Core Responsibilities

• Working within the Commercial Excellence operating system including contract review, new order entry, contract administration, contract negotiation, and RFQ/Quoting/Proposal activity through the product life cycle.
• Manage positive customer relationship and consistently interface with the customer.
• Lead contract interpretation, discussion, and drafting and negotiation activity for all opportunities both new and legacy for the Warren division.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks to ensure programs meet customer expectation.
• Action item tracking: manage and ensure on time completion of cross functional deliverables.
• Communicate and ensure compliance with management of program scope creep and effective customer communications.
• Disseminate contract requirements, deliverables, and terms and conditions to functional areas.
• Create program milestone schedules including contract review, Engineering programming and planning, first article inspection, and production delivery dates.
• Develop project status reporting (delivery schedule performance), project cost tracking and budget control.
• Create and maintain Sales Order backlog in ERP system.
• Participate in Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Actions (RRCA) as required.
• Coordinate with other departments in regard to contract administration, delivery commitments, configuration control, charge backs, customer PO's, contract reviews, action item tracking, and issue resolution.
• ITAR compliance
  
  

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in a contract management/ account management related position in a manufacturing environment.
• Contracts experience with commercial, international, and direct and indirect government contracts. FAR, DFARS knowledge a plus.
• Strong analytical ability with excellent attention to detail, follow-up and organizational skills.
• Impeccable integrity; superior communication and interpersonal skills; ability to effectively tailor messaging with and for all levels of the organization.
• Familiarity of lean process management to enable continuous improvement.
• Understanding of bid and contract language and standard procedures.
  
  

Education Requirements

B.S. degree in related business or years of experience in lieu of Education.