Global Procurement & Subcontracts Leader

ICF International; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF is seeking a Vice President, Global Procurement and Subcontracts to serve as the enterprise's senior-most procurement executive, accountable for the full procurement lifecycle across purchasing, strategic sourcing, and subcontracts. Based in Reston, VA with a hybrid schedule, this leader defines strategy, builds the operating model, and owns performance, compliance, and risk for the function worldwide.

The role directs a global team across direct/indirect purchasing, category management,

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a global procurement and subcontracts strategy aligned to ICF's growth objectives, 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 team and in audits, 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 unifies the procurement organization under common policy, process, systems, and data.
• 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 relationships designated strategic 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.
• Own the enterprise subcontracts function, 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 covering selection, financial and performance risk, and escalation, and serve as the executive escalation point for critical supplier and subcontractor disputes.
• Own ICF's 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.
• Delegated authority to commit the enterprise to supplier and subcontract obligations within thresholds established with 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 activity complies with federal, state, local, commercial, and applicable international requirements, as well as client-specific contractual terms.
• Own the function's operating budget and accountability for enterprise third-party spend performance.
• 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.

Job description

ICF is seeking a Vice President, Global Procurement and Subcontracts to serve as the enterprise's senior-most procurement executive, accountable for the full procurement lifecycle across purchasing, strategic sourcing, and subcontracts. Based in Reston, VA with a hybrid schedule, this leader defines strategy, builds the operating model, and owns performance, compliance, and risk for the function worldwide.

The role directs a global team across direct/indirect purchasing, category management,