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Contracts Senior Manager

Contracts Senior Manager

LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION - Littleton, CO 80125

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The coolest jobs on this planet… or any other… are with Lockheed Martin Space.

At the dawn of a new space age, Lockheed Martin is a pioneer, partner, innovator and builder. Our amazing men and women are on a mission to make a difference in the world and every day we use our unique skills and experiences to create, design and build solutions to some of the worlds’ hardest engineering problems.

We have an outstanding opportunity for a Contracts Senior Manager to join the Lunar Exploration Campaign mission area within the Commercial Civil Space line of business. Our portfolio continues to expand, and this assignment provides exceptional opportunities to shape the future and position for many future advancement opportunities.

In this dynamic role you will:

• Implement Prime contract strategies consistent with LM Space Systems and Line of Business (LOB) strategic imperatives.
• Provide highly visible leadership to the mission area contracts personnel to ensure the team develops flexible contracting strategies to support the needs of the mission area, LOB and Space.
• Partner with mission area and LOB functional organizations to ensure contracting activities are vetted across multiple stakeholders.
• Ensure each contract and proposal action is reviewed and approved consistent with the Space and LOB Delegation of Authority and that all documentation is complete per command media/policy.
• Develop and maintain customer relationships to ensure positive and constructive interactions.
• Act as an advocate for diversity and inclusion and create opportunities for positive employee engagement.
• Manage and provide leadership for activities associated with contract management responsibilities including but not limited to: proposal preparation and contract negotiations; assessment of terms and conditions to ensure the corporation is protected from unusual risk and sustains or improves the mission area long range plan; management of mission area financial exposure authorizations; contract closeouts and interface with Supply Chain leadership to ensure relevant contracting requirements are communicated and incorporated.

This position is accountable to ensure that all Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) requirements and Finance & Business Operations (F&BO) processes are implemented on applicable proposals. This position is also responsible for the multi-functional coordination of the Executive Planning Panel (EPP) process to ensure that mission area, LOB and Corporate EPPs are conducted in a timely and efficient manner. This position is also accountable for all mission area customer interactions within the contracts organization to ensure that customer relationships are developed and maintained to ensure mutual contracts are negotiated and program execution is conducted in a highly collaborated manner with the customer.

To promote the sharing of ideas, Lockheed Martin fosters an inclusive work environment that encourages differences and big-picture thinking.

Our employees play an active role in strengthening the quality of life where we live and work by volunteering more than 850,000 hours annually. Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy:

• Medical
• Dental
• 401k
• Paid time off
• Work/life balance
• Career development
• Mentorship opportunities
• Rewards & recognition

Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s team of 113,000 people works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in all 50 states and more than 570 facilities that span 70 countries.

Join us at Lockheed Martin, where we’re engineering a better tomorrow
Basic Qualifications:

• Extensive US Government (USG) customer interface with prime or sub-contracting experience across large programs.
• Leadership of prime contracts or subcontracts organizations.
• Demonstrated Leadership experience and demonstrated Full Spectrum Leadership competencies.
• Significant experience with policies related to USG, commercial and international contracting with a strong understanding of the FAR and DFAR.
• Demonstrated ability to financially analyze terms and conditions.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with USG, international, commercial, or NASA customers
• Excellent interpersonal skills and verbal and written communication skills.
• Master's degree or Juris Doctor.
• Current Top Secret Security Clearance w/ recent (5yr) polygraph
• Demonstrated experience Interfacing with Executive Leadership on complex contractual issues.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
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Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
EXPERIENCE LEVEL:
Experienced Professional