Contract Manager; Grades – Services

• Full-time
• Department:
  Infrastructure

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.

Due to increased workload and securing of new clients across the Defence, Infrastructure, Energy & Natural Resources and Real Estate sectors, Turner & Townsend has a new opportunity for a Contract Manager to join our growing Programme Advisory – Contract Services division in our UK offices.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to:

• Drive change in the largest organisations in the country,
• Engage on and influence large‑scale flagship projects,
• Impact across multiple industries and categories,
• Challenge themselves in a market‑leading global business,
• Create new and innovative service offerings to the Market,
• Manage the full lifecycle of contracts across major programmes, ensuring obligations, deliverables, risks, and dependencies are controlled.

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.

The Opportunity:

The Contract Manager will support Turner & Townsend’s Programme Advisory service line by delivering contract and commercial management across high value, complex programmes. The role is central to ensuring that contractual arrangements, commercial strategy and supplier performance enables the successful delivery of client transformation and capital programmes.

Operating as part of Turner & Townsend’s end‑to‑end Procurement Advisory capability, the Contract Manager will be supported by procurement in developing contracting strategies, manage commercial risk, and ensure supplier governance and compliance, value for money, and alignment with programme objectives.

This role will be a part of our established team and play a significant part in the continued expansion of our services in this exciting period of growth with existing and new clients.

• Lead and manage contract management on major projects and/or programmes supported by Turner & Townsend.
• Lead contract governance reviews including variations, extensions, change control, and dispute management.
• Provide strategic project and commercial advice to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Produce clear commercial analysis to support decision‑making.
• Managing client relationships and related commission outputs and deliverables.
• Support business development and marketing of the team’s service proposition.
• Oversee contract performance management including KPIs, SLAs, service credits, escalation protocols, and risk mitigation.
• Run contract management activities including but not limited to performance reviews and contract review boards.
• Support procurement, transformation, supplier relationship management and claims and dispute teams providing contract management advice and expertise.

The

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 delivery of large‑scale projects, creating innovative solutions and service offerings, elevating…