Senior Contracts Analyst

Our customer is looking for a Senior Contracts Analyst to provide cradletograve contract management of a portfolio of U.S. Government prime and subcontracts with various customers. This is a hybrid position requiring inoffice support 2 to 3 days/week in either Reston VA or Cambridge MA

Our team is looking for a government contracts professional to support our Electronic Systems business area.

The Senior Contracts Analyst role provides the opportunity to support proposal development and to administer contracts throughout the contract lifecycle while ensuring adherence to internal policy and compliance with regulations.

The successful candidate will be a key member of the contract administration team who is complianceoriented experienced in the identification and mitigation of risk adept at relationship building and highly organized.

Specific Responsibilities include:

• Proposal support including Solicitation review active participation in gate reviews basis of estimate (BOE) development and authoring of proposal conditions and assumptions
• Proposal submission and negotiation including compliance with Truthful Cost or Pricing requirements.
• Contract review redlining and negotiation.
• Ability to serve as the primary point of contact on large research to production and/or production contracts.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for internal and external customers regarding contract matters.
• Maintain contract files in accordance with internal guidelines.
• Support and collaborate with internal stakeholders to proactively anticipate business needs and develop sound recommendations for compliant solutions.
• Ability and willingness to mentor junior Contracts Administrators
• Support other special projects and/or represent the department on crossfunctional teams as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree and 8 years of DoD contracting experience in a research and development environment with both cost reimbursement and fixedpriced contract types
• Experience managing B2B contracts such as in a subcontractor to the prime contractor including negotiation of terms.
• Expertise in full contract lifecycle management including proposal support negotiation contract administration and closeout.
• Excellent writing skills with the ability to produce clear concise and accurate correspondence. A writing sample may be required as part of the application process.
• Ability to demonstrate working knowledge and understanding of the FAR and DFARS
• Strong critical thinking communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence positive business outcomes.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills necessary for working in a crossfunctional team environment and ability to develop effective relationships with internal and external customers.
• Ability to identify risk and develop mitigation recommendations.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite especially Word Excel PowerPoint and Outlook as well as Customers Portals (PIEE Exostar) and ERP Applications
• DoD Secret clearance

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Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Earned Value Management Systems
• MBA Juris Doctor or other advanced degree
• DoD Top Secret clearance
• Professional Certifications (e.g. CFCM CPCM etc)

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Benefits: and nbsp;120000 $140000 and nbsp;Plus an excellent benefits package

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Applicants must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer.

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Staff Smart Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin age protected veteran status genetic information disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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About Us and nbsp;:

Since 2008 Staff Smart Inc has served as a trusted talent solutions partner to businesses by providing flexible scalable technical and amp; engineering workforce solutions. These include project consulting contracttohire direct hire and retained executive search. Staff Smart Inc. strategies are deployed across diverse industries and include Fortune 500 startups and government agencies. Based in San Diego CA we have the national reach industry expertise and capability to deliver on your critical talent needs. Staff Smart Inc is a proud and nbsp;WBENC certified womanowned business.

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