The role is responsible for conducting market research, drafting statements of work and deliverables, preparing RFPs, devising evaluation methodologies, weighting, and sourcing strategies for assigned IT categories, including SaaS, cloud services, and managed services-while serving as the negotiation lead for complex, high-value IT agreements including enterprise licensing, cloud subscriptions, managed services agreements. Proficient understanding of contracting methods and contract types, including cost and incentive contracting, award fee, multiple awards, special provisions relating to proprietary rights and rights in data to manage and coordinate activities sufficient to control a variety of contractual actions of a major department/office occurring concurrently, in an overlapping fashion, or sequentially and to control several simultaneous interrelated contracts with different contractors.