Contracts Manager

The role

The Contracts Manager owns the formation, negotiation, and administration of customer and supplier agreements. This role designs workflows, systems, and controls to move agreements from intake to signature across sales and procurement.

What you will do

• Own assigned customer and supplier agreements from intake through closeout
• Draft, revise, and interpret long-term supply agreements, master agreements, subcontracts, purchase orders, quote terms, NDAs, SOWs, amendments, and change orders
• Digest FAR, DFARS, and customer-specific clauses to determine obligations
• Draft and administer terms for subcontracts, suppliers, and capital equipment
• Review customer terms and purchase orders against established positions
• Own the portfolio end to end across customers, suppliers, and prospective partners
• Maintain the contract record in accordance with company and regulatory requirements
• Own the contract lifecycle platform and serve as first-line support for users

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, contracts management, supply chain management, finance, law, or a related field
• 5+ years in contract management, contract administration, or procurement contracting in aerospace, defense, or advanced manufacturing
• Experience negotiating from the supplier’s side of the table with prime contractors or major OEMs
• Substantial experience administering purchase orders, supplier terms, and subcontracts in a manufacturing, industrial, or hardware environment
• Working command of the FAR and DFARS clauses
• Demonstrated record of negotiating complex agreements to closure
• Demonstrated record of building contracting infrastructure
• Hands-on ownership of a contract lifecycle management system as an administrator
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel
• Ability to interpret legal language and translate requirements into guidance for engineering, program, and operations teams
• Exceptional written work product
• Exceptional organizational discipline under volume, comfort with ambiguity, and a bias toward decision

Nice to have

• Master’s degree, MBA, JD, or graduate degree in business, law, or supply chain management
• Professional certification such as NCMA’s Certified Commercial Contracts Manager (CCCM), Certified Professional Contracts Manager (CPCM), or Certified Federal Contracts Manager (CFCM), or an equivalen
• Experience on the supplier side of defense, aerospace, or commercial space programs, including Navy, Air Force, Space Force, or Army platforms
• Experience administering subcontracts under prime contractor terms and conditions at a tier-one or tier-two supplier
• Experience in a procurement, sourcing, or supply chain organization, or as the contracts partner embedded in one
• Experience running a contract lifecycle implementation or migration

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
• 401k
• Relocation support may be provided for certain situations
• Flexible vacation policy
• Equity

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of St
• An active security clearance, or eligibility to obtain one

About the company

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America by combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing. They help aerospace and defense companies build mission-critical systems.