Director of Contracts

Responsibilities

• Own Forterra’s contracts function, setting strategy, standards, and scalable processes.
• Structure and execute government awards and expand existing contracts.
• Advise Business Development, Proposal, and Engineering teams on acquisition strategy, contract vehicles, and instruments.
• Manage relationships with contracting officers, agreements officers, and government procurement offices.
• Lead the acquisition lifecycle, including proposal and pricing-volume review, negotiations, award administration, performance, closeout, and compliance.
• Negotiate terms, data rights, and intellectual property; resolve issues and requests for equitable adjustment; identify risks and mitigations.
• Build and manage the subcontract and teaming portfolio, including NDAs, teaming agreements, subcontracts, and flow-downs.
• Represent Contracts with vendors, primes, partners, engineers, executives, and customers.
• Build systems, templates, and processes to scale the contracts function.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of federal contracting or acquisition experience in government, industry, or both.
• Command of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), including contract types, competitive procedures, and cost and price analysis.
• Working knowledge of government data rights and intellectual property under DFARS 252.227, with the ability to negotiate them.
• Experience independently leading negotiations and administering awards through performance and closeout.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Government-side acquisition experience, particularly as a contracting or agreements officer with a warrant.
• Experience with Other Transactions under 10 U.S.C. 4021 and 4022 and Commercial Solutions Openings.
• Experience at a defense innovation organization such as DIU, AFWERX, ONR, DARPA, or a service innovation unit.
• DAWIA certification in Contracting or Program Management.
• Graduate degree in contract management, acquisition, business, or law.
• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Experience with non-traditional defense contractors and commercial technology companies, including ATO and FCL processes.
• Experience building or scaling a contracts function at a high-growth company.

Compensation

• Salary range: $180,000–$220,000 USD annually.
• Equity may be included as part of the overall compensation package.
• Benefits include healthcare, life and disability insurance, paid holidays and PTO, paid parental leave, tuition or professional development reimbursement, and a 401(k) with company match.