Associate Director - Procurement

Recruitment and Resourcing Manager - Infrastructure

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. We work with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. 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.

Position: Associate Director within our growing Contract Services division in the UK.

Key Responsibilities: The successful candidate will:

• 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.
• Lead and develop an outstanding team of specialist procurement and other consultants.

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.
• Manage 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.

Offer: An opportunity to progress your career within an entrepreneurial, defined and growing division, through leading the delivery of large‑scale projects, creating innovative solutions, and working with blue‑chip organisations. Further opportunities are available to travel nationally and internationally to service and manage key commissions for our blue‑chip client portfolio. Turner & Townsend encourages a hybrid method of working to provide a practical work/life balance.

We support individuals to achieve Chartered Status for CIPS and further professional development.

Qualifications:

• Experience in regulated procurement, particularly Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
• Leading strategic major procurement projects or programmes for public and private sector clients.
• Strong background in tender preparation, development and management.
• Commission, client relationship, and people management experience.
• Experience with NEC and JCT contract forms.
• Desired: cross‑sector experience and a strong public procurement background.
• Willingness to work towards MCIPs accreditation.
• Business generation experience including bid development.
• Preferable: degree related to construction, civil engineering, quantity surveying, law or procurement.
• Preferable: experience in Defence, Utilities, Infrastructure (roads, rail etc.) sectors.
• Valid (SC) Security Clearance or ability to obtain one.

Skills:

• Lead and develop key strategies and documentation for major procurement projects.
• Manage and supervise delivery teams.
• Build strong, professional client relationships and resolve issues.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
• Develop supplier evaluation, commercial principles, modelling and supply chain intelligence strategies.
• Excellent attention to detail.

Behaviours:

• Adaptable, taking personal responsibility.
• Confident, independent, trustworthy, able to influence at all levels.
• Collaborative, able to manage teams efficiently to achieve outcomes.
• Encouraging, empathetic, fair and consistent.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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