Position Overview
The Senior Manager, Contracts/Business Process Management is responsible for leading both contract lifecycle management and the financial and operational governance framework for OSC Technical Solutions. This role serves as a central integrator across contracts, finance, and program delivery to ensure the business operates with discipline, visibility, and alignment.
In addition to overseeing contract administration, compliance, and negotiation, this position is accountable for establishing and managing business process management systems that drive financial performance, operational accountability, and decision support. This includes ownership of budget planning, forecasting, financial controls, performance tracking, and executive reporting rhythms across the business unit.
The role partners closely with program leadership to align contractual commitments with financial execution, ensuring that scope, funding, and delivery performance are tightly integrated. The position is expected to build scalable processes and reporting structures that enable leadership to proactively manage risk, optimize resource allocation, and maintain audit-ready operations.
This individual operates as a key business leader supporting the Senior Vice President & General Manager, providing both contractual risk oversight and financial/operational insight to guide strategic and day-to-day decision-making.
Major Activities (Typical Duties/Responsibilities)
- Serve as primary interface between customer and OSC Technical Solutions to ensure disciplined, consistent contractual communications.
- Lead contract negotiation, administration, and execution activities in accordance with FAR/DFARS, company policy, and customer requirements.
- Advise leadership on contractual rights, obligations, risks, and mitigation strategies across the contract lifecycle.
- Review RFPs and contract terms for risk; develop negotiation strategies, exceptions, and fallback positions to protect company interests.
- Ensure contract documents accurately reflect negotiated terms and are executed in a timely manner.
- Partner with proposal teams to assess contractual risk, support pricing strategy, and shape compliant, competitive submissions.
- Support project teams in Management of Change (MOC) processes, ensuring contractual alignment with scope, funding, and schedule adjustments.
- Monitor contract performance against scope, cost, and funding thresholds (e.g., 75% funding notifications) and coordinate required customer actions.
- Maintain audit-ready contract files, including correspondence, modifications, deliverables, and compliance documentation.
- Lead coordination across legal, finance, and operations to ensure contract compliance and
- consistent external communications.
- Administer contract closeout activities to ensure timely, accurate completion and documentation.
- Evaluate claims, changes, and disputes, support development of defensible positions and resolution strategies.
- Maintain contract logs (awards, changes, correspondence, claims) to ensure visibility and traceability across the portfolio.
Business Process Management & Financial Governance
- Establish and manage indirect rate structures and pools (fringe, overhead, G&A), including development of forward pricing assumptions, monitoring of actuals vs. projections, and implementation of controls to ensure rate stability, compliance, and alignment with business objectives.
- Lead financial planning and execution activities, including budget formulation, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial performance tracking across the business unit.
- Establish and maintain financial controls and governance mechanisms to ensure spend discipline, compliance with contract funding limits, and alignment with corporate objectives.
- Develop and manage integrated operating rhythms (monthly/quarterly reviews) linking financial performance, delivery metrics, and strategic priorities.
- Build and scale business management systems that provide visibility into budgets, commitments, revenue, margin, and program health.
- Define, track, and report KPIs and KRIs across financial, operational, and delivery domains; implement executive dashboards to support decision-making.
- Partner with program and project leadership to monitor cost performance, identify risks, and implement corrective actions.
- Oversee invoice review and approval processes, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and alignment with contract terms and financial controls.
- Analyze trends in operating budgets, labor utilization, and program performance to inform forecasting and resource allocation decisions.
- Implement standardized business processes across the business unit (e.g., budget tracking, financial reporting, pipeline-to-revenue conversion).
- Support bid/no-bid and investment decisions through financial modeling, risk analysis, and scenario planning.
- Ensure alignment between contractual commitments and financial execution, including revenue recognition, funding limitations, and scope control.
- Drive process maturity and continuous improvement, establishing repeatable frameworks for planning, execution, and performance management.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
- Extensive knowledge of Federal Government contracting (FAR/DFARS/SCA).
- In-depth understanding of various contract types: fixed-price, cost, cost-reimbursable, time and material and incentive type contracts.
- Proven contract negotiation
- Strong business
- Highly self-motivated, self-directed, and attentive to detail
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure
- Good interpersonal skills: ability to work effectively and cooperatively with all levels of management and staff, affiliated-company employees as well as outside business associates; exhibits a professional manner in dealing with others.
- Superior organizational, follow-up, and detail-oriented
- Make decisions, solve problems, and exercise excellent
- Ability to research, organize and analyze technical information with particular attention to accuracy and detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; including thorough knowledge of proper
- grammar, advanced vocabulary, spelling, editing and proofreading
- Proficient using Microsoft Office products, such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and industry-standard computer software and databases.
- High degree of sensitivity regarding confidential
Physical Abilities
- Sufficient fine motor skills for the use of computers, calculators with an ability to withstand repetitive keyboarding for extended periods of time.
- Visual and communications ability adequate to perform the essential functions of the job.
- Ability to kneel, bend and twist at the waist on an occasional basis.
- Ability to reach below shoulder height with regular frequency (desk position) and at or above shoulder height on occasion.
- Ability to push, pull, carry and lift objects weighing up to 10 pounds on a regular basis, and greater weights on an occasional basis.
- Ability to travel by vehicle or aircraft, and ability to safely operate a motor vehicle.
Minimum Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s degree in business or related field from an accredited college is required and10+ years of experience with contracts and finance or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Ability to pass a background and drug
- Must have identification compliant with the Real ID Act at time of
- Must be able to obtain Department of Energy access
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA Preferred
- Professional Certification (CPCM, CFCM, CCCM) preferred
- Experience in the successful negotiation of, and administration of, Non-Disclosure Agreements and the proprietary data exchanged under those agreements, and a solid understanding of the Government’s right to data under FAR/DFARS requirements is desirable.
Benefits: OSC Technical Solutions offers excellent benefits for eligible employees. Benefits include paid holidays, paid time off, 401k with employer match, dental, vision, health insurance plans through the Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) program, as well as life and disability benefits.
OSC Technical Solutions does not discriminate, and the company provides equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, age, marital status, pregnancy or parenthood, handicap or disability, genetics, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. OSC Technical Solutions adheres to all federal, state and local laws regarding equal employment opportunity and will not discriminate against you in violation of these laws. OSC Technical Solutions reserves the right to apply CIRI Shareholder preference to qualified Shareholders in employment and advancement opportunities.
OSC Technical Solutions participates in E-Verify. We will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.
Reasonable Accommodation:
OSC Technical Solutions will provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities. In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with OSC Global, LLC or any of its subsidiaries, please email recruiting@ciri.com.
Important Employment Notice: Federal Contract & RCW 49.44.240:
Due to our status as a federal contractor operating within the State of Washington, all applicants and employees must adhere to federal law, which classifies cannabis as a Schedule I controlled substance.
While Washington State’s RCW 49.44.240 (which generally prohibits employers from discriminating against an applicant based on their lawful use of cannabis off-site and during working hours) is state law, it does not supersede federal requirements.
Zero-Tolerance Policy and Disqualification
- Prohibition: The use, possession, or distribution of cannabis is strictly prohibited for all employees, regardless of state law.
- Testing: Applicants will be subject to pre-employment drug screening that includes testing for cannabis.
- Disqualification: A positive test result for cannabis will result in immediate disqualification from consideration for employment, as mandated by our federal contract obligations.
All applicants must be able to comply with all federal regulations, including those concerning controlled substances, as a condition of employment.
