Staff, Contracts Management

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree from an accredited college.
• Ability to manage or negotiate contracts
• Able to effectively communicate with internal stakeholders and external customers on strategies to resolve contractual issues.

Job Description

Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more — we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.

At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We’re erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We’re advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we’re reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity.

Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that's built for you.

In This Role You Will

• Provide guidance, advice and counsel to FBM programmatic and technical staff regarding contract interpretation issues, contract scope issues, and other contract-related matters.
• Review and evaluate customer requests for proposal or revisions to contracts; provide risk assessments and offer alternative approaches to mitigate risks, including alternative contractual language; evaluate and coordinate proposals; investigate and reconcile significant contract changes involving cost, specifications, schedules, etc.
• Prior professional experience working with multiple contract types (FPI, CPIF/CPFF), fee arrangements, as well as deep experience with FAR/DFARS.
• You must be a U.S. Citizen and currently possess or be able to obtain/maintain a U.S. DoD SECRET clearance, to support this government contract, as well as successfully pass a drug and background check, in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Desired Skills

• Analytical skills to support and achieve business goals and a desire to help grow the business and gain efficiencies to improve program performance and drive results.
• Skilled at independent learning and research.
• Ability to take the lead in a team environment and provide contractual support and guidance to other program personnel.
• Comfortable exercising latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments, serving as point-of-contact to the USG customer on major matters pertaining to program policies, plans, and objectives.

Demonstrated development of solutions to a variety of complex problems.

• Ensures solutions are consistent with program and organization objectives and policies.
• Ability to guide strategic activities and to develop incentive fee plans.
• Strong positive customer relations track record.
• Mentoring cohorts and associates.
• Must be experienced negotiating contracts and working with different contract types, i.e. CPFF, FFP, CPIF, etc.
• FAR, DFARS experience
• 5+ years of related contracts management and negotiation experiences

Other Important Information

By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.

Ability to work remotely

Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.