Associate Director - Procurement

Overview

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

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Due to increased workload and securing of new clients across the Infrastructure and Real Estate sectors, Turner & Townsend has a new opportunity for an Associate Director to join our growing Contract Services division in our UK offices. The individual will work and lead our highly skilled team delivering best-in-class strategic procurement and contract advice, including end-to-end procurement services to some of the larger brands and on the most exciting programmes and projects.

This role will be a 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.

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Offer:

Turner & Townsend will offer the right candidate a distinct opportunity to progress their career within an entrepreneurial, defined and growing division. This will be achieved through a mixture of leading the delivering large scale projects, creating innovative solutions and service offerings, elevating the T&T Contract Services team, working with blue chip organisations and becoming a trusted and visible expert with Turner & Townsend and the Market.

Main Expectations:

• Provide specialist procurement strategy advice to Public and Private sector clients.
• Lead and manage end to end procurement services on major projects or programmes.
• Lead and support the development of the procurement services provided by Turner & Townsend.
• Lead and develop a team to achieve successful outcomes for our clients.
• Managing client relationships and related commission outputs and deliverables.
• Lead and support business development and marketing of the Contract Services team’s service proposition.
• Lead on bid preparation and proposal documentation and support the work winning capability of the contract services division.
• Support the delivery of both team and wider business targets.

The wider team also includes specialists in procurement and contract strategy, claims management and dispute resolution services.

We are the first consultancy to be recognised by the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) for excellence in the procurement processes that it provides for clients in the construction sector. Our Team received a Procurement Excellence Programme Award demonstrating excellence in our procurement and supply chain activities.

Qualifications

Experience and Qualifications:

• Experience in and/or knowledge of regulated procurement, in particular Public Contract Regulations 2015 with an awareness of the Green Paper and potential changes to the public procurement regime.
• Leading strategic major procurement projects or programmes for Public and Private sector clients.
• A strong background in tender preparation, development and management ideally including negotiation.
• Commission, client relationship, and people management
• Experience of developing and using various forms of contracts with particular focus on NEC and JCT.
• Cross sector experience with a strong public procurement background is highly desirable,
• Have achieved, working towards or willing to work towards MCIPs accreditation.
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