# Senior Subcontracts Specialist

**Company**: Leidos
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $73,450.00 - $132,775.00
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Defence & Intelligence

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## Description

Leidos' Defense Sector is seeking a Senior Subcontracts Specialist to join its team. The successful candidate will report directly to the Director, Global Supply Chain and serve as an integrated member of the Defense Contracts and Supply Chain organization.

The Senior Subcontracts Specialist will be responsible for activities that span the entire procurement cycle, including negotiation of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and teaming agreements, preparation of solicitation packages to subcontractors, evaluation of subcontractor proposals, price analysis, negotiation of terms and conditions, subcontract administration, issue resolution, and closeout activities.

Key responsibilities:

- Creates moderate to complex RFP solicitations in accordance with Government and Leidos requirements

- Negotiates NDAs and Teaming Agreements

- Evaluates supplier proposal responses

- Conducts price and cost analysis

- Negotiates pricing and terms/conditions with subcontractors

- Administers subcontracts of various types and complexity

- Identifies and resolves moderate issues and problems on assigned subcontracts and makes recommendations to management

- Performs subcontract close-out activities

- Lead negotiations and execution of strategic long-term agreements with key suppliers to support supply continuity, affordability, innovation, and long-term procurement savings

- Collaborate with Contracts, Supply Chain, Business Development, Program Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, and other stakeholders to integrate supplier strategies early in capture, proposal, and program lifecycles

- Identify and mitigate complex issues or risks for the managed subcontract portfolio

- Translate supplier data into executive-ready insights, recommendations, and action plans that enable measurable savings, stronger supplier performance, improved compliance, and reduced Sector risk

The ideal candidate will have:

- A Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and 4+ years of prior relevant experience or Master's degree with 2+ years of prior relevant experience

- Experience awarding and managing subcontracts in a government-approved purchasing system (CPSR) including an advanced knowledge of the requirements of the FAR/DFARS, other Federal agency requirements, and small business participation

- Successful background of using negotiating skills to maximize organizational return, minimize risk, improve price, and terms and conditions position

- Successful track record of managing a variety of subcontract types, interfacing with internal customers, other functional support staff, and suppliers

- Experience independently leading the subcontracts portion of proposal efforts

- Must have the organizational skills to manage concurrent projects and possess the business acumen to appropriately prioritize actions and deal effectively with subcontract management issues of varying degrees of complexity

- Must be able to clearly communicate, including presenting status updates and issues to senior management, internal partners, and suppliers

- Able to obtain and maintain a US DoW security clearance

- Must be a US citizen

Preferred qualifications include:

- Experience supporting Department of Defense and Federal programs, programs of record, capture pursuits, proposal development for large government acquisitions in the Defense/Aerospace industry

- Working knowledge of CPSR compliance, NIST SP 800-171, and cyber/supplier readiness requirements

- Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, or similar process improvement methodologies

- CPSM, CPC, CFCM, ISM, APICS, PMI PMP, or other relevant professional certification

- Experience working with RF, electronic warfare, missile, radar, SATCOM, aviation, space, manufacturing, or advanced defense technology supply chains

- Experience building strong supplier relationships that can be leveraged to assist in future issue resolution

- Experience supervising or leading a team(s)

- Working experience with ERP systems, ideally Deltek Costpoint and other procurement systems (ex. ivalua)

The pay range for this role is $73,450.00 - $132,775.00.

## Skills

### Required
- FAR/DFARS
- subcontract management
- negotiation
- price analysis
- cost analysis
- supplier relationship management

### Nice to have
- Lean
- Six Sigma
- CPSM
- CPC
- CFCM
- ISM
- APICS
- PMI PMP
- Deltek Costpoint

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