Senior Contracts Manager

Location: Suwanee, GA, US, 30024 Business Unit: RF Power & Test Solutions Posting Date: Oct 7, 2026 Job Description: About Us: Join AMETEK NSI-MI Technologies , a trailblazer in RF measurement innovation, transforming aerospace, defense, satellite, and wireless industries. Our groundbreaking solutions, from turnkey systems to precision components, are crafted to surpass expectations and drive success. If you're eager to make a significant impact and be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking team, join us at NSI-MI Technologies and elevate your professional journey. Job Summary: NSI-MI Technologies is seeking an experienced Senior Contracts Manager to lead the company's customer contracting and subcontracting activities across U.S. Government, defense prime contractor, commercial, and international customers. The Senior Contracts Manager will serve as the primary business partner for contract formation, terms and conditions, negotiations, contract administration, compliance, and contractual risk management. This position works closely with Sales, Program Management, Finance, Procurement, Operations, Legal, and other business functions to develop practical contracting strategies that protect NSI-MI while enabling timely business execution. The successful candidate must be able to identify contractual risk while also developing commercially reasonable solutions, negotiating effective fallback positions, and distinguishing matters that can be resolved through sound business judgment from those requiring leadership or legal escalation. Key Responsibilities: Lead contract activities from proposal and pre-award review through negotiation, award, administration, modification, and closeout. Draft, review, analyze, and negotiate contracts, purchase orders, subcontracts, master and overriding agreements, letter contracts, nondisclosure agreements, teaming agreements, and other commercial agreements. Lead negotiations of complex terms and conditions with U.S. Government customers, major aerospace and defense prime contractors, commercial customers, and international customers. Develop negotiation strategies, alternative language, and fallback positions that balance contractual protection, customer requirements, schedule, and business objectives. Identify significant contractual risks and determine when matters can be resolved within established authority or require escalation to business leadership, AMETEK Legal, or other approval authorities. Review RFQs, RFPs, solicitations, purchase orders, and awards to identify contractual requirements, assumptions, risks, inconsistencies, and required approvals. Ensure contracts accurately reflect negotiated scope, price, schedule, payment terms, acceptance criteria, warranty, intellectual property and data rights, limitation of liability, indemnification, termination rights, and change-control requirements. Manage contract amendments, modifications, changes, stop-work actions, claims, requests for equitable adjustment, terminations, and other post-award contractual matters. Maintain strong working knowledge of FAR, DFARS, commercial contracting practices, and applicable U.S. Government acquisition requirements. Analyze and implement contractual flowdowns and advise the business regarding commercial product and commercial service determinations, Truthful Cost or Pricing Data, Cost Accounting Standards, intellectual property, proprietary information, government property, cybersecurity, and other applicable requirements. Support assertions of commerciality, customer requests for price-reasonableness information, representations and certifications, and other government-contracting submissions. Apply NSI-MI and AMETEK contract review and approval requirements and prepare concise leadership approval packages for material contractual deviations. Maintain and use customer-specific agreements, approved deviations, and negotiated precedents to improve consistency and reduce negotiation cycle time. Support devel…

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