Contract Program Manager

Contract Program Manager

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Seeking Contract Program Manager to perform a combination of contract, performance, relationship, and risk management responsibilities. Author all types of contracts and perform technical contract reviews that ensure optimal competitive advantage to the Agency. The ideal candidate must understand contractual and operational working relationships with IT vendors to ensure that contractual commitments are delivered.

Interview: Skype
Location: Columbus, OH
Posting: 83967

Responsibilities

• Under the guidance of the Vendor Management Office (VMO) Administrator, manage the entire contract lifecycle setup, negotiation and award, monitor, and close. Maintain up-to-date contract templates.
• Provide guidance in choosing the appropriate procurement vehicles. Interface with program offices, DAS, Legal and ITS technical teams for a smooth and efficient award of
• Provide contractual support and guidance to internal staff that manage vendor projects, identifying potential risks in the context of contract
• Monitor contracts while interfacing with agreement managers across different program
• Create standard operating procedures (SOPs) and workflows for contract
• Develop metrics across key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure strong performance management.
• Author and/or review requests for proposals (RFPs), requests for quotations (RFQs), deliverable- based information technology services (DBITS) and task orders to ensure compliance with policies and
• Assist in evaluation of vendor proposals, IT procurement, selection criteria and best-practice procedures.
• Collaborate with procurement staff to optimize the procurement of cost-effective
• Foster analytics-driven decisions based on strategic vendor contractual
• Uphold a central vendor repository to ensure effective contract management and vendor relationships, and plan for major software upgrades, ensuring that change management procedures/methodologies are
• Utilize a customer-focused approach to delivering contract management services to internal customers providing training, support and/or guidance to agreement managers as

• At least two years of experience in contract management including hardware, software and cloud agreements
• Demonstrated professional communication skills, both written and verbal with the ability to articulate complex ideas in easy-to-understand business
• Strong interpersonal effectiveness including the ability to