Supervisory Contract Specialist (Strategic Buying Center Director)

Summary

This position is located in the Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources, headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia. This announcement will close at 11:59 PM, on the day that 150 applications have been received or the closing date of the announcement, whichever comes first.

Duties

• What You'Ll Be Doing Day to Day as a Supervisory Contract Specialist (Center Director), you will be responsible for executing complex, high-volume acquisitions and advising customers to deliver mission-focused, enterprise outcomes use your knowledge and experience to optimize business results and customer experience by: Provide executive leadership and direction over a Strategic Buying Center, overseeing acquisition execution across multiple divisions and teams.
• Manage Center resources, including workforce, funding, space, and systems, to support effective acquisition operations and mission delivery.
• Oversee execution of complex acquisitions and ensures delivery of acquisition outcomes across the Center's portfolio.
• Lead development and execution of strategic sourcing and category management solutions aligned with enterprise and HHS priorities.
• Develop and implements customer engagement strategies, ensuring effective partnership and delivery of acquisition solutions across HHS and Office of the Secretary stakeholders.
• Lead industry engagement strategies for assigned procurements, fostering collaboration and market awareness to support acquisition outcomes.
• Operationalize organizational strategy into Center-level execution plans, aligning resources, priorities, and performance expectations.
• Oversee use of acquisition systems (e.g., HCAS, PRISM, or equivalent) to manage operations, ensure data integrity, and support reporting.

Education

Foreign Education: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov. Note: Applications can be accepted from students who expect to complete qualifying education within 9 months from the date of application. Education was completed successfully before the applicant can be appointed.

Required Documents

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