Associate Contracts Manager
Listed on 2026-10-11
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Associate Contracts Manager (Supervisory)
ICF is seeking an experienced Associate Contracts Manager (Supervisory) to be a people manager and perform contract management functions in the growing and dynamic Environment & Planning group with a broad client base in state, local, and commercial contracts, with occasional Federal contracts. The ideal candidate will have management experience, a great attitude, a keen eye for detail, be flexible, and willing to think "outside the box".
He/she must be comfortable with
1) customer interaction,
2) working with geographically diverse internal/external customers and management,
3) have extensive experience independently leading the development of and responsibility for business/price proposals,
4) handling a large volume of transactions,
5) strong negotiation skills; and
6) managing junior contracts personnel.
The candidate will have the opportunity to work with senior management in the department as well as company-wide leadership teams. Reston hybrid preferred, however this position is open to being 100% Remote in the 48 contiguous United States.
Infrequent travel to other ICF offices or customer locations may be required.
Key Responsibilities:- Ability to independently handle multiple proposals negotiations, contract awards and administration of the resultant contracts in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience negotiating MSAs, NDAs, Teaming Agreements, Scopes of Work, and other contractual documents
- Establish effective working relationships with business partners and contract team members. Understands both strategic and operational goals and translates them into effective contracting practices.
- Independently develops business/price volumes to address requirements and mitigates risk consistent with sound business practices, company policies, and government regulations.
- Proactively assesses critical contract obligations and contract provisions, to include gaps and risks.
- Advises on contract revisions and conduct negotiations to better meet the needs of the Client and ICF
- Notifies management and appropriate Program Management of potential non-compliance and other problems that could have an adverse impact on the company, specifically advising on contractual rights and obligations, interpreting terms and conditions and government regulations.
- Leads the proper coordination of various types of agreements and other contract/legal documents with other corporate functions, such as accounting, legal, tax, etc.
- Manages and reviews work products in an ever-changing environment, supporting activities in diverse markets.
- Maintains own portfolio of active projects.
- Delegates workload among assigned team members to ensure effective and efficient support to proposal and program teams.
- Leads business volume reviews to ensure team's compliance with solicitation requirements and corporate policies.
- Provides leadership and oversight of assigned team members to develop negotiation, cost/price proposal and contract administration skills and build upon skillsets of the team to ensure growth and development of each individual member.
- Ensures proactive maintenance of contracts documentation consistent with established ICF practices.
- Ability to independently handle multiple priorities effectively.
- 5+ years of experience in contracts administration
- 0-1 year of leadership/supervisory experience
- 2+ years of experience with a mix of State and Local and/or Commercial contract arrangements
Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree
- Experience working with a wide range of clients (State and Local, Commercial, U.S. Government)
- CFCM and/or CPCM
- 1+ leading and writing business/price volume proposals
Skills:
- Excellent oral and written communications
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to multi-task in a dynamic environment
- Extensive experience and skills with various computer programs required (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Ability to build solid business relationships with both internal and external customers.
- Proactive attitude in providing guidance and advice to project teams, as well as to the contracts team.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
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