Associate Contracts Manager

About the role

ICF is seeking an experienced Associate Contracts Manager (Supervisory) to be a people manager and perform contract management functions in the growing and dynamic Environment & Planning group with a broad client base in state, local, and commercial contracts, with occasional Federal contracts. The ideal candidate will have management experience, a great attitude, a keen eye for detail, be flexible, and willing to think “outside the box”. He/she must be comfortable with 1) customer interaction, 2) working with geographically diverse internal/external customers and management, 3) have extensive experience independently leading the development of and responsibility for business/price proposals, 4) handling a large volume of transactions, 5) strong negotiation skills; and 6) managing junior contracts personnel. The candidate will have the opportunity to work with senior management in the department as well as company-wide leadership teams.

Responsibilities

• Ability to independently handle multiple proposals negotiations, contract awards and administration of the resultant contracts in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience negotiating MSAs, NDAs, Teaming Agreements, Scopes of Work, and other contractual documents.
• Establish effective working relationships with business partners and contract team members.
• Understands both strategic and operational goals and translates them into effective contracting practices.
• Independently develops business/price volumes to address requirements and mitigates risk consistent with sound business practices, company policies, and government regulations.
• Proactively assesses critical contract obligations and contract provisions, to include gaps and risks.
• Advises on contract revisions and conduct negotiations to better meet the needs of the Client and ICF.
• Notifies management and appropriate Program Management of potential non-compliance and other problems that could have an adverse impact on the company, specifically advising on contractual rights and obligations, interpreting terms and conditions and government regulations.
• Leads the proper coordination of various types of agreements and other contract/legal documents with other corporate functions, such as accounting, legal, tax, etc.
• Manages and reviews work products in an ever-changing environment, supporting activities in diverse markets.
• Maintains own portfolio of active projects.
• Delegates workload among assigned team members to ensure effective and efficient support to proposal and program teams.
• Leads business volume reviews to ensure team’s compliance with solicitation requirements and corporate policies.
• Provides leadership and oversight of assigned team members to develop negotiation, cost/price proposal and contract administration skills and build upon skillsets of the team to ensure growth and development of each individual member.
• Ensures proactive maintenance of contracts documentation consistent with established ICF practices.
• Ability to independently handle multiple priorities effectively.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in contracts administration
• 0-1 year of leadership/supervisory experience
• 2+ years of experience with a mix of State and Local and/or Commercial contract arrangements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Experience working with a wide range of clients (State and Local, Commercial, U.S. Government)
• CFCM and/or CPCM
• 1+ leading and writing business/price volume proposals

Skills

• Excellent oral and written communications
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to multi-task in a dynamic environment
• Extensive experience and skills with various computer programs required (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint)