Senior Manager, Contracts Operations

Peraton is seeking a strategic, results-driven Sr. Manager, Contract Operations to lead critical initiatives within our contract operations team. This is not a tactical execution role-we are looking for a forward-thinking leader with advanced critical thinking, strong contracts management, project management, and analytical capabilities who will support the Vice President of Contract Operations to align contract operations with Peraton's strategic growth, program execution, contractual compliance and continued technology modernization objectives.

Leadership and Accountability

Leverages both contracts functional and data analytics expertise to provide alignment and cohesion in project delivery to achieve departmental objectives.
• Allocates and ensures accountability of resources accordingly to solve complex operational problems and fulfill strategic initiatives; ensuring direct reports are delivering results that consistently meet or exceed corporate expectations.
• Mentor team members responsible for data integrity, process governance, and reporting to foster critical thinking, analytics-centered decision-making, and professional maturity.
• Leverage business intelligence tools to analyze and govern key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to monitor workflow efficiency, compliance, and ensure alignment with corporate objectives.

Strategic Guidance and Decision-Making

• Apply a deep understanding of key business drivers and internal/external operational factors to identify opportunities for additional impact and mitigation of operational risk.

• Support senior leadership by offering actionable recommendations based on operational insights and strategic data analysis.
• Proactively engage with internal leadership to ensure strong alignment between the department's activities and corporate initiatives. Build trusted relationships and collaborate effectively with internal and external partners, vendors, customers, and other stakeholders to foster strategic outcomes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholder to facilitate clear communications to support contracts business enablement' goals and expectations, ensuring mutual alignment.

Process Optimization & Governance

• Review, measure and assess policy and process compliance standards to ensure all contracts-related processes align with government contracting regulations, internal controls, and workflow best practices.
• Standardize and continuously refine workflows for managing sell-side contracts, ensuring they meet business needs while maintaining full compliance (e.g., workflows for lifecycle approvals, closeouts, and audit readiness).
• Collaborate with the Sr. Product Manager to enhance contracts lifecycle management (CLM) tools and ensure they meet functional business process requirements, such as seamless approvals, user-friendly interfaces, and data capture for compliance reporting.
• Drive adoption of automation features to eliminate inefficiencies and scale operations to handle increasing complexity.
• Conduct regular audits to assess process adherence, identify gaps, and implement corrective actions.

Strategic Analytics & Business Intelligence

• Assist the Vice President of Contract Operations in building organizational confidence in BI tools by ensuring that analytics and dashboards are supported by high-quality, reliable data to enable informed decision-making.

• Lead efforts to improve the accuracy, reliability, and alignment of key data sources that drive analytics insights through robust data governance frameworks.
• Maintain and improve upon current analytics strategies to transform operational data into actionable insights, focusing on improving efficiency, optimizing pursuit of strategic opportunities, supporting strategic and compliant program execution and optimizing client relationship management using advanced analytics.

• Collaborate with the Sr. Product Manager and data/analytics teams to ensure that tools and operational workflows are aligned with governance and business objectives. Collaborate across functions and departments to address and resolve cross-organizational issues that impede progress or compliance with a goal of tying operational processes and analytics to broader business priorities.

• Provide functional requirements and governance standards to guide BI development efforts. Lead the use of business intelligence tools to monitor executive-facing dashboards, operational metrics, and historical trends.
• Serve as the data steward for Contract Operations, ensuring processes consistently produce clean, accurate, and complete data that meets regulatory and contractual reporting needs.
• Serve as a functional subject matter expert across all contracts systems & analytics workflows, providing insightful feedback or contributing to high-priority projects; other duties as assigned.

Education & Experience:

• • Minimum 12 years of experience in Contracts Management, Subcontracts Management, Government Compliance, Operations Management, or Legal Operations, ideally within a government contractor environment.
  • At least 7 years of leadership experience, including roles with responsibility for managing multiple teams or managers across interrelated functions.
  • Minimum 2 years of experience working with Contracts Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools, such as Icertis, SAP Ariba, Cobblestone, or similar platforms.
  • Preferred to have a minimum of 2 years of experience with Business Intelligence (BI) tools, such as Tableau, Power BI, or Alteryx.

Preferred Qualifications

• Cradle-to-grave contracts management experience required to appropriately govern and manage processes and data within contracts' ecosystem.
• Certifications such as CPCM (Certified Professional Contracts Manager), CFCM (Certified Federal Contracts Manager), CBIP (Certified Business Intelligence Professional), or PMP (Project Management Professional).

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.