Job Title: Senior Specialist, Contracts
Job ID: 19566
Job Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Work Schedule: 9/80
Job Description:
This position is responsible for conducting proposal preparation, pre-contract data collection, and administering, extending, negotiating and terminating standard and nonstandard government contracts.
Essential Functions:
- Preparing, negotiating, and administering a large volume of contracts of various types for a variety of customers.
- Ensuring contract acquisition and fulfillment in accordance with company policies, legal requirements, customer specifications, FAR, DFAR and ITAR.
- Reviewing RFQs; preparing quotes including change proposals; performing associated negotiation and defining activities.
- Performing risk assessment of quotes/contract terms and conditions; formulating and executing strategies to minimize potential risks to the business.
- Working with customers, management, and program teams to resolve issues, secure approvals, and ensure successful contract execution.
- Serving as point of contact for the customer during all phases of a program.
- Generating and maintaining contract documentation.
- Knowledge of FAR and DFARS required and functional knowledge of ERP systems input and report generation.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with ITAR
- Experience with reviewing RFQs, preparing quotes, negotiation, definitization and administration of DoD and Commercial contracts.
- Experience with risk assessment of quotes/contract terms and conditions and strategies to minimize potential risks to the business.
- Ability to effectively interface at all levels of company management
- Ability to effectively interface with Government and other customer organizations
- Ablility to travel as required. Anticipated 10 – 25% of time.
