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The ERP Public Sector (Local government) Selection Consultant is responsible for all phases of planning and execution of State, Local or County enterprise software and services procurement. This position supports the local government client in developing procurement strategy, defining project mission, goals and objectives, gathering system requirements, authoring requests for proposals (RFPs) or requests for information (RFIs) along with associated procurement materials, facilitating the vendor evaluation and selection process, and supporting contract negotiations to the awarded vendor.

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This role requires executive briefing skills, strong organizational and technical writing skills, group facilitation skills as well as knowledge of the procurement process. The primary responsibility for the Selection Consultant is objectively leading the client through a well-designed, documented solicitation and evaluation process that is not protested and results in a clear statement of work and contract with a qualified vendor.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Qualifications :

• Ten years recent experience with solicitation and vendor evaluation on large, complex public sector IT projects, preferably ERP-related.
• Possesses knowledge and experience in local government procurement strategies.
• Demonstrated experience in successfully leading all phases of a vendor evaluation and selection.
• Adept at learning the client business, creating internal partnerships, fostering collaboration and recommending strategies that fit the client culture and business model.
• Experience developing / creating public sector procurement documents (e.g., RFPs) and related acquisition documents for software products and services.
• Ability to craft evaluation materials including Evaluation Guide, demonstration scripts, interview scripts, scoring criteria, scoring analyses and others.
• Ability to provide high level expertise across a broad range of business and IT-related subject matter areas.
• Experience with procurement policies and procedures.
• Experience negotiating and managing software and services contracts.
• State, local or County experience (prefer five years at multiple client engagements).
• Strong presentation, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex ideas in easy to understand business terms to all levels of management including Executive Leaders.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple competing priorities with high attention to detail.
• Possesses strong analytical skills and good listening skills with ability to effectively coach and mentor others; must be able to lead by influence.
• Exhibits effective team skills.
• Ability to make decisions at the project team level and properly escalate those decisions that cannot be resolved on a timely basis.

Education :

Computer Literacy :

Demonstrates working knowledge with MS-Office suite of software applications and tools, including : Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS-Project, MS-Outlook.

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