Associate Director - Procurement, Contracts and Supply Chain - Program Advisory

Associate Director - Procurement, Contracts and Supply Chain - Program Advisory

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Company Description

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.

Turner & Townsend are recruiting procurement, contracts, and supply chain professionals for our Program Advisory business. Our mission is to provide transformational and strategic advice by leveraging our expertise in the infrastructure, real estate and natural resources sectors; and deliver tangible value to our clients. Our focus is to bring innovation to our clients and our projects, focusing on the next generation advisory techniques including procurement modelling, digitalization, and sustainability.

We are looking for highly motivated individuals who would like to help us grow our business and bring a step change to procurement in the program advisory industry. You will have the opportunity to work with experts in the field of procurement, contracts and supply chain, develop new capabilities and work on some of the most exciting projects in North America.

At the same time, you will be at the forefront of our thought leadership and part in the development of our toolkit.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on transformational, strategic or delivery roles on major programs. Some of the roles that you will be delivering include:

• Implementation of transformational initiatives:
  • Category management
  • Program contract development
  • Supply chain rationalization
  • Supplier relationship management
  • Supplier performance management
  • Procurement centers of excellence
  • Innovation and industrial strategy
  • Collaboration business relationship strategies
  • Compliance management
• Implementation of strategic initiatives:
  • Market intelligence analysis
  • Delivery models and procurement and contract strategies
  • Supply chain integration strategy
  • Business case and commercial strategies
  • Contract performance strategy
• Delivery of major programs and projects:
  • Market engagement
  • Development of procurement and contract documentation
  • RFP and proposal management and evaluation
  • Commercial contract drafting
  • Contract and commercial alignment
  • Contract performance management
  • Commercial peer reviews

In addition to the delivery of our projects and commissions, the candidates will have direct influence in the development and delivery of the Turner & Townsend strategy. We thrive in continuous improvement and developing new and more efficient techniques to deliver projects for our clients. From procurement and commercial modelling to the use of technology in procurement, contracts and supply chain management, we are looking for candidates who share the same passion for making a difference.

Some of the additional duties that we would like you to help us with are:

• Contributing to the development our capabilities catalogue, focusing on how technology can help our clients and our industry
• Help with the management of the team, providing support and team management
• Assist with our business development and business acquisition activities
• Helping us to create a better place to work through our People initiatives
• Take ownership for specific corporate programs and deliver tangible results
• Engage…