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What does this role look like?
We have an outstanding opportunity for an experienced Contracts Leader to join the National Security Space (NSS) line of business supporting a diverse and exciting portfolio that continues to expand. The Space Security Cyber and Analytics Senior Contracts Manager will lead a team of contracts management professionals supporting existing and future contracts with domestic and international customers.
Are you looking for a career where you can have a significant positive impact on nationally critical programs, and serve some of your country’s most important and dynamic security missions? A job where you can grow and learn? Join our Contracts team and become a part of something special in support of these missions. The Contracts team needs leaders with strong business acumen and a desire to grow themselves and support development of others.
At Lockheed Martin, we are passionate about innovation and integrity. We believe that by applying the highest standards of business ethics and forward-thinking, everything is within our capacity – and yours as a Lockheed Martin employee. Lockheed Martin values your skills, training, education and background. Our culture supports employees to dream big, perform with excellence and build incredible products. We provide the resources, inspiration and focus and if you have the passion and courage, we want to build a better tomorrow with you
In this dynamic role the candidate will:
• Implement Prime contract strategies consistent with Corporate and Business Area strategic imperatives.
• Provide highly visible leadership to the mission segment and portfolio personnel to ensure the team develops flexible strategies to support enterprise needs.
•The candidate will develop and maintain customer relationships to ensure positive and constructive interactions both internally and externally
• The candidate will act as an advocate for diversity and inclusion and create opportunities for positive employee engagement.
• The candidate will manage and provide leadership for activities associated with contract responsibilities including but not limited to: preparation and contract negotiations; assessment of terms and conditions to ensure the corporation is protected from unusual risk and that strategy supports the mission area long-range plan
• The candidate will work cross-functionally with different stakeholders in the organization, including, engineering, business development, legal, procurement, finance, tax, and accounting to ensure projects and deal meet program and corporate command media.
Do you want to be part of an environment that encourages and supports employees to think big, perform with quality and build incredible products? We provide the resources, inspiration and focus - if you have the resourcefulness and courage to work hard, then we want to build a better tomorrow with you. Come and experience your future! • 10+ years of contracts management, subcontract management, paralegal or other comparable experience within a law firm or legal department
• Master's degree, Juris Doctor, Paralegal certification or NCMA certification
• Prior (IC) intelligence community experience
• Experience with international/commercial contracts
• Leadership of direct reporting leaders
• You will need to be a US Citizen, and currently posses and be able to maintain a US TOP SECRET/ SCI clearance with polygraph, to support these government contracts. • 10+ years of US Government customer interface with prime or sub-experience across large multi-million / billion-dollar programs
• 2+ years of leadership of prime or subcontracts organizations with oversight of direct reporting employees
• 10+ years of combined experience with FAR/DFAR, intelligence community policies and/or international contracting
• You will need to be a US Citizen, and currently posses and be able to maintain a US TOP SECRET clearance to support these government contracts, as well as successfully pass a drug and background check, in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
