Standard Job Description

What is the mission?

At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. 

We’re erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We’re advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we’re reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity.

By bringing together people that use their passion for purposeful innovation, at Lockheed Martin we keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work. With our employees as our priority, we provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel development and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. At Lockheed Martin, we place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility. Your Mission is Ours.

What does this role look like? 

• This is for a Subcontract Administrator that supports the end‑to‑end administration subcontracts supporting the Space Based Interceptor Program.
• Supply chain lead in the fast-paced, strategic environment, responsible for delivering significant Enterprise value by driving commonality, efficiency, and affordability.

In this role will offer you the following daily key responsibilities:

• Be responsible for managing the daily business rhythm of the program Subcontract Management Team (SMT), managing action items, update routine presentations, administer team meetings, mantaining business tools, update resource planning, mantaining team metrics, etc. 
• Serves as the primary liaison between external suppliers, while being an internal POC for program teams, engineering, legal/compliance and finance ensuring timely, compliant, and value driven subcontract execution.
• Ensures that all subcontract documents are created, reviewed, approved, executed, and maintained in compliance with company policy, federal acquisition regulations, and customer contractual requirements.
• Will prepare subcontractor Request for Proposal (RFP) packages, conducts bidders' list to ensure competitive outreach, develops evaluation criteria, and analyzes and evaluates proposals to determine best-value subcontractor for Program.
• Includes all execution tasks supporting negotiating subcontract terms and conditions and price, supporting all authorization to proceed (ATP) tasks for multiple contract types through hardware delivery.
• Develops subcontract specifications, work statements, and terms and conditions for the procurement of specialized materials, equipment, and services for subcontracts in support of development, production and global sustainment for multiple contract types. Prepares bid packages, conducts bidders' conferences, develops evaluation criteria, analyzes and evaluates proposals, negotiates subcontract provisions, selects or recommends subcontractors, writes subcontract packages for review, prepares awards and administers resulting subcontracts. Negotiates and coordinates additions, deletions, or modifications to subcontracts. Participates with contracts administration and purchasing to develop subcontract policies and procedures. May sign supplier agreements and purchase orders within established authority.

Basic Qualifications

To be effective, you will need to possess these basic qualifications:

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or equivalent experience / combined education

• Professional experience in Supply Chain Management (i.e… Procurement, Subcontract Administration, Subcontract Management, Negotiation, proposal, and/or Category Management)

• Proficient with MS Offce tools (Office, Teams, OneNote, PowerPoint, Excel, Word).
• You will need to be a US Citizen, and be able to obtain and maintain a US  SECRET clearance, to support this government contract, as well as successfully pass a drug and background check, in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.  Please note: No clearance is required to apply, nor prior to start.

Desired Skills

To be effective, ideally, you should also have:

• Business acumen
• Organized and able to coordinate team business rhythm
• LM P2P and/or SAP experience
• Negotiations skills
• Able to adapt to change quickly
• Data analytics
• Familiarity with enterprise resource planning software
• Familiarity with Federal Acquisition Procedures and government contracting.
• Posses excellent communication skills, both written, verbal, and presentation, to effectively communicate business cases to all levels of peers, suppliers, as well as program and executive management.