Contracts Manager

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR electronic warfare secure communications aerial refuelling special air missions aerial firefighting and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing building and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service spanning people finance platform operations legal and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas EMEA and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects not just equipment. By owning the full stack from the lab to the field we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. Its a fast-moving intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility work on problems that matter and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington DC with facilities across the United States the United Kingdom as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

GroupOverview

Metrea is actively building its presence in Australia as part of a deliberate globally coordinated expansion into the Asia-Pacific region. Our Asia-Pacific Market Group headquartered in Brisbane with an additional office in Perth is the enterprises dedicated regional interface connecting Australias national security community with Metreas full suite of capabilities across three core domains: Aerospace Electromagnetic & Cyber and Digital & Synthetic. Metrea is now bringing that same depth of mission expertise and proven operating model to Australia.

Underpinning these capabilities is a global network of Support Groups spanning people finance platform operations legal and engagement ensuring that as we grow in Australia and AIPAC we do so with the full weight of an established global enterprise behind us.

Metreas solutions are built for elegance: effective efficient and evolving enabling our partners to scale capacity and achieve asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Position Summary

As the Senior Contracts Manager you will have significant experience in a wide range of Australian Government and Defence contracts as well as commercial and supply chain contracts with an emphasis on aviation vendors and suppliers. The role will include the negotiation drafting and closing of a wide variety of vendors and other commercial contracts and you will be expected to work closely with the Program Manager and Senior Legal Counsel in Australia as well as Head of People and other support function as Metrea works to establish its business in Australia and AIPAC.

Broad general experience with all types of aviation and commercial contracts related intellectual property issues including protection of enterprise IP as well as export control related to this work is required. You will also ideally have a general understanding of the use of consultants and service providers agreements and experience supporting companies focused on cutting edge technologies including software development digital innovation and infrastructure is also highly desired.

What Youll Do

In this role you will be required to build relationships with the customer independently and in conjunction with the Program Manager.

Being comfortable with multiple shifting sometimes competing priorities is fundamental within the LCC (Legal Compliance and Commercial) team. This is also a team which looks to support each other through regular interaction with teammates and with the enterprise. Being involved in the business to understand developing contractual risks and provide sound business counsel is critical to the LCC teams success.

What You Bring

• Hold a degree from an accredited university in Business finance or other related field or relevant work experience
• Deep experience with negotiating and drafting Australian government and defence contracts vendor contracts supplier terms and conditions codes of conduct leases and creating framework for regular negotiation of such contracts and wording
• Experience in negotiating and drafting consultant agreements and other related service-related agreements
• Aviation and Defence experience
• Experience with other countries in the AIPAC region
• Experience with negotiating and enforcing in Australia and AIPAC and foreign jurisdictions and supporting global enterprises
• Seasoned commercial awareness
• Experience interacting and counseling senior business leaders

In addition to the above any of the following would be beneficial:

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• Generous Annual Leave
• Annual incentive plan
• Paid parental leave
• Life and TPD Insurance
• Income Protection Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Novated Car Leasing

WorkAuthorization/SecurityClearance

Ability to obtain and maintain an AGSVA Security Clearance.

Inclusion & Diversity

We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgroundsexperiencesand perspectives. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and make hiring decisions based on capability potential and alignment with our values. If yourequire any adjustments throughout the recruitment process please let us know.

Travel

Domestic and International Travel required.