Subcontracts Manager IV

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Located in Pasadena, California, JPL has a campus-like environment situated on 177 acres in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and offers a work environment unlike any other: we inspire passion, foster innovation, build collaboration, and reward excellence.

The Acquisition Division at JPL supports the exploration and innovation of the Laboratory’s missions by working with our colleagues and subcontractors to provide exceptional acquisition solutions for our laboratory partners through unparalleled business performance while ensuring compliance with the Prime Contract with NASA and maintaining JPL’s financial integrity. This position specifically supports the Facility Management Subcontracts Group.

• Manage a portfolio of complex subcontracts consisting of interesting and diverse subcontracts, ranging from technology demonstrations, research studies, proposal and design work, and software and hardware development.
• Serve as the primary business interface with subcontractors in support of project procurement requirements.
• Use critical thinking skills to develop solutions to unique subcontract issues and autonomously oversee the total supply chain management process, from identification of customer requirements through closeout of the subcontract.
• Manage the subcontract process from beginning to end, including market research to identify potential sources, drafting, soliciting, selecting, awarding, managing, and closing a wide range of subcontracts from fixed-price, labor hour, to cost type.
• In collaboration with your technical counterpart, develop solicitation documents to acquire cost or pricing proposals.
• Apply all available information to formulate negotiation strategies and conduct negotiations on delivery, price, technical requirements, and subcontract terms.
• After subcontract award, partner with a JPL technical counterpart to manage the cost, schedule, and quality of a Subcontractor’s performance to ensure compliance with Laboratory requirements and resolve discrepancies.
• Negotiate and issue subcontract modifications as needed and ensure the timely closeout of subcontracts.
• Provide excellent customer service by navigating customers through the total supply chain process and developing unique acquisition solutions, aligned with NASA JPL requirements, in order to meet the needs of JPL engineers, scientists, and projects.

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or related discipline with a minimum of 9 years of related experience;
  Master’s degree in similar disciplines with a minimum of 7 years of related experience; or PhD in similar disciplines with a minimum of 5 years related experience.
• Wide-ranging experience and advanced knowledge in one or more of the following areas:
  Contract Management, Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), administration of cost-type research and development (R&D) contracts.
• Extensive understanding and previous application of principles, theories, concepts and techniques in processing procurements and performing subcontract post award administration.
• Experience in commercial, government, and/or academic related subcontracting environment encompassing pre-solicitation, solicitation, evaluating/source selection, award, post-award management and closeout activities.

• Experience in purchasing flight R&D hardware
• Wide range of experience in applying best business practices in a government related subcontracting environment, including source selection, conducting negotiations and management of a variety of complex subcontracts.
• Experience analyzing multi-million-dollar cost proposals
• Understanding of and…