Federal Government Contracts Manager

Our client, a progressive Silicon Valley tech company, would like to hire a highly skilled federal government contracts manager with FAR/DFAR expertise.

Reporting to the Head of Legal you manage all the contracts for the government business.

• You will serve as primary interface for legal and risk management considerations
• Partner cross-functionally across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Operations to drive program success
• Protect company intellectual property within executed engagements
• Lead prime & subcontractor proposal compliance reviews
• Prepare contract compliance documentation including price analyses, source justifications, commercial assertions, negotiation memos, data rights assertions
• Use in-depth knowledge of the FAR and DFARS to manage the government contracts process, including supporting complex proposal negotiations
• Lead the creation and implementation of enterprise-wide organisational conflict of interest avoidance & mitigation planning activities
• Develop legal operations processes, programs and tools to support the legal team's effective and efficient delivery of services.

Requires

• University Degree.
• Minimum 5 years federal government contract management experience.
• Security Clearance of Secret Level or higher.
• Ability to review solicitations, proposals, contracts, contract modifications, teaming
• agreements, and subcontracts to assess risk and provide solutions and recommended
• actions
• Excellent working knowledge of compliance regulations such as those found in the FAR,
• DFARS, and ITAR and their pertinence to contractual thresholds and mandatory flow-down
• requirements
• Experience in negotiating terms, pricing, and contract requirements in proposals to obtain
• contract awards
• Knowledge of contract administration, contract funding, timekeeping, representations and
• certifications, records retention, and reporting for the life cycle of a contract