The International Contracts Manager supports the Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) team focusing on international government and commercial customers. You are responsible for leading our effort to deliver a documented contracts management approach for international customers. This approach will be scalable as KGS expands to serve its international customer base. The person filling this role will have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about the mission, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to build and convey compelling international contract management strategy in a written context. The person filling this role will be familiar with relevant global government acquisition guidelines, have supported international government and commercial pursuits, and be experienced with relevant international government compliance requirements. The person filling this role will leverage their knowledge and skills to decide what actions to select stakeholders to determine the right goals and inform decisions. The person filling this role will take the lead on KGS specific international contract initiatives, while delivering independently (seeking and accepting direction when needed).In this role you will:• Leverage your familiarity with relevant global government acquisition guidelines and compliance requirements to lead development of contract management strategies applicable for international government and commercial customers• Manage and lead contract management efforts for international government and commercial customers• Develop and use deep industry background that enables you to engage and communicate effectively on a wide range of technical and business discussions with customers, partners, and internal Kuiper team members• Leverage your expertise and judgment to work through and document strategy for KGS international contract management, including relevant stakeholders.• Be a thought leader with respect to international contract management and process improvement• Identify and clear blockers with the right resources, escalating when appropriate• Demonstrate leadership and ability to navigate through complex problems, weighing various priorities and options, and managing multiple options and constraints• Communicate clearly and effectively to peers and leadership on the plans, status, and critical issues• Foster a constructive dialogue, harmonizes discordant views, and leads the resolution of contentious issues• Drives adoption of best practices for operational excellence• Accelerates progress by creating or optimizing multiple cross-team procedures.Key job responsibilitieso Support proposal development and negotiations for both prime contracts and subcontract opportunities.o Support contract execution through working with team members to release request for proposals/quotes, negotiation positions, documenting trade-off decision for leadership, tracking contractual deliverables, and process contract close-out procedures.o Develop international contract management team short term and long-term goals/objectives. o Establish and execute a plan to achieve the documented goals/objectives.o Working with finance partners, track metrics in regards to actual contractual spend and revenue; as well as forecasted financials; milestone completion; etc.o Establish, maintain and execute SOP and templates related to international contractsExport Control Requirement - This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. Citizen in order to comply with U.S. government-imposed requirements related to the nature of the work and/or where it will be performed.