# Director of Contracts

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Reston, VA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $139,100.00 - $251,450.00
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

The Health & Services Sector of Leidos is seeking a Director of Contracts to lead and manage the Contracts function and team for the Government Services & Solutions Business Area.

The Director of Contracts will be responsible for:

- Leading a team of contracts professionals at all stages of career development

- Providing oversight and review of all proposals, monitoring significant contracts, leading and/or assisting in key negotiations, resolving contract or personnel performance issues, identifying risks and associated mitigations, ensuring compliance with Leidos policies and procedures as well as government and contract requirements

- Coaching the team on negotiating terms

- Providing mentoring, advice, and counsel to Business Area and Sector counterparts, and Contracts staff

- Establishing measurement and functional performance goals for the team, including career development, inclusion, and team retention, and providing regular feedback and conducting performance reviews

- Regularly interacting with program managers, program financial analysts, financial & business operations directors, capture/business development teams, human resources directors, and with customer leadership

- Applying strong interpersonal and communication skills to deal effectively with both internal stakeholders and external customers

- Collaborating with the Contract & Supply Chain Directors for the Health & Services Sector, and across Leidos

- Attending early capture sessions to determine specific information and requirements to apply the correct contracts skillsets, techniques, capture methods, and resources to meet Leidos' and the customer's expectations and objectives

- Supporting internal/external audit activities and data requests from internal/external customers

- Demonstrating the values of the company and the organization

The successful candidate will have:

- Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance

- Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of related experience OR Master's with 10+ years or prior relevant experience

- Expert knowledge within the government contracting arena with particular emphasis on contract execution and proposal support

- Experience with ID/IQ contracts

- Excellent negotiation skills, including experience negotiating complex terms and conditions

- Minimum of 4 years' experience supervising or leading teams

- Demonstrated ability to manage geographically dispersed teams of professionals

- Experience with all contract types and a working knowledge of FAR/DFARS

- Experience with non-disclosure agreements and teaming agreements

- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities

- Interpersonal skills to deal effectively with executive management and teams regarding the Contracts function

- Ability to analyze and mitigate OCI risk

- Ability to establish relationships internally and externally

- Proficiency in Excel/Word/PowerPoint/Acrobat

Preferred qualifications include:

- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration OR a related field

- Location within commuting distance to Reston, VA

- Direct, recent experience with Federal Government customers

The pay range for this position is $139,100.00 - $251,450.00.

## Skills

### Required
- government contracting
- contract execution
- proposal support
- ID/IQ contracts
- negotiation
- team management
- FAR/DFARS
- non-disclosure agreements
- teaming agreements
- OCI risk analysis
- Excel
- Word
- PowerPoint
- Acrobat

### Nice to have
- Business Administration
- Federal Government experience

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