Procurement & Contracts Manager

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

Washington, DC

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Accounts Receivable, Analysis Skills, Bidding, Budget Reporting, Communication Skills, Contract Management, Contract Negotiation, Cost Control, Database Administration, Documentation, Finance, Forecasting, Leadership, Legal, Maintain Compliance, Market Tracking, Market Trend Analysis, Negotiation Skills, Operational Strategy, Operational Support, Performance Analysis, Performance Metrics, Pricing, Problem Solving Skills, Process Improvement, Procurement Management, Procurement Strategy, Professional Services, Purchase Orders, Purchasing/Procurement, Sourcing Strategy, Supplier Optimization, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Supply Chain, Time Management, Vendor/Supplier Evaluation, Vendor/Supplier Relations, Vendor/Supplier Selection
LOCATION
Washington, DC
POSTED
3 days ago

Overview

Lewis Brisbois, a national full service AmLaw 100 law firm, is seeking a Procurement Manager for our Washington, D.C. office. The Procurement Manager serves as the procurement lead for the firm and helps oversee the organization's purchasing strategy, ensuring all goods and services are acquired at the best possible balance of cost, quality, and reliability. This role builds and manages vendor relationships, manages the contract database, works with department leads to assist in negotiations, and partners with internal teams to streamline procurement workflows and support operational and strategic goals.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience in professional services, along with strong leadership, communication, and change‑management capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the end‑to‑end procurement lifecycle, including sourcing, bidding, vendor selection, contract negotiation, and purchase order execution.
  • Develop and execute the company's procurement strategy, aligning purchasing decisions with organizational goals.
  • Evaluate and onboard suppliers, maintaining strong ongoing relationships and monitoring performance through KPIs.
  • Collaborate with cross‑functional partners (Legal, Finance, IT, Operations, etc.) to forecast needs, consolidate purchasing power, and ensure compliance.
  • Identify cost‑saving opportunities through strategic sourcing, process improvements, and vendor optimization.
  • Track market trends, pricing, and supply chain risks to inform decision‑making.
  • Oversee procurement policies, documentation, and systems to ensure accuracy, transparency, and audit readiness.
  • Resolve supplier issues, delivery challenges, and quality concerns in a timely manner.
  • Prepare and present procurement reports, budget analysis, and recommendations to leadership.

Lewis Brisbois is not accepting search firm submissions for this position.

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About the Company

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Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

Our national practice is sophisticated, multi-faceted and well-versed in current legal trends, while our individual state practices provide vast resources and knowledge of procedural and legal nuances. Lewis Brisbois offers legal practice in more than 35 specialties, and a multitude of sub-specialties associated with each practice area. Our attorneys have broad knowledge, expertise, and sensitivity to their clients’ unique needs. Through interaction among its practice groups, Lewis Brisbois provides a wide range of legal services to each client with a continuity of representation over multiple disciplines. We have built longstanding relationships with corporate and institutional clients based on our ability to provide comprehensive service on a national scale.

At Lewis Brisbois, diversity is an integral part of our firm culture and our daily life. We accomplish diversity not by committee or initiative, but through the true and committed practice of hiring the best people for the job and consistently rewarding excellence. The success of these policies is reflected in the fact that Lewis Brisbois has repeatedly received national recognition for its commitment to embracing diversity. Lewis Brisbois is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse group of talented lawyers and staff, and demonstrates that commitment through non-discriminatory hiring, retention and promotion policies. The diversity of the firm’s client base is matched by the diversity of our attorneys.

With offices from Los Angeles to New York, our attorneys reflect the communities in which they live. The firm’s culture has fostered a diverse group of professionals committed to promoting the best interests of our clients, our communities and the legal profession. We are committed to supporting diversity through new and ongoing relationships with minority and women-owned businesses.

Lewis Brisbois is known for its commitment to principled advocacy, an unflinching work ethic, and unyielding recognition of our duty to provide the highest level of service to our clients, who choose us because we take the time to understand their business interests and philosophies. We have developed sophisticated proprietary risk evaluation and litigation management processes that many of our clients have incorporated into their business practices, and we help them manage and defend claims and litigation. As a result, they are avoiding and reducing losses that impact their bottom line.

Our practice includes pre-suit counseling and problem solving based on a structured and accurate analysis of likely outcome. We know our clients’ objectives are often best served by a pre-suit resolution, and we are often judged by the advice and counsel we provide toward that end. However, when trial is the answer and in the client’s best interest, no law firm in this country understands and better executes a trial strategy than Lewis Brisbois. We are truly client driven and result oriented.

COMPANY SIZE
1,500 to 1,999 employees
INDUSTRY
Legal Services
FOUNDED
1979
WEBSITE
http://lewisbrisbois.com/