Location
Columbia, MD | United States
Job description
Job Title:
Director of Contracts
Department: Finance
Reports to: Vice President Contracts and General Counsel
Owl Cyber Defense is a leader and trusted partner in cyber security. We deliver solutions that protect and connect the world’s most critical networks. Owl’s product lines of cross domain, data diode, and portable media solutions provide the strongest available security checkpoints for threat prevention and secure data availability. Our in-depth expertise in security engineering at the operating system level enables us to help government and commercial customers meet ever-evolving cyber security threats.
Job Summary: The Director of Contracts will support Owl’s continuously growing DoD, public sector, and commercial lines of business. The ideal candidate can expect a highly varied, fast-paced set of requests from our product and services teams as they work to close sales of industry-leading IT products and services with various customers. As a Director of Contracts, you should be a team player and participate in building contracts management expertise and act as a trusted advisor to staff and the leadership team.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Develop, execute, and administer Non-Disclosure Agreements and Teaming Agreements. Participate in proposal development
- Negotiate Purchase Orders, Contract and Software License Agreements
- Experience with end-to-end government contract administration
- Advise management of contractual rights and obligations
- Must be knowledgeable about the FAR and DFARS
- Review all contract modifications and proposals for completeness, compliance, and accuracy; provide guidance to the program manager regarding contractual requirements
- Identify and mitigate contractual issues proactively to minimize risk through risk registers
- Prepare RFP packages for prospective subcontractors, as well as evaluate responses
- Work closely with program managers and product managers to assure compliance with contracts and programs
- Analyze opportunities and report recommendations to senior leadership to aid in the decision to bid or no bid
Requirements/Qualifications: - Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, or a related field
- A certificate of completion of a Government Procurement & Contracts Management Program or the NCMA CPCM may substitute for a Bachelor’s degree in an unrelated field
- Experience
- 15+ years of experience in contract management
- Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Must have experience with Government and commercial contracting
- Must have working knowledge of the FAR and the DFARS and/or related government regulations
- Must have experience with Services and Products contracts including software license agreements and commercial terms & conditions.
- Strong time management skills
- Ability to work with minimum supervision and provide regular updates on progress of assigned tasking’s in written and verbal formats
- Must be able to coordinate and prioritize multiple projects with limited supervision in fast-paced environments
- Working knowledge of federal export regulations preferred
- Experience in preparing proposals – specifically the business and cost volumes
- Additional Competencies/Requirements
- US Citizenship is required due to Government contracts
About Owl Cyber Defense Solutions, LLC Owl Cyber Defense Solutions, LLC is a fast-growing cybersecurity solutions company, holding a firm leadership position in network security and secure information transfer. It is a privately-owned US company with offices in Columbia, MD, Danbury, CT and Morrisville, NC. For more information, see .
Owl Cyber Defense is Proud to be an Equal Opportunity /Affirmative Action Employer.
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