SubContract Manager (Aerospace/Aviation)

Responsibilities: Establish, manage, and continuously update the sub contractual baseline from subcontract award to closeout, ensuring alignment with the main contract and project objectives.

Ensure that all subcontract agreements appropriately incorporate flow-down obligations from the prime contract while protecting the organization's commercial and contractual interests.

Ensure full contractual awareness across the project and procurement teams, enabling the correct application of subcontract obligations, rights, milestones, deliverables, and commercial terms.

Proactively anticipate and manage subcontract deviations through notices, change orders, amendments, claims, requests for information (RFIs), waivers, and other contractual mechanisms.

Identify, assess, and drive subcontract-related risks and opportunities in close collaboration with project, procurement, and commercial teams, including claim preparation, dispute avoidance, cost recovery, and value protection initiatives.

Oversee all contractual communications with subcontractors and suppliers, ensuring consistency, traceability, compliance, and alignment with project and contractual requirements.

Coordinate with the Legal and Contract Management teams when subcontract disputes arise, supporting fact-finding, documentation, evidence management, negotiation, and dispute resolution strategies.

Monitor subcontractor compliance with contractual obligations, including scope, schedule, quality, HSE, insurance, bonds, warranties, and reporting requirements, escalating issues proactively.

Ensure subcontract change management is effectively administered, including the evaluation, negotiation, documentation, and implementation of variations and commercial adjustments.

Manage subcontract closeout activities, including final account settlement, resolution of outstanding claims, completion of contractual deliverables, and archiving of contractual documentation. Identify opportunities to protect or enhance project financ