SMX is looking for a Senior Director of Contracts to lead its Contracts Organization with strategic vision and operational excellence. This role is responsible for overseeing the full contract lifecycle, from initiation to closeout, while ensuring compliance, mitigating risk, driving customer engagement, and leading high-stakes negotiations that align contractual outcomes with SMX’s broader business objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Develops and provides strategy, vision and direction to multiple functions. Implements companywide policies and practices. Provides input to executive management. Accountable for function financial results.
- Works consistently with abstract ideas or situations across functional areas of the business. Through assessment of intangible variables, identifies and evaluates fundamental issues, providing strategy and direction for multiple functional areas. Anticipates factors that could influence strategies and company position in the market.
- Establishes and develops broader company strategy and translates into multi-functional objectives. This includes leading and conducting customer engagement with Acquisition professionals, Contracting Officers and their management, GSA officials, industry peers, etc.
- Interacts with internal and external executive level management, requiring negotiation of extremely critical matters. Influences policymaking and strategy based on communication strategies and persuasion skills.
- Partners with executive and senior leadership teams (ELT/SLT) for the function to provide cohesive direction towards company goals. Recognized as an influential leader.
- Leads activities of one or more functional areas, through subordinate directors / managers who have overall responsibility for the successful operation of assigned areas. Oversees team(s) to develop new methods and solve company-wide matters.
Required Skills/Experience
- Prior experience as a Director of Contracts or above
Desired Skills/Experience
- Prior experience as a Director of Contracts or above at a company with annual revenues exceeding $1 Billion
Application Deadline: September 02 , 2025
Career Level: M06AFunding: Firm Funded The SMX salary determination process takes into account a number of factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories, relevant prior work experience, specific skills, education and certifications. At SMX, one of our Core Values is to Invest in Our People so we offer a competitive mix of compensation, learning & development opportunities, and benefits. Some key components of our robust benefits include health insurance, paid leave, and retirement.The proposed salary for this position is:$174,800—$233,100 USDAt SMX®, we are a team of technical and domain experts dedicated to enabling your mission.
From priority national security initiatives for the DoD to highly assured and compliant solutions for healthcare, we understand that digital transformation is key to your future success.We share your vision for the future and strive to accelerate your impact on the world. We bring both cutting edge technology and an expansive view of what’s possible to every engagement. Our delivery model and unique approaches harness our deep technical and domain knowledge, providing forward-looking insights and practical solutions to power secure mission acceleration.SMX is an Equal Opportunity employer including disabilities and veterans.Selected applicant may be subject to a background investigation and/or education verification.
