Senior Manager, Commercial and Contracts in Melbourne, Australia

Senior Manager, Commercial and Contracts

Mission Networks

Melbourne, Aus

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Join our Melbourne office as our Sr. Manager of Commercial and Contracts. This role is exciting yet challenging and requires a confident professional who is able to negotiate commercially while effectively maintaining important relationships, along with the ability to resolve highly complex problems, use sound judgement, and develop creative solutions. This is an opportunity to take on unique challenges, expand your skillset, and contribute to an industry leading Air Traffic Modernisation initiative.

Focusing on current projects and clients, you will contribute to the end-to-end commercial management of these major contracts. As a Subject Matter Expert, you will ensure company compliance with government regulations, corporate policies, and best practices. You will also be involved with analyzing, preparing, and negotiating contractual agreements as the business opportunity presents.

What the role will involve:

• Act as an advisor for proposal and contract execution, including detailed risk analysis and offering sound business advice and guidance for all critical pursuits.

• Lead the management of a complex head contract, which includes relationship management, beginning-to-end contract management, and maintenance of schedules, coordinating responses, identifying risks, and ensuring a smooth and efficient delivery to the customer.

• Proactive management of high volumes of change. This requires an ability to follow the contractual change process and other change mechanisms developed to ensure timely responses, working closely with subcontract teammates to ensure our subcontractors meet deadlines, evaluating change information, consolidating information into concise and effective contractual documentation, commercially negotiating contractual clauses and pricing, and understanding the flow-downs between the head contract and the subcontracts.

• Managing and working collaboratively with the broader Commercial and Contracts Team and ensuring all commitments are met. Develop strong customer relationships within the program teams, interacting frequently with senior leadership, and working as a team to resolve issues.

  Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Graduate Degree with substantive experience in proposals, developing contract terms and conditions, and identifying associated commercial risk as they relate to a work scope.

• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline (Contract Management, Commerce, Law, etc.) from a recognized institution, and/or equivalent relevant commercial experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Demonstrated experience with commercial contracting/subcontracting, preferable ability to manage services-based contracts/subcontracts.

• Strong interpersonal, and verbal communication skills necessary for working in a collaborative and positive team environment.

• Proven ability dealing with high volumes of change management.

About us

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defence technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defence and commercial technologies across air, land, sea, space and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 48,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.

You don’t work at L3Harris just for the advanced technology and equipment: You work here because you know what – and who – we’re protecting. From families to the intelligence community, and from our climate to our men and women in uniform – you can make the world a safer place.

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• 5 Weeks annual leave

• Flexible annual leave (buy & sell up to 2 weeks)

• Salary continuance insurance (SCI pays 75% of your base salary and bonus for up to 2 years)

• Discounted private health insurance

• Life & Total Permanent Disability Cover

• Novated Car Leasing

Important to know

Due to the nature of our work many our roles require an Australian nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet eligibility.

Eligibility and clearance process information can be found at;

https://www.defence.gov.au/security/clearances/about/overview

L3Harris respectfully requests no agency submissions at this time.

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.