What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Contracts Administrator II position at LinQuest Corporation?
LinQuest is seeking a Senior Contracts Administrator II to join our team in Ohio, California, Colorado, Florida or Virginia. US Citizenship and the ability to obtain a DoD security clearance is required.
The Senior Contracts Administrator II will perform the day-to-day operations of contract programs and collaborate with internal departments for compliance obligations. In this role you will perform a wide range of contract administration functions. The Senior Contracts Administrator II will collaborate with internal departments and ensure all contracts are administered in accordance with established company policies and procedures. As a qualified candidate, you will be proficient in performing analysis and generating proposals and contract documents. You will also make improvement recommendations to functional processes and ensure the organization's compliance and effectiveness, while always maintaining the highest standards of ethical behavior.
Responsibilities:
- Draft, generate, interpret, and manage proposals and contract documents, in accordance with internal and external requirements and schedules, to ensure these documents properly reflect business objectives.
- Partner with contract managers in coordinating and analyzing input from other organizations during the negotiation processes.
- Perform analysis and prepare reports to ensure that contracts are within negotiated and agreed-upon parameters.
- Advise and represent the organization on issues concerning contract matters.
- Disseminate Customer contractual requirements within the organization.
- Respond to customer inquiries in a timely and efficient manner.
- Manage Customer demand scheduling and order fulfillment.
- Prepare documentation for legal and contract negotiations.
- Maintain historical contractual records and audit artifacts.
- Ensure coordination with the Customer program team.
- Coordinate demand effort with the Operations team.
- Provide advice on contract administration.
Required Skills and Experience:
- 10-14 years of experience.
- Bachelor's Degree with emphasis in business, finance, accounting or supply management or related field, or equivalent. Associates and 2 years additional experience or HS Diploma/GED and 4 years additional experience may be considered.
- Knowledge in U.S. Government (FAR/DFARs) Contracting.
- Ability to effectively work with the management of other organizations as well as representatives of Government agencies.
- Prior experience with various contract types such as IDIQs, Time & Material, Cost types, Firm Fixed Price, etc.
- Experience with contract negotiations.
- Ability to work well under pressure and short deadlines.
- Ability to work with little oversight and follow established policies and procedures including acquisition laws and regulations.
- Conversant in Microsoft Office applications.
- Exercises independent judgement and proactively handles supplier/vendor issues.
- Strong presentation and written communication skills.
- NCMA Certification (CPCM, CFCM, or CCCM) or similar.
- US Citizenship and the ability to obtain a DoD security clearance is required.
Compensation: The starting salary is $79,143. Salary determinations will be based on a number of factors to include but not limited to location, years of experience, and education.
Why LinQuest?
LinQuest Corporation has a stellar 40-year track record of providing end-to-end system-of-systems (SoS) architecture definition, engineering design, integration and test, and operations expertise to enable full lifecycle development and deployment of pre-eminent Space, Air, Land, Sea, Ground, and Cyberspace game-changing capabilities across US DOD and IC Customers' portfolios. Unique combination of in-depth domain knowledge, lessons learned-honed best practices, and mission-specific applications of principles, tools, and techniques of Digital Engineering (DE), DE Ecosystem (DEE), and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) set LinQuest apart from the competition to consistently deliver stellar high-value results for our customers. LinQuest's corporate vision and values place the employee at the center of utmost customer satisfaction, strategic business growth, and tactical execution excellence. Our employees' creative and inspirational drive, sense of fulfillment of personal and professional growth, and tightknit camaraderie within and across lines of business are essential in gaining and maintaining exceptional LinQuest corporate-wide results of new business awards and renewed contracts.
Benefits
LinQuest offers comprehensive and competitive benefit offerings to our team members to include medical, dental, vision, retirement, paid time off, company paid life insurance, and more! For additional information please visit: https://www.linquest.com/careeers/our-benefits.
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