Certified Professional Contract Manager
Contract management professionals who have mastered the majority of the contract management competencies in the Contract Management Body of Knowledge (CMBOK), have extensive business education and training, and a minimum of 5 years of contract management experience can apply for the CPCM certification.
Skills / Knowledge
- Contract Management
- Negotiation
- Procurement
- Active Listening
- Adaptability
- Analytics
- Brainstorming
- Budgeting
- Business Development
- Change Management
- Coaching
- Conflict Resolution
- Constructive Criticism
- Continuous Learning
- Corporate Governance
- Creativity
- Critical Thinking
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Data Management
- Deadline Management
- Decision-Making
- Delegation
- Dependable
- Employee Relations
- Flexibility
- Individual Competence
- Initiative
- Integrity
- Interpersonal Skills
- Knowledge Management
- Leadership
- Logical Thinking
- Management
- Mentoring
- Motivating
- Personal Character
- Problem Solving
- Project Coordination
- Project Management
- Project Planning
- Public Speaking
- Relationship Management
- Research
- Sales
- Self-Drive
- Self-Management
- Strategic Planning
- Team Building
- Team Leadership
- Time Management
- Training
- Verbal Communication
- Working Collaboratively
- Written Communication
- Acquisition Integration
- Acquisition Planning
- Analysis
- Auditing
- Award Life Cycle
- Budgets
- Business Ethics
- Business Process Improvement
- Capital Budgeting
- CCCM
- CFCM
- Commercial Contracting
- Competitive Analysis
- Contract Administration
- Contract Changes
- Contract Closeout
- Contract Law
- Contract Life Cycle
- Contract Management Body of Knowledge
- CMBOK
- Contract Negotiation
- Contract Principles
- Contract Stakeholders
- Contract Types
- Cost Accounting
- Cost Analysis
- Cost Benefit Analysis
- Cost Realism Analysis
- CPCM
- CPSR
- Defense Contracting
- DFARS
- Document Management
- DoD
- Earned Value Management
- E-Procurement
- Export Controls
- FAR
- Federal Law
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Management
- Forecasting
- Government Contracting
- Government Procurement
- Grants
- Guiding Principles
- Integration
- Intellectual Property
- International Contracting
- Inventory Management
- Legal Conformity
- Logistics Management
- Manufacturing
- Materials Management
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Negotiations
- Non-disclosure Agreements
- Operations Management
- Policy
- Policy Analysis
- Post-award Life Cycle
- Pre-award Life Cycle
- Price Analysis
- Pricing
- Process Engineering
- Process Improvement
- Program Evaluation
- Proposal Support
- Proposal Writing
- Public Policy
- Purchasing
- Quality Assurance
- Quality Control
- Regulatory Compliance
- Requesting Offers
- Risk Assessment
- Risk Management
- Situational Assessment
- Source Selection
- Standards of Conduct
- Strategic Sourcing
- Strategy
- Subcontracts Management
- Supply Chain
- Supply Management
- System Administration
- Systems Engineering
- Team Dynamics
- Teaming Agreements
- Uniform Commercial Code
- Vendor Management
- Win Strategy Development
- Federal Acquisition Regulation
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