Procurement Consultant - All Levels (Security Cleared)
* Full-time
Turner & Townsend (T&T) is a leading global consultancy business serving clients in the real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors, with around 4,000 employees in the UK and over 10,000 globally. We are a growing and innovative organisation who are quick to respond to market trends and have an exceptional reputation for integrity and quality.
Our Contract Services team has over 140 employees located in our offices or seconded within client teams across the UK. We deliver services to a range of public and private sector clients with a focus in central and local government, defence, infrastructure, power, and utilities.
Background:
Due to increased workloads and securing additional clients across both Public and Private sectors, we have a new opportunity for a Senior Procurement Consultant to join our growing Contract Services team within our UK offices.
The Opportunity:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work alongside a highly skilled team delivering best-in-class strategic procurement and contract advice, including end-to-end procurement services to our key account clients covering transformational programmes and projects. This role will play a significant part in the continued expansion of our team and our services in this exciting period of growth, such as Sustainable Procurement, Transformation, Renewables, Digital Procurement and Net Zero Strategies.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide specialist procurement strategy advice to Public and Private sector clients.
* Manage and collaborate with a team on end-to-end procurement services for major projects or programmes.
* Support clients in the post-contract Contract Management of major projects.
* Support the development of the procurement services provided by T&T.
* Support business development and marketing of the Contract Services team’s service proposition.
* Support the delivery of both team and wider business targets.
* Assist on bid preparation and proposal documentation to support the work-winning capability of the Contract Services team.
Skills and Experience:
* Experience of leading and/or supporting projects in a strategic procurement environment.
* A strong background in tender preparation, processes, and development of respective key documents in relevant sectors.
* Experience of leading and/or supporting in supplier engagement activities, to include market engagement through to contract award.
* Cross sector experience with Utilities/Defence and Security/Public Contract Regulations or equivalent.
* Experience of using a range of standard model contract approaches, particularly NEC4.
* Experience in post-contract Contract Management, providing advice to clients on commercial and contractual matters.
* Have achieved - or is working towards/willing to work towards MCIPs accreditation.
* Preferably possess a degree related to construction, civil engineering, quantity surveying, law or procurement.
* Preferably possess experience working in the Defence and/or Infrastructure sectors.
* Ideally hold Security Clearance (SC) – currently valid or could be reinstated.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
* Adaptable and taking personal responsibility to succeed the right way.
* Confident, independent, and able to work with autonomy.
* Ability to collaborate and manage a team to achieve desired outcomes.
We offer a competitive remuneration package and company benefits which include a generous pension scheme, discounted private life assurance, medical and health insurance for you and your family.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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