Palladium Hiring for Team Lead, Contracts, Supply Chain Management at Washington, DC  Full Time

Team Lead, Contracts, Supply Chain Management

About Palladium:

Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and
deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the
globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build
enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to
address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over
90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse
staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.

This Opportunity:

Palladium’s Supply Chain Management
(SCM) is a dynamic community of practice with talented colleagues working
toward the goal of providing unmatched service delivery with unprecedented
levels of visibility, accountability, and data to drive decision making, while
enabling local logistics ecosystems to grow and mature.

The Team Lead, Contracts is responsible for overseeing subcontract administration within the SCM portfolio and all aspects of the prime and
subcontract contract management and administration under USG agencies including USAID, CDC, and DOS, as well as commercial clients.

The Team Lead, Contracts will
have a close working relationship with the other portfolio teams focusing on
business development, project delivery, human resources, procurement, finance,
and risk management. The Team Lead, Contracts will also work closely with
colleagues and business unit’s outside the portfolio including Palladium’s
Contracts and Compliance (C&C) Department to ensure overall compliance in
line with corporate policies and procedures. This person must bring strong
interpersonal skills and demonstrated experience building and leading teams to
excel.

Location:

The position is based in Palladium’s
Washington D.C. office

You and Your Career:

If you are a strategic, collaborative, team builder with a proven
track record of delivering complex contracting solutions while mitigating risk, we are interested in hearing from you.

We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities
from the start. We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources,
and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!

Reporting and Supervision:

• This role reports into the Portfolio Director with a dotted line to Palladium’s C&C Director
  
• This role will have supervisory and mentorship responsibilities
  

Primary Duties and
Responsibilities:

Contract Administration

• Oversee all aspects of prime contracts, grants and agreement
  administration from
  pre-award through project close-out for the portfolio
  
• Administer various types of
  contracts, including but not limited to GSA, OASIS, IDIQ, CPFF, FFP and
  T&M
  
• Liaise with external clients (Contracting and Agreement Officers) and internal clients and teams
  
• Manage all existing contracts to comply with contract requirements and company policies
  
• Ensure contract management practices are in line with the policies and procedures set by Palladium C&C
• Provide reporting to
  Palladium C&C on contract funding, portfolio, backlog, and historical
  award information
• Ensure that prime and subcontract start-up, modifications,
  and close out is reported to Palladium C&C to a timely manner
• Identify and escalate risks to Portfolio Lead, Managing
  Partner, and if necessary Palladium’s General Counsel

Subcontract Administration

• Prepare,
  review, and lead negotiations of Subcontracts, Teaming Agreements and
  Non-Disclosure Agreements, Memoranda of understanding, and other agreement
  tools consistent with Palladium and Client regulations
  
• Prepare
  an negotiate subcontract agreements, including flow-down of prime-contract
  clauses
  
• Administratively
  manage all aspects of subcontract agreements
  

Quality Assurance/ Quality Control

• Ensure that the portfolio and its employees comply with regulatory requirements, contractual terms and conditions, and internal policies and procedures
  
• Provide inputs to, and serve as the liaison for the portfolio during internal compliance review and monitoring activities implemented by the risk management team
  
• Provide inputs to, and serve as the liaison for the portfolio, to the risk management team during external government investigations and queries
  
• Provides inputs and reports
  to Palladium C&C for government reporting and periodic compliance
  filings (e.g., SAM.gov, service contractor reporting, GSA schedule
  reporting, FSRS, ESRS, CPARS etc.)
  
• Provides inputs and reports
  to the risk management team for support to ISO, USAID/OIG and other
  external and internal audit activities
  
• Provide strategic advice to
  portfolio leads and project teams regarding contract management as it is
  affected by client and local laws and regulations
  

Business Development Support

• Provide initial reviews and submit to
  Palladium C&C for approval, the portfolio’s representation and
  certifications and subcontracting plans for business proposals
  
• Provide subject matter expertise and
  support to project kick-off meetings with clients
  
• Identify concerns with requests for
  proposals (RFPs) and solicitations and ensure that the portfolio is
  appropriately briefed on all significant terms and risks
  
• Participate
  in potential protest analysis and execution
  

Team

• Mentor and build contract and compliance
  capacity within the portfolio
  
• Provide portfolio wide support for
  specific contract concerns
  

Key
Competencies Required:

• Working knowledge of one or more of the following technical topics: global collaboration, market dynamics, category management, forecasting and supply planning, strategic sourcing/ procurement, multi-modal logistics (sea freight, airfreight, ground freight), port and staging management, warehousing & inventory management, cross-docking, yard management, material handling, customs clearance, last mile distribution & transportation, governance, strategic planning, private sector engagement, private sector development, supply chain financing, human workforce development and institutional capacity building, supply chain information systems and data management, data analytics and performance management, governance, and enabling environment.
  
• Demonstrated experience with contracts and subcontracts administration for supply chain operations at the field or home office levels
  
• Detailed
  knowledge of federal contracting and procurement laws, regulations,
  policies, and procedures
  
• Proven
  experience successfully resolving complex contracting challenges
  throughout for multiple contract types
  
• Experience providing
  full-cycle support of the contracts function for multiple contract types
  and mentoring and overseeing others who perform this function
  
• Extensive
  experience anticipating and mitigating risk
  
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in
  English
  
• Enjoys building,
  inspiring, and leading teams
  

Professional
Expertise/Competencies Preferred:

• USAID contracting experience is strongly preferred
  

Equity,
Diversity & Inclusion – Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and
inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of
society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity,
success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve
diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive
equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal
characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background,
age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual
orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous
status.

Should
you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or
you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email
our team at [email protected] and we will
be in touch to discuss.

Safeguarding – We define
Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our
people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committed
to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium
are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to
an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a
rigorous due diligence process.