Job: Director of Contracts

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Jobing Description

The Lewin Group is a premier national health care and human services consulting and policy analysis firm with more than 35 years of experience finding answers and solving problems for leading organizations in the public, non-profit, and private sectors. Lewin's strategic and analytical services aim to help clients:

Improve policy and expand knowledge of health care and human service systems

Enact, run, and evaluate programs to enhance delivery and financing of health care and family services

Deal with shifts in health care practice, technology, and regulation

Optimize performance, quality, coverage, and health outcomes

Create strategies for institutions, communities, associations, foundations governments, and people to make health care and human services systems more effective

We are currently looking for a Director of Contract for our Falls Church, VA office. The Director of Contracts will support the full scale of contracting and procurement activities. Qualified candidates will have at least 10 years experience applying the Federal Acquisition Regulation, FAR Cost Principles and Cost Accounting Standards to government contracts and procurements and the demonstrated ability to perform in a complex cross-functional environment.


Responsibilities

Responsible for the full range of contracting and procurement activities including contract, subcontract, license, lease, NDA and teaming agreement negotiation, administration, modification and closeout

Manage and support proposal efforts from RFP release through award, including reviewing RFP documents for contract issues, preparing Business Proposals and reviewing proposal submittals to ensure compliance/responsiveness to RFP and task order requirements

Ensure compliance with contracting policies and procedures consistent with government regulations and company policies

Attend and participate in senior level meetings to support business strategies, pricing strategies, and identification of potential risk factors to the organization

Work directly with project managers and practice leaders to ensure contract deliverables are being met

Collaborate, coordinate and provide guidance to affiliates within parent organization

Supervise, develop and mentor contracts staff

Maintain standardized processes and procedures for proposal and contract files

Establish and maintain forward pricing and estimating systems

Perform risk analysis review for all contractural documents and recommend mitigating options

Dispute resolution

Audit support

Continuous improvement through ISO

Lewin is part of the Ingenix family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.


If you get excited about the life transforming potential of bringing health care information to the right place, at the right time, to support crucial decisions, welcome to Lewin/OptumInsight.


We're one of the largest and fastest growing health information companies and the only organization in our industry with the information, technology and consulting expertise to solve the most significant challenges in health and human services.


Bring your talent to an industry leader of consulting expertise to help transform Health and Human Services. No matter what your role is where you join the organization you'll be empowered to ask more questions, develop better solutions and help make the healthcare system greater than ever.

Skills / Requirements

Qualifications:

10 years directly related experience including 5 years supervisory management

BA/BS required and CPCM strongly preferred, NCMA membership a plus

Demonstrated expertise managing procurement activities from RFP to contract award

Strong knowledge/expertise of FAR, DFAR and CAS and all types of contract vehicles, including GSA, for civilian agencies (e.g., DHHS, DOL, DOE, etc.)

Experience managing contract compliance, schedule, cost performance and customer satisfaction

OptumInsight is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.

OptumInsight is one of the largest and fastest growing health information companies. We specialize in improving the performance of the health system by providing analytics, technology and consulting services that enable better decisions and results. We integrate workflow solutions that deliver data in real-time, and create actionable insights - processing health information that relates directly to and affects one in four patients in the U.S, one in every three Medicaid dollars and one in every five emergency room visits. And we do it all with every action focused on our shared values of Integrity, Compassion, Relationships, Innovation & Performance.

What can YOU do with the right information? At OptumInsight, the possibilities and the impact are limitless. No matter what your role is at OptumInsight, you'll be empowered to ask more questions, develop better solutions and help make the health care system greater than ever. It's always fresh. It's always exciting. And it's never been more important.

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