Description: What is it like to work in contracts at Lockheed Martin?

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At the dawn of a new space age, Lockheed Martin is a pioneer, partner, innovator and builder. Our amazing people 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.

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!

Basic Qualifications:

• 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.

Desired Skills:

• 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.

Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

Clearance Level: TS/SCI w/Poly

Other Important Information You Should Know

Expression of Interest: 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.

Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.

Schedule for this Position: 9x80 every other Friday off

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.

The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.

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

Business Unit: SPACE

Relocation Available: Possible

Career Area: Contracts

Type: Full-Time

Shift: First