{"id":2570673,"url":"https://alion.io/job/aerovironment-subcontracts-manager","title":"Subcontracts Manager","company":{"id":176366,"name":"AeroVironment","domain":"avinc.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/aerovironment","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":78,"open_postings":39,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.897,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":30,"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"Legal","role_family":"Legal","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Dayton, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":126500,"max":192750,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":192750},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-14T22:52:45Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-14","last_verified_at":"2026-10-15T03:24:14Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Worker Type\nRegularJob Description\nSummary\nThe Subcontracts Manager will lead a team of 2-3 subcontract professionals and serve as the primary interface between Program Management, Subcontracts, Contracts, Engineering, Finance, Quality, Supply Chain, and subcontractors. This position is responsible for managing the full lifecycle of subcontracts, including proposal development, source selection, negotiations, award, execution, performance management, changes, and closeout. The Subcontracts Manager will develop subcontracting strategies aligned with the overall program plan, company policies, and applicable FAR/DFARS requirements.\nThe Subcontracts Manager will manage subcontract baselines during the proposal phase to ensure scope, budget, capacity, risk management, delivery requirements, and payment terms are aligned with program needs. The position will evaluate potential sources for selection, negotiate and award subcontracts, and monitor subcontractor performance to ensure cost, schedule, technical, quality, delivery, and contractual requirements are met.\nPosition Responsibilities\nLead, mentor, and develop a team of 2-3 subcontract professionals, including workload planning, prioritization, performance management, and professional development.\nDevelop and execute subcontracting strategies aligned with program objectives, company policies, and applicable FAR/DFARS requirements.\nManage the full subcontract lifecycle from proposal development and source selection through award, execution, modifications, performance management, and closeout.\nSupport and monitor technical performance baselines while comparing key subcontract technical performance measures, assessing execution status, and taking appropriate action to maintain conformance with the baseline.\nCommunicate, monitor, and promptly resolve issues across all functional elements within the program, including the supplier.\nManage and balance communications with stakeholders through organized and disciplined processes, ensuring subcontract information is defined, collected, shared, understood, stored, and retrieved in a manner that effectively meets subcontract and stakeholder needs while protecting the company’s contractual rights.\nEffectively plan, define, establish, communicate, monitor, and control subcontractor scope to ensure that all required work, and only the required work, is performed.\nAnalyze subcontractor changes and develop alternatives that balance technical, cost, schedule, quality, and contractual requirements.\nTrack subcontractor performance, including technical reviews, delivery milestones, quality performance, corrective actions, and key performance indicators.\nMonitor subcontractor cost performance against budget and Estimates at Completion to ensure financial performance remains on target.\nProvide financial control and maintenance of subcontract budgets, including customer funding, cost analysis, Earned Value Management metrics, and Integrated Program Management Data and Analysis Report evaluation, as applicable.\nLead subcontractor program reviews and performance reviews, including the development of agendas, briefing materials, action items, and recovery plans.\nAdhere to subcontract scope and manage changes through established change-control and control-board activities.\nAddress subcontract uncertainty through an organized and analytical, forward-looking approach that identifies risks and opportunities, determines appropriate handling plans, and manages and communicates risks and opportunities throughout the subcontract lifecycle.\nPrepare executive-level briefings and develop mechanisms for monitoring subcontractor progress, identifying risks, supporting intervention, and resolving issues with functional leads, business management, program leadership, and customers.\nInterpret supplier schedules to understand impacts on program schedules, milestones, critical-path activities, and customer commitments.\nDevelop, implement, and maintain subcontract execution plans, supplier management plans, and performance-monitoring processes.\nDevelop and maintain Requests for Proposals, including subcontractor sourcing and selection, evaluation criteria, risk analysis, and cost and price analysis.\nReview supplier proposal responses, including technical evaluations, supplier Basis of Estimates, pricing, schedules, risks, and overall proposal quality.\nSupport compliant source selections, negotiations, subcontract awards, and subcontract modifications.\nCoordinate with Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, and Program Management to monitor supplier technical performance, qualification activities, production readiness, inspections, testing, delivery, and acceptance requirements.\nCommunicate and escalate subcontractor performance issues, including cost, schedule, technical, quality, delivery, compliance, and contractual concerns.\nDevelop and monitor corrective-action plans, recovery plans, and other intervention plans for subcontractors that are not meeting requirements.\nCultivate productive subcontractor relationships while maintaining appropriate contractual discipline and protecting company interests.\nIdentify, allocate, and manage resources within the subcontract management team and broader cross-functional program organization.\nIdentify opportunities to improve subcontract processes, reduce risk, improve performance, and support organizational and program objectives.\nBasic Qualifications (Required Skills & Experience)\nBachelor’s Degree and 10 years of experience supporting U.S. Government contracts and customers and/or program management, supply chain management, proposals, procurement, contracts, or subcontract management.\nDemonstrated experience managing the full lifecycle of subcontracts, from proposal development and source selection through award, execution, modifications, performance management, and closeout.\nActive Secret clearance or ability to obtain one and ability to obtain and maintain SAP access, if required for the assigned program.\nExperience managing subcontract or program cost, schedule, technical, quality, and contractual requirements.\nExperience leading teams and/or organizations to achieve a common goal as a results-driven leader.\nExperience with global supply chain, supplier management, and supplier quality, with the ability to identify, select, direct, and manage subcontract and supply-chain elements in a manner that supports program goals and company strategy.\nExperience managing program or subcontract financials, including customer funding, budgets, Estimates at Completion, invoices, and cost analysis.\nExperience with subcontractor sourcing, compliant source selection, proposal evaluation, Basis of Estimate review, cost and price analysis, negotiations, and subcontract award.\nExperience managing supplier or subcontractor risks, opportunities, corrective actions, recovery plans, and performance issues.\nExperience working cross-functionally with Program Management, Contracts, Engineering, Finance, Quality, Supply Chain, and subcontractor organizations.\nExperience with capture execution, compliant source selection, negotiations, and proposals.\nStrong written, verbal, analytical, negotiation, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities, work independently, make sound business decisions, and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.\nOther Qualifications & Desired Competencies\nExperience managing subcontracts supporting aerospace, defense, advanced technology, or other complex U.S. Government programs.\nExperience recognizing and responding to program needs in order to develop additional business opportunities that support organizational objectives.\nExperience identifying, coordinating, and controlling management activities and processes that integrate program interdependencies throughout their lifecycle to achieve successful program completion.\nExperience defining proposal strategy, leading proposal teams, analyzing and shaping Requests for Proposals, and producing and delivering winning proposals.\nExperience planning and executing a project quality-management system that satisfies quality requirements and emphasizes prevention, continuous improvement, and value creation.\nExperience defining, documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing, and confirming requirements throughout the program and subcontract lifecycle.\nExperience addressing program or subcontract uncertainty through an organized and analytical, forward-looking approach that identifies risks and opportunities, determines appropriate handling plans, and manages and communicates effectively throughout the lifecycle.\nExperience defining, establishing, communicating, monitoring, and controlling scope to ensure that all required work, and only the required work, is performed.\nExperience applying technical performance baselines to monitor and compare key technical performance measures, assess program and product status, and take appropriate action to maintain conformance with the baseline.\nExperience with Earned Value Management, Integrated Program Management Data and Analysis Report, supplier performance metrics, or other program financial-management processes.\nExperience leading supplier program reviews, technical reviews, production-readiness activities, corrective-action reviews, and recovery efforts.\nExperience with continuous process improvement and the development of preventative quality and supplier-management processes.\nPhysical Demands\nAbility to work in an office environment (Constant)\nRequired to sit and stand for long periods; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard (Frequent)\nWork Location\nHybrid position requiring three days per week in the office.\nA 5/40 work schedule is preferred.\nA 9/80 work schedule may be available based on business and program requirements.\nNo travel is required for this position.\nClearance Level\nNo ClearanceThe salary range for this role is:\n$126,500 - $192,750AeroVironment considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the location, the role and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, education/training, and key skills.\nITAR Requirement:\nThis position requires access to information that is subject to compliance with the International Traffic Arms Regulations (“ITAR”) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”). In order to comply with the requirements of the ITAR and/or the EAR, applicants must qualify as a U.S. person under the ITAR and the EAR, or a person to be approved for an export license by the governing agency whose technology comes under its jurisdiction. Please understand that any job offer that requires approval of an export license will be conditional on AeroVironment’s determination that it will be able to obtain an export license in a time frame consistent with AeroVironment’s business requirements. A “U.S. person” according to the ITAR definition is a U.S. citizen, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), or protected individual such as a refugee or asylee. See 22 CFR § 120.15. Some positions will require current U.S. Citizenship due to contract requirements.\nBenefits: AV offers an excellent benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401K with company matching, a 9/80 work schedule and a paid holiday shutdown. For more information about our company benefit offerings please visit: http://www.avinc.com/myavbenefits.\nWe also encourage you to review our company website at http://www.avinc.com to learn more about us.\nPrincipals only need apply. NO agencies please.\nAbout AV:\nAV isn’t for everyone. We hire the curious, the relentless, the mission-obsessed. The best of the best.\nWe don’t just build defense technology-we redefine what’s possible. As the premier autonomous systems company in the U.S., AV delivers breakthrough capabilities across air, land, sea, space, and cyber. 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