Senior Contracts Manager - Adelaide, Australia - Lockheed Martin

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Competitive salary - 9 day compacted fortnight
Lockheed Martin is a dynamic, growing, and energetic organisation offering stimulating, challenging work at the forefront of technology.

Lockheed Martin is a leader in Australia's National Security, and our collaboration with Australian industry spans the Aeronautics, Maritime, Surveillance and Defence domains.

We employ approximately 114,000 staff worldwide, and over 1200 staff in Australia across multiple locations.

About the role:

The Senior Contract Manager will work in collaboration with business stakeholders and Contracts/Sourcing Leads as part of the Commercial function to provide sound Contracts' strategy, planning and advice.

Some of the activities you will contribute to include:
Drive contractual performance through negotiation, strategy development, improvement initiatives and provision of expert commercial advice
Identify innovative commercial solutions to improve delivery performance, reduce costs and create value for money
Provide expert commercial oversight, management and governance to the business within assigned responsibility
Work with customer and subcontractors to develop relationships, commercial strategies and plans to improve business delivery, supplier performance and customer satisfaction
Tailor contracts and subcontracts to incorporate business, supplier and customer efficiencies during negotiations for contract initiation and contract changes
Increase business revenues through efficiencies and new business opportunities

About you:

As a Senior Contract Manager within our Commercial functional team, and an important contributor to developing others, it will be important that you value and have the ability to coach, mentor and provide technical commercial counsel and support to team members at all levels within their careers.

To be successful in this role you will have:

Extensive experience in negotiation and resolution of complex issues to achieve a positive, commercially focused outcomes
Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline (Contract Management, Commerce, Law, etc.) and/or extensive relevant experience
Significant contracts and subcontracts experience along with refined leadership skills
Detailed knowledge of business management policies and procedures
Significant Commercial skills and specialised understanding of commercial approaches in a multi domain environment
Excel in customer, strategic supplier and senior stakeholder engagement with the aim of shaping optimal commercial outcomes for the business
Significant ASDEFCON background / experience
Advanced knowledge of relevant legislative and regulatory standards, business management policies and procedures
Demonstrated experience working within an engineering or project environment (preferably within the defence industry)

Special Requirements:
Applicants are required to be Australian Citizens and ideally hold a current or re-instatable NV1 Defence Security Clearance.

What we offer you:
At Lockheed Martin we value our team and the contribution they make every day.
We offer rewarding career pathways working on interesting projects that make a difference, continuous professional development and the opportunity to learn from a diverse team of talented individuals

In return we offer:
Competitive Remuneration
A genuine work/life flexibility including a 9-day, compacted fortnight (every other Friday off)
Membership to Destination Discounts – that saves you money on many every day purchases including supermarkets, petrol, department stores to name a few
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