Senior Contracts Manager

Job description

Position Summary: The Contracts Manager provides advice and support to proposal teams, operations leadership and senior management. They are responsible for all aspects of contracting from pre-award support, contract negotiation and award, resolution of post-award issues and support of close-out. Specific responsibilities for this position include: - Developing a clear understanding of customer and program requirements and providing advice and support to proposal teams to ensure compliance with request-for-proposal or customer guidelines, applicable regulations and University policies. - Thoroughly review solicitations and perform pricing related analysis, lead and develop the proposal cost/price strategy, author the cost and business volume, and ensure the cost proposal is of the highest quality prior to submission. - Review terms and conditions to address provisions and risks of financial terms, acceptance criteria, delivery requirements, warranties, intellectual property, termination provisions, indemnification and all other potential risk areas and recommend risk mitigation strategies - Recommend changes, additions, and deletions to the contract structure to ensure accurate ref...