Responsibilities

The Contracts Manager owns the formation, negotiation, and administration of Hadrian’s agreements on both sides of the business: the agreements through which Hadrian sells to its customers, and the agreements through which it buys from its supply base. Hadrian’s contracting function is scaling alongside its factories. This seat will help design the workflows, systems, and controls that move agreements from intake to signature across sales and procurement, and is measured on the cycle time it removes.
Hadrian supplies precision components to the defense and aerospace primes and to commercial space and aviation customers. This seat negotiates and administers those customer agreements, including long-term supply agreements, master agreements, customer purchase orders, and Hadrian’s quote terms. Many arrive carrying FAR, DFARS, export control, and data rights requirements from the prime contract. The seat confirms Hadrian can perform them and flows them correctly
Scaling Hadrian’s manufacturing footprint requires the purchase of machine tools, automation cells, raw material, castings and forgings, outside processing, tooling, and software. This seat owns Hadrian’s purchase order terms and the category addenda supporting them, adjudicates supplier markups, and serves as the contracts partner to Supply Chain and Procurement into its supply base.
Own assigned customer and supplier agreements from intake through closeout: pre-award review, negotiation, award, acceptance, performance, modification, renewal, and closeout. Administer Hadrian’s subcontracts under prime contractor terms. Track deliverables, milestones, acceptance, and notice dates against each contract, and escalate noncompliance before it becomes a dispute.
Draft, revise, and interpret long-term supply agreements, master agreements, subcontracts, purchase orders, quote terms, non-disclosure agreements, statements of work, amendments, and change orders. Produce clear, defensible language on Hadrian’s paper and precise redlines on the counterparty’s.
Digest the FAR, DFARS, and customer-specific clauses the primes flow down to Hadrian through customer agreements and purchase orders. Determine which obligations Hadrian must carry, which must flow to its suppliers, and which do not apply. Apply them to the correct vendor agreements order by order and maintain the record of which clauses attached where. Challenge flowdowns that exceed what the prime contract requires or what a commercial supplier should reasonably accept.
Draft and administer Hadrian’s terms for subcontracts, suppliers, and capital equipment, including acceptance, warranty, title and risk of loss, and milestone payment structures. Verify that the correct Hadrian terms and category addenda attach to every order, screen order-face fields for the completeness downstream controls depend on, and confirm order terms do not conflict with the governing master agreement
Review customer terms, purchase orders, and long-term agreements from the primes against Hadrian’s established positions, and identify the pricing, liability, intellectual property, and data rights terms that require escalation. Adjudicate markups returned against Hadrian’s purchase order and quote terms under the playbook, and determine acceptance within delegated authority. Prepare the response setting out Hadrian’s position in terms the counterparty can act on.
Own the portfolio end to end across customers, suppliers, and prospective partners. Apply the review checklist to every inbound form, issue Hadrian’s standard redline, and distribute Hadrian’s form on request. Determine whether a mutual or unilateral instrument is appropriate and which party is protected. Approve deviations within the playbook, negotiate to closure, and track expirations.
Maintain the contract record in accordance with company and regulatory requirements. Define and enforce the contract file standard and naming conventions, own the central repository, and administer records retention. Drive discovery and reconciliation of legacy agreements to completion.
Own the contract lifecycle platform and serve as first-line support for its users. Build and maintain workflows, approval routing, templates, and form fields, and map approval chains to the delegation of authority. Direct the implementation partner through user acceptance testing and go-live. Own the enhancement backlog, integrations, permissions, and access reviews, and enforce the export control handling gate before any upload.

Qualification

5+ years in contract managementThe candidate interprets legal languageExceptional written work productWhat Will Set You Apart

Required

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, including full lifecycle responsibility for customer and supplier agreements personally negotiated and administered.
Experience negotiating from the supplier’s side of the table with prime contractors or major OEMs, including long-term supply agreements, customer terms and purchase orders, and the pricing, delivery, and liability commitments behind them
Substantial experience administering purchase orders, supplier terms, and subcontracts in a manufacturing, industrial, or hardware environment, including capital equipment or major asset purchases and the acceptance, installation, and milestone payment structures behind them.
Working command of the FAR and DFARS clauses primes flow down to their suppliers. The candidate understands how prime-tier subcontracts and purchase orders are formed, administered, and modified, and how the prime’s contract type shapes the terms it flows down.
Demonstrated record of negotiating complex agreements to closure across price, terms, schedule, and risk allocation. The candidate has authored language issued under their organization’s name, not solely revised the work of others, across supply agreements, master agreements, basic ordering agreements, subcontracts, purchase orders, non-disclosure agreements, change orders, and license agreements.
A demonstrated record of building contracting infrastructure rather than inheriting it. The candidate has built or materially improved a playbook, position set, or clause library, established workflows and an intake process, and achieved measurable reduction in contract cycle time on both the sales and procurement sides.
Hands-on ownership of a contract lifecycle management system as an administrator, including workflow configuration, templates, permissions, and reporting, and advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel.
The candidate interprets legal language, assesses risk, and translates contractual requirements into guidance that engineering, program, and operations teams can act upon. The candidate has operated with delegated authority and recognizes when a matter falls outside the playbook.
Exceptional written work product. The record created in this seat is subject to customer audit, government review, and litigation, and a redline issued from it constitutes Hadrian’s position until corrected.
Exceptional organizational discipline under volume, comfort with ambiguity, and a bias toward decision.
What Will Set You Apart

Contracts Manager at Hadrian Automation · LumiJobs

Contracts Manager

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