Senior Manager, Contracts

Job Summary:

Join a growing defense contractor where your work has a direct impact on major development and production programs. In this role, you’ll support both direct contracts with the U.S. Government and key subcontract efforts with top defense primes. This is an opportunity to bring your contracting expertise to a team that values sound judgment, collaboration, and clear, practical leadership.

Mercury Systems is seeking a Senior Contracts Manager to support our Integrated Processing Solutions (IPS) business contract management. This key leadership position requires a deep understanding of both commercial and Department of War contracting practices. It is vital that this individual has the capabilities to work both independently as a strong individual contributor and as a leader and team player to achieve the best contractual outcomes for our organization.

It necessitates excellent leadership and problem‑solving skills with a proactive, detail‑oriented approach driven to ensure execution of the most complex contractual challenges.

The Senior Contracts Manager will be required to deal effectively with competing priorities and deadlines. They will provide expert knowledge to assist business leaders with customer relationships, risk analysis with mitigation strategies, regulations, terms negotiation, and proposal preparation. The successful candidate must possess the ability to work well with others as part of an integrated program team in high‑pressure, high‑volume situations, effectively interface with internal matrixed organizations and meet the goals/objectives of the business.

• Manages contracts supporting line of business
• Leads through entire contracting lifecycle from solicitation to contract close‑out
• Reviews complex solicitations and prepares specialized/non‑routine proposal responses in conjunction with proposal team
• Reviews and approves contractual documents for adherence to customer specifications/requirements, compliance with Terms and Conditions, applicable FAR/DFARS clauses, special provisions and adherence to company policy and procedures
• Drafts, reviews, redlines and negotiates customer agreements, including master agreements, with the objective of protecting the Company’s interests
• Advises leadership and program teams on complex contract issues, contractual rights, obligations, intellectual property protections, organization conflicts of interest and general risks and mitigation strategies
• Develops and maintains contracting policies/processes that provide governance of contracting practices as well as guidance on contracting terms and conditions
• Maintains deadlines for customer requests; analyzes and tracks contract compliance
• Manages contract data into enterprise systems as required
• Expected to coordinate and support audit activities with Prime, Government or other agencies
• Interfaces directly with Government contracting officials, prime contractor procurement representatives, contracts team members and other cross‑functional teams including Executive Leadership, Legal, Program Management, Capture, Finance, Pricing, Proposal, Property, Quality, Engineering and other functional staff as needed

• Bachelor’s in business administration, management or related field
• Ideally 10+ years of directly related experience in contract administration/business management/finance with U.S. Government, Prime, international and commercial contracts
• Experience with standard defense contract types such as Cost Reimbursable (CR), Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF), Cost Plus Incentive Fee (CPIF), Firm Fixed Price (FFP), Time and Materials (T&M), incentive‑type contracts
• Experience in all types of contract vehicles including stand‑alone awards, IDIQs, BOAs, and OTAs
• Subject matter expert with U.S. Government regulations (FAR/DFARS), with emphasis on Part 12 Acquisition of Commercial Products and Services and Part 15 Contracting by Negotiation
• Provide strong analytical, financial, problem‑solving and negotiation skills; exemplary attention to detail
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook) as well as Adobe Acrobat
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Government security…