Government Contract Manager
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Published
10/24/2024
Government Contract Manager (similar in level to Senior Finance Manager) 2024
Job Summary
Our team in Washington, DC is seeking a Government Contract & Pricing Manager to be involved in all facets of government contracts. You will report directly to the Executive Vice President, Finance – South Region. This is a hybrid role with the expectation that you will work from the Washington D.C. office at least three times a week.
Responsibilities
- Provides guidance to internal teams on relating to contract and task order regulations and requirements.
- Maintain and update internal policies and procedures to ensure compliance with all government requirements
- Assist in the evaluation of RFPs and Task Orders and existing contrac modifications/amendments for business and financial requirements
- Monitors primary Weber Shandwick project (contract) progress and partner/subcontractor performance to flag substantive or administrative problems and work w/ teams to outline corrective action with respect to modifications in program/project content, direction, funding, staff levels, etc.
- Focal point for all communication with law, finance and business team disciplines for resolution of contract issues and disputes
- Manages contract change control process (internally) and helps prepare package for client submission and review
- Lead contract renewal process for various contracting vehicles including GSA, BPA and IDIQ
- With appropriate IPG legal coordination, analyzes significant, and/or unique contract requirements, special provisions, terms and conditions to ensure compliance with appropriate laws, regulations, and corporate policies and business unit procedure. Inter-Agency Partnerships, Subcontracts & Vendors*
- Support contract and subcontract negotiations
- Work with Project Managers in creating purchase orders, subcontractor and vendor selection, travel compliance and compliance w/ prime contract/task orders
- Oversees competitive bid process for outside partners and/or prepares justification memoranda for funding and implementation of inter-agency agreements or subcontracts
- Tracks implementation and evaluation of inter-agency agreements or subcontracts to ensure acceptable quality and conformance to agreed requirements
- Maintain adequate back up documentation and files for competitive and sole source arrangements Financial and Business
- Maintain adequate systems for compliance with government cost accounting standards
- Prepare and submit annual incurred cost proposal and provisional rates using SAP and Excel
- Submit filings with appropriate government agencies including small business, and GSA Industrial Funding Fee (IFF)
- Monitor the actual indirect rates during the year
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors’ degree and 6+ years’ experience with government contracts & pricing
- Extensive working knowledge in GAAP, FAR, FTR and government cost accounting standards
Additional Qualifications:
- Ability to work with all levels of people across functional organizations within the company and the Government
- Knowledge of advanced functions in Excel
- Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
- Detail oriented and able to work independently
- Prior working experience with CMS, CDC, and GSA; and Experience performing full accounting cycle is a plus
The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401k (with employer match)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
- MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
- Short-Term Disability
- Paid Employee Family Leave
- Family Building Benefit
Washington DC Salary range: $100,000 – $110,000
Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.
Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.
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Los Angeles, California, United States
Vice President, Integrated Project Management
Weber Shandwick seeks an experienced VP of Client Operations & Integrated Project Management to join our West Project Management team.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as strategic operations lead across major consumer, tech, and healthcare accounts, demonstrating autonomy and strong decision-making skills.
- Cultivate and maintain strategic relationships with internal account leaders, procurement and operations teams across regions.
- Champion consistency in operational and project management practices, driving agency and client-side efficiencies, facilitating effective team integration, and establishing robust operational systems.
- Collaborate with diverse internal and client stakeholder teams to establish efficient and effective ways of working.
- Proactively mitigate and creatively resolve emerging issues and risks, sharing insights and opportunities for improvement with the extended project management team.
- Mentor and guide a team of project managers, continuously evaluating talent, resource needs, and assignments, optimizing the operational and project management infrastructure to support business growth.
- Partner with the client finance team to continuously assess the financial health of the portfolio, reporting to leadership and ensuring adherence to financial guidelines, including consistent scoping practices.
- Design and implement processes, templates, tools, and guidelines to optimize and elevate account/portfolio operations.
- Possess a comprehensive understanding of the production processes behind digital, social, content, media, and public relations campaigns.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of Project Management or Client/Portfolio Operations Experience.
- Strong financial management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong experience with scoping, development of budgets and schedules for complex programs with multiple workstreams.
The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401k (with employer match)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
- MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
- Short-Term Disability
- Paid Employee Family Leave
- Family Building Benefit
California/Washington Salary range: $130,000 – $165,000
Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.
Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Senior Vice President, Client Experience
Weber Shandwick is currently seeking a Freelance Senior Vice President to join its Public Affairs teams to play a central role with new and longstanding clients.
Candidates should demonstrate a proven track record of leading external communications, including working directly with senior-level clients/stakeholders to shape strategies and messaging. The ideal candidate will have a thorough understanding of the U.S. political landscape at the federal, state and local levels, as well as the intersection of earned, paid and owned media, including through experience working for elected officials, candidates, or campaigns.
The candidate will also understand the expectations on the private sector to lead – alone, or in partnership with government – to solve important national and global challenges, such as climate change and rising inequity.
Candidates must be driven, poised and team-oriented, with a demonstrated ability to learn issues quickly and communicate effectively with internal and external audiences. They must possess exceptional judgment when working with team members, client contacts and vendors, including legal and government relations partners, and experience managing teams and supervising individuals.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design and implement purpose, public affairs and issue advocacy campaigns on behalf of corporate, non-profit, coalition and trade association clients, including in highly-regulated industries
- Serve as a primary client contact responsible for strategic counsel, management of account deliverables and deadlines
- Develop, oversee and execute corporate reputation, stakeholder engagement and integrated marketing and communications programs and campaigns, including but not limited to: data and analytics, strategic planning, formative research, message testing, creative concepting and production, earned, paid and owned media
- Manage cross-functional teams, providing leadership, direction and guidance to ensure we deliver our best work and exceed client expectations
- Create opportunities for team members to learn and grow – promoting and retaining a collaborative, inclusive work environment conducive to success
- Provide oversight of budget, multi-agency and vendor contracting, timelines and reporting
- Serve as a key senior member of the social impact and public affairs teams, contributing to ongoing business development, management and coaching of junior team members and inspiring emerging leaders in our agency
DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 10+ years related professional experience
Additional Qualifications – Success Factors
- Integrated communications and political/legislative experience
- Experience managing significant client programs, cross-functional teams and integrated campaigns
- Significant media relations experience and contacts
- Fluent in national, business, and political media, as well as digital strategy and social media
- Can turn ideas into workable plans, while anticipating client and team needs
- Ability to work in, motivate, and mobilize fast-paced, highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary teams
- Proactive self-starter and problem solver with meticulous attention to detail
- Effective oral and written communication skills
- Resilient mindset, deep curiosity and a healthy sense of humor
Salary range: $135.00
Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.
Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Senior Manager, Business Marketing
Senior Manager – B2B Marketing, Digital
Weber Shandwick – Baltimore
Weber Shandwick is seeking a talented Senior Manager, Business Marketing (B2B) to join our team, part of Weber Advisory, a unit that combines brand and communications expertise with cultural understanding and insights to provide trusted, agile C-suite counsel that accelerates stakeholder and business value.
Working in our hybrid model – a mix of remote and onsite work – you’ll help lead client partnerships focused on integrated digital marketing strategy and execution, across Baltimore and our NA network, particularly in Washington, DC—embracing our values of curiosity, inclusion, courage and impact. Our Baltimore office is a part of the agency’s South business unit, including Atlanta and DC.
On any given day, you’ll work on marketing automation strategy, content development, mapping user journeys, liaising with clients on a paid campaign, and/or helping to launch a podcast. You’ll bring a background in digital strategy, and experience managing integrated projects including websites, social, mobile and/or email campaigns.
The ideal candidate will be highly collaborative, solutions-oriented, and have a passion for digital innovation and telling brand stories across digital platforms, including constructing efficient nurture journeys and concepting content production. If this is you, let’s talk!
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop and implement integrated marketing strategies for major campaigns, product launches and digital assets for the world’s biggest brands with a mix of paid, owned and earned programs
- Execute digital engagement campaigns for clients across sectors using marketing automation tools, especially for audiences with long sales cycles
- Conduct research for various deliverables, such as: market landscape, persona, competitor, content, and target audiences
- Serve as a lead business marketing strategist for key clients and internal teams
- Brainstorm and pitch compelling ideas for performance marketing campaigns and projects
- Inform the development of creative and editorial assets to resonate with clients’ priority audiences and ensure channels are being used in high-value ways
- Manage multiple projects at various stages simultaneously, while managing budgets and staffing
- Oversee and work with internal teams on editorial planning, content development, paid media, monitoring/analytics, and ongoing social strategy
QUALIFICATIONS
- 6-8 years’ experience within the digital communications and marketing industry with a strong understanding of integrated strategies
- Previous experience with a digital marketing or digital agency strongly preferred
- Experience within energy, technology, manufacturing, healthcare/pharma, or similar verticals
- Strong experience with both large-scale and start-up business environments preferred
- Proven expertise in B2B and/or integrated digital campaigns
- Background in demand gen, lead gen, sales enablement, ABM and email marketing
- Experience with B2B automation platforms and MarTech tools (e.g. Salesforce, Marketo, Pardot)
- Experience working with creative and/or technical teams
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Familiarity and comfort working with senior-level clients as well as integrated agency teams
More on the Essentials:
- Thinking:Seeing the forest through the trees for our clients and not getting caught in the minutia. We celebrate intellectual curiosity and creativity.
- Communication: Speak, write and edit succinctly and compellingly.
- Storytelling:Understand the elements that make a story exciting, what brands are doing in the media ecosystem and across social platforms, and what they should do next.
- Management: Meet deadlines and deliver results. Work fast and work well.
- Interpersonal:Collaborate well, whether it’s in our team, with client or network teams
- Passion: Be energized by delivering high-quality work, building close client relationships, and executing effectively. Be motivated by the work.
- Technical:Skills in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Analytics tools (Google Analytics, OpenGraph and Insights), research & execution tools (Hootsuite, Brandwatch). Experience with MarTech platforms such as Email Service Providers (ESP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Content Management System (CMS) platforms. Media databases and social tracking tools are a bonus.
- Detail-Oriented:Whether it’s a strategy presentation or monthly reporting insights, attention to detail and a commitment to delivering clear and precise work is essential.
- Spark:Understand what sets you apart.
- Growth: Recognizing where you can grow and be open to learning opportunities—enabling our team, agency and clients’ success.
What else we’re looking for:
- Experience in integrated digital marketing strategy and execution
- Ability to build fully-integrated strategies for major campaigns, product launches and digital assets for the world’s biggest brands
- Understanding of performance marketing tactics focused on results
- Background in demand gen, lead gen and social media marketing
- Experience in conducting research of various types such as; market landscape, persona, competitor and content research
- Experience in development of project plans, calendars, and workflow processes
- Ability to brainstorm and pitch compelling ideas for performance campaigns and projects
- Deep experience within cross-channel digital marketing strategies, working closely with different teams including creative, media, planning and PR
- Strong understanding of digital analytics, measurement and performance-driven insights
- Experience within B2B marketing (specifically in tech, healthcare, manufacturing, energy, finance or higher education, etc.)
- Keen interest in staying current with industry trends and updates that directly and indirectly affect our clients and our digital practice
The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401k (with employer match)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
- MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
- Short-Term Disability
- Paid Employee Family Leave
- Family Building Benefit
Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.
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We make our careers website accessible to any and all users. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application process, please contact us at JobAppAccommodation@ipgdxtra.com. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or vendors; rather it is strictly for applicants who require special assistance accessing our employment website. Due to volume, messages sent to this email address that are not related to an accommodation cannot be answered.