closes knowledge gaps across all Subcontract Specialist levels by creating and presenting trainings and mentorship.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 8 years of experience in Subcontracts or Contracts - OR - Master's Degree and a minimum of 6 years of experience in Subcontracts or Contracts;
• Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree
• Minimum 2 years' experience leading a team or as an IPT Lead
• Knowledgeable in FAR, DFARS, and corporate flow downs, data rights negotiations, and commercial item determination
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Has worked a prior role in the Subcontracts or Contracts organizations, managing a contract valued at $25M or greater
• Experience managing a team of direct reports
• Experience in Contracts or Subcontracts in the Aerospace and Defense industry
• Experience working on high dollar firm fixed price and cost-plus development Subcontracts and teaming agreements
• Experience conducting presentations and collaborating with Senior Leadership Cost Account Manager (CAM), Integrated Product Team Lead, or Supplier Management Team Lead
• Working knowledge of Earned Value Management System (EVMS)
• Experience with SAP or related purchasing software, Excel, PowerPoint
• Proven record of negotiation subcon