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, innovative organisation who are quick to respond to market trends and have an exceptional reputation for integrity and quality. With our depth of expertise and proactive approach, we help our major global clients deliver challenging and highly technical projects in over 130 countries worldwide.
At T&T we’re passionate about making a difference and transforming performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Our three core values are: “Love a Challenge, Stronger Together and Bring out the Best in Everyone.” These bring T&T’s purpose and values to life in everything we do, now and in the future.
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 on 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 Successful candidate will have the opportunity to:
* Work on some of the most exciting large-scale projects in the country
* Deliver advice and make a difference on flagship projects
* Challenge themselves in a market-leading global business
* Work with an outstanding team of procurement specialists and other specialist consultants including claims management and dispute resolution
* Develop their career within an entrepreneurial, motivated, and growing team
The Opportunity:
The successful candidate will 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 be part of our growing Contract Services team and 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.
T&T will offer the successful candidate a distinct opportunity to rapidly progress their career within an entrepreneurial, defined, and growing team through experiencing large scale projects, developing innovative solutions, and working with Blue Chip organisations.
We are keen to ensure that our team is delivering best practice in our procurement practices and therefore we will be encouraging and supporting individuals to achieve chartered status for CIPS, as well as regular professional development being available to further skills and knowledge.
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
* Support on bid preparation and proposal documentation
Skills and Experience:
To deliver for our clients, we are looking for an individual with strong experience across the following:
* 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, from market engagement through to contract award.
* Cross-sector experience with Utilities/Defence and Security/Public Contract Regulations or equivalent, and ability to lead and develop key procurement strategies and/or compliant documentation.
* Experience of using a range of standard model contract approaches, with a particular emphasis on NEC4.
* Experience in Alliancing/Partnership Contract arrangements.
* Experience in post-contract Contract Management, providing advice to clients on commercial and contractual matters, again with a particular emphasis on experience gained under NEC4.
* 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.
* Ability to develop supply chain intelligence strategies.
* Understanding of commercial principles and modelling and experience in developing commercial models covering a range of complexity.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
* Adaptable and taking personal responsibility to succeed the right way.
* Confident, independent, and able to work with autonomy without need for supervision.
* Ability to manage multiple activities and stakeholders.
* Ability to collaborate and develop and/or manage a team to achieve desired outcomes.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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, corporate gym membership allowance, parental leave, social events, health and wellbeing assessments, purchasing annual leave, flu vaccinations, and an employee assistance program.
Turner & Townsend complies with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) which requires public U.S. companies to meet strict reporting and security standards. SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, and are to be adhered to where applicable.
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