This role offers a sign on bonus of $5,000; Northrop Grumman employees are not eligible.
Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Staff Contract Administrator to support its Payload and Ground Space Systems team. This position will be located in Linthicum, MD.
The Staff Contract Administrator is responsible for supporting proposal preparation, contract negotiation, contract administration and customer contact activities to provide and ensure proper contract acquisition and fulfillment in accordance with company policies, legal requirements, and customer requirements. You will be an embedded member of the program management team, supporting program success and new growth opportunities across the portfolio.
In this role, the selected candidate will be responsible for, but not limited to the following:
- Act as primary interface with customer for contractual issues; Monitor contract and associated program to ensure that contractual obligations are communicated and understood.
- Participate in contract proposal preparation, contract negotiations, contract administration, and customer contract activities to manage assigned contracts in accordance with company policies, legal requirements, and customer specifications.
- Work under general supervision to develop solutions to both routine and complex contractual matters to ensure company compliance with contract requirements on assigned programs.
- Ensure fulfillment of contract requirements, manage contract changes and maintain historical information.
- Review terms and conditions to address provisions and risks of financial terms, acceptance criteria, delivery requirements, warranty, intellectual property, termination provisions, indemnification and all other potential risk areas and recommend risk mitigation strategies.
- Assist management in achieving financial goals related to cash management, EBIT and sales.
- Prepare and manage written communications with internal and external customers for assigned contractual matters.
- Enter and maintain contract data into Contract Management System and/or Enterprise Accounting System.
- Ensure timely delivery of all contractual deliverables and submission of invoices.
This role will have significant visibility within high visibility programs, including corporate submittals and reviews and must manage tight deadlines in a complex environment. This individual must have the ability to meet high performance expectations in a very dynamic environment.
Excellent communication is a must as the selected candidate will be directly involved in negotiations with the customer as a strategic team member. Our team is looking for someone who wants to grow and get experience with different contract types.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree and 14 years of Contracts experience or a Master’s Degree and 12 years of stated experience
- Knowledge of FAR/DFARS and/or government regulations
- Current Top-Secret Clearance/SCI.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, (specifically Excel and PowerPoint) and Adobe
Preferred Qualifications:
- Current experience as a Contracts Administrator for Department of Defense contracts.
- Excellent working knowledge of FAR/DFARS; Export Regulations.
- JD or MB
- Experience with Cost-Type and/or Firm Fixed Price contracting types