Manager, Subcontracts

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $133.2k - $199.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Northrop Grumman

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1939

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

🎖️ Defense

Manufacturing • Logistics • Defense

Northrop Grumman is a leading global aerospace and defense company, recognized for its innovative solutions in air, cyber, land, sea, and space domains. With a focus on advanced technologies and innovation, Northrop Grumman provides unmatched expertise in military communications, satellite communications, and microelectronics manufacturing. The company is committed to solving complex challenges and 'defining possible' by transforming the concepts of what's achievable. Northrop Grumman is also actively involved in sustainability efforts and offers career opportunities to various levels of professionals, including veterans and entry-level candidates.

📋 Description

• Manage a team of subcontracts professionals responsible for establishing, maintaining, and monitoring supplier agreements of varying risk and complexity • Support the selection, development, and management of strategic and preferred suppliers to meet program cost and performance goals across four operating units • Manage team assignments, workloads, staffing levels, performance reviews, and continuous improvement efforts • Conduct strategic sourcing and establish supplier long-term agreements • Support contract change management, performance management, and sole-source/critical-supplier management • Negotiate pricing using cost/price and best-value analysis • Negotiate contract terms and conditions covering financial terms, acceptance criteria, delivery requirements, warranty, intellectual property, termination, indemnification, and other risks • Ensure customer-contract provisions and risks are properly flowed down to supplier contracts • Establish and maintain formal supplier agreements and purchase orders • Incorporate customer or internal changes into contracts or purchase orders and manage customer requirements and schedules • Track cost savings and cost avoidance • Support subcontract administrators in establishing billing and payment terms, including milestones • Facilitate timely invoice payment and ensure purchase-order awards remain within program budget • Support Estimate at Completion (EAC) reductions • Ensure subcontract administrators apply import/export regulations, security regulations concerning vendor visits or information sharing, and government contract requirements • Support auditing processes • Plan, motivate, and accomplish goals through staff using sound scientific/technical judgment, innovative thinking, and interpersonal/management skills

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, Finance, Supply Chain Management or a related field and 8 years of supply chain procurement experience in a manufacturing environment, OR a Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain Management or a related field and 6 years of supply chain procurement experience in a manufacturing environment • Previous U.S. government subcontracting experience (FAR/DFAR) • Previous experience with ERP systems such as Deltek and Costpoint • Strong negotiation skills to achieve best value • Proactive and self-directed; able to instruct and act quickly and responsibly • Demonstrated success managing a team of supply chain professionals with positive results • Ability to acquire a Security Clearance, which requires US Citizenship as a prerequisite • Preferred: 10+ years of related experience • Preferred: Previous leadership experience • Preferred: Previous experience leading large teams • Preferred: Previous experience managing large subcontracts from cradle to grave • Preferred: Previous experience negotiating various contract types and terms and conditions

🏖️ Benefits

• Overtime eligibility, depending on position • Shift differential, depending on position • Discretionary bonus • Health insurance coverage • Life insurance • Disability insurance • Savings plan • Company-paid holidays • Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business