Contract Acquisition Specialist
5 days ago
At MITRE, we're committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges and making a lasting impact in fields like cybersecurity, healthcare, and defense. As a Contract Acquisition Manager, you'll play a critical role in helping us achieve our mission.
About the Role
We're seeking a highly skilled Contract Acquisition Manager to join our team. In this role, you'll be responsible for developing and evaluating program technical and programmatic baselines, conducting Federal Government acquisition lifecycle activities, and providing acquisition and contracting actionable recommendations to government sponsors.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and/or evaluate program technical and programmatic baselines to ensure alignment with government objectives.
- Conduct Federal Government acquisition lifecycle activities, including creating contracts and supporting artifacts that provide best value to the government.
- Identify and define contracting requirements to support specific Federal Government acquisition activities in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR).
- Provide acquisition and contracting actionable recommendations to various government sponsors to ensure effective and efficient acquisition processes.
- Develop acquisition strategies and plans, as well as studies and assessments, to support acquisition and contracting activities for Federal Government sponsors.
- Perform independent validation and verification of government contracts to ensure compliance with regulations and best practices.
- Recommend and support implementation of acquisition and contracting industry best practices to drive continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
- BS or Master's in Economics, Finance, Business, Operations Research, Systems Engineering, or other engineering field.
- Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.
- Experience with cost estimating, cost risk analysis, and/or budgeting and the CPIC process in defense, intelligence, and/or civil agencies.
- Significant experience providing pre- and post-award acquisition support, including market analysis, cost analysis, requirements, rough orders of magnitude, and contract changes.
- Demonstrated understanding of Budget formulation, development, and planning lifecycle.
- Proficiency in development of risk-adjusted LCCEs and investment economic and decision analyses.
- Proficient with MS Office Suite, and other tools for analysis.
- Technical depth with demonstrated skills and experience in presenting analytical results both verbally and in writing.
- Demonstrated ability to engage at executive and C-suite levels.
- Must be eligible to receive an IRS Suitability Clearance.
- This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience providing acquisition support in acquiring managed services (technical and business) to achieve desired outcomes.
- ICEAA Certification or Defense Acquisition Workforce Initiative Act (DAWIA) certification desired.
- Knowledge of IT Portfolio Investment management and CPIC processes of select, control, and analyze.
- Knowledge of Technology Business Management (TBM) framework and potential solutions to aligning costs to services.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to prioritize across multiple projects and handle diverse assignments simultaneously.
- Advanced analytics skills.
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