Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refuelling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.
At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.
Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Metrea is actively building its presence in Australia as part of a deliberate, globally coordinated expansion into the Asia-Pacific region. Our Asia-Pacific Market Group, headquartered in Brisbane with an additional office in Perth, is the enterprise's dedicated regional interface — connecting Australia's national security community with Metrea's full suite of capabilities across three core domains: Aerospace, Electromagnetic & Cyber, and Digital & Synthetic. Metrea is now bringing that same depth of mission expertise and proven operating model to Australia.
Underpinning these capabilities is a global network of Support Groups spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement — ensuring that as we grow in Australia and AIPAC, we do so with the full weight of an established global enterprise behind us.
Metrea's solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving — enabling our partners to scale capacity and achieve asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
As the Senior Contracts Manager, you will have significant experience in a wide range of Australian Government and Defence contracts as well as commercial and supply chain contracts with an emphasis on aviation vendors and suppliers. The role will include the negotiation, drafting, and closing of a wide variety of vendors and other commercial contracts and you will be expected to work closely with the Program Manager and Senior Legal Counsel in Australia as well as Head of People and other support function as Metrea works to establish its business in Australia and AIPAC.
Broad general experience with all types of aviation and commercial contracts, related intellectual property issues including protection of enterprise IP as well as export control related to this work is required. You will also ideally have a general understanding of the use of consultants and service providers agreements and experience supporting companies focused on cutting edge technologies including software development, digital innovation, and infrastructure is also highly desired.
In this role you will be required to build relationships with the customer independently and in conjunction with the Program Manager.
Being comfortable with multiple shifting, sometimes competing, priorities is fundamental within the LCC (Legal, Compliance and Commercial) team. This is also a team which looks to support each other through regular interaction with teammates and with the enterprise. Being involved in the business to understand developing contractual risks and provide sound business counsel is critical to the LCC team’s success.
- Hold a degree from an accredited university in Business, finance or other related field or relevant work experience
- Deep experience with negotiating and drafting Australian government and defence contracts, vendor contracts, supplier terms and conditions, codes of conduct, leases, and creating framework for regular negotiation of such contracts and wording
- Experience in negotiating and drafting consultant agreements and other related service-related agreements
- Aviation and Defence experience
- Experience with other countries in the AIPAC region
- Experience with negotiating and enforcing in Australia and AIPAC and foreign jurisdictions and supporting global enterprises
- Seasoned commercial awareness
- Experience interacting and counseling senior business leaders
In addition to the above, any of the following would be beneficial:
- Comfortable working with ambiguity in a fluid environment seeking to address business concerns and goals rather than just being “right”
- General knowledge of Export Control for US, UK and International
- Highly developed sense of judgment and maturity
- Proven ability to work effectively in, and leverage a highly collaborative, matrixed environment to achieve project ends
- Agile with ability to shift priorities as needed working with wide diversity of individual capability areas and individuals
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with external suppliers and manage the engagement process with such service providers when required
- Ability to exercise a high level of diligence, even under time pressure
- Intellectually curious, with strong critical thinking & analytical skills and attention to detail
- Private Health Insurance
- Generous Annual Leave
- Annual incentive plan
- Paid parental leave
- Life and TPD Insurance
- Income Protection Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Novated Car Leasing
Ability to obtain and maintain an AGSVA Security Clearance.
We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and make hiring decisions based on capability, potential and alignment with our values. If you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please let us know.
Domestic and International Travel required.
At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.
Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.
