Vice President, Global Procurement and Subcontracts (Hybrid Reston, VA)

ICF is seeking a Vice President Global Procurement and Subcontracts to serve as the enterprises senior-most procurement executive accountable for the full procurement lifecycle acrosspurchasing strategic sourcing and subcontracts. Reporting to the Senior Vice President Contracts Procurement and Pricing this leader sets enterprise procurement and subcontracting strategy builds the operating model that delivers it and owns the performance compliance and risk posture of the function worldwide.

The Vice President directs a global organization through a team of leaders spanning direct and indirect purchasing category management subcontracts formation and administration and procurement operations. Success in the position depends on designing the policies delegation thresholds approval gates systems and talent structures that allow the organization to transact well at scale and on knowing when to personally engage in the highest-risk and highest-value awards and supplier relationships. The Vice President partners with executives across Contracts Compliance Operations Finance Legal Human Resources Pricing Administrative Operations and Business Development and serves as the executive voice of procurement to ICFs senior leadership.

This position is based in our Reston VA headquarters with a hybrid work schedule.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy and Enterprise Leadership

• Define and execute a global procurement and subcontracts strategy aligned to ICFs growthobjectives margin targets and client commitments.
• Serve as the executive advisor to senior leadership on supplier risk market conditions cost structure and make-versus-buy and teaming decisions.
• Represent procurement and subcontracts to the executive leadership teamand inaudits client reviews and government agency engagements.
• Set the acquisition strategy framework applied across capture and program execution ensuring sourcing and teaming approaches support both win strategy and executability.
• Lead the transformation agenda that unifiesthe procurement organization under common policy process systems and data.

Procurement Operations and Category Management

• Own the enterprise category strategy for direct and indirect spend and the governance that keeps it current.
• Establish supplier segmentation performance management and relationship governance models and personally own the supplier relationshipsdesignatedstrategic to ICF.
• Ensure the organization sustains market intelligence on supply base capacity pricing trends and emerging service offerings and that it acts on what that intelligence shows.
• Direct the procurement technology roadmap including source-to-pay automation analytics and spend visibility in partnership with Administrative Operations Finance and Information Technology.
• Partner with Corporate Business leaders to develop a calendar for annual spend requirements to enhance the ability to predict and staff key sourcing efforts for each department and drive cost savings for the organization.

Subcontracts

• Own the enterprisesubcontractsfunction including policy delegation of authority approval gates standard terms and template governance across all contract types.
• Ensure prime contract requirements and regulatory flow-downs are correctly applied across the subcontract portfolio and that the control environment produces the evidence to prove it.
• Establish the subcontractor risk framework coveringselection financial and performance risk and escalation and serve as the executive escalation point for critical supplier and subcontractor disputes.
• Own ICFs small and diverse business subcontracting strategy and its compliance posture including plan commitments and reporting obligations.
• Partner with capture and program leadership so that teaming and subcontracting approaches are set early in pursuit and executed to schedule after award.

Compliance Risk and Controls

• Delegated authority to commit the enterprise to supplier and subcontract obligations within thresholdsestablishedwith the Senior Vice President Contracts Procurement and Pricing.
• Own a federally approved purchasing system and the control environment that sustains it including audit readiness and successful Contractor Purchasing System Review (CPSR) outcomes.
• Ensure procurement and subcontract activitycomplies withfederal state local commercial and applicable international requirements as well as client-specific contractual terms.
• Own the functions operating budget and accountability for enterprise third-party spend performance.

Organizational Leadership

• Build and lead the global procurement and subcontracts organization including structure talent strategy leadership development and succession planning.
• Establish the performance standards metrics and reporting cadence by which the function is managed and measured.
• Foster a culture of service to the business disciplined compliance and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in business Finance Supply Chain Procurement orrelatedfield.
• 15 years of progressive procurement subcontracts and leadership experience.
• 5 years at the senior or executive level leading large geographically dispersed teams through subordinate leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree (MBA orrelatedfield).
• CPSM CIPS CPM orequivalentprofessional certification.
• Experience with source-to-pay technology transformation or other digital transformation of a procurement function.
• Knowledge of Deltek Costpoint ERP and Zycus procurement systems.
• Experience as the senior-most procurement or subcontracts executive or as a direct report to that executive in an organization of comparable size and complexity.
• Demonstrated accountability for both direct and indirect procurementandsubcontracts within a professional services or government contracting environment.
• Experienceestablishingprocurement and subcontracting policies and procedures compliant with federalrequirements andachieving or sustaining an approved purchasing system through a Contractor Purchasing System Review (CPSR).
• Depth across multiple markets supporting procurement and subcontracting for federal state local and commercial programs.
• Experience managing global supplier relationships and international procurement operations to include technology products and services (such as IT consulting services SaaS subscriptions telecommunications cloud services hardware etc.).
• Proven record in strategic sourcing supplier negotiation subcontract governance and procurement transformation at enterprise scale.
• Experience leading procurement organizations in complex matrixed environments including global supplier relationships and international operations.
• Strong financial acumen anddemonstratedability to influence and align executive stakeholders.

Success Measures

Performance in this role will be measured by enterprise outcomes rather than by activity:

• Subcontract cycle time and on-time award performance measured against program requirements.
• Purchasing cycle time and continuous process improvement.
• Savings and value delivered as a share of addressable spend.
• Effective strategic business partnership with business and corporate leaders.
• Measurable improvement in supplier and subcontractor performance and in third-party risk exposure.
• An approved purchasing system sustained with successful CPSR outcomes and clean audit results.
• Organizational maturityevidencedby a high-performing global team.

Bot and Third-Party Applications

Please note that this application must be submitted directly by the applicant for consideration.Failure to do so may result in the application being excluded for consideration.Applicants needing an accommodation for disability or religious purposes in connection with the application process should contactfor assistance.

Working at ICF

Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position including but not limited to relevant work experience skills certifications and competencies that align to the specified role geographic location education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is: