Procurement Consultant - All Levels (Security Cleared)

Turner & Townsend; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development opportunities

Hybrid working model

Support for achieving CIPS accreditation

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in the UK is seeking a Procurement Consultant to provide strategic procurement advice and manage end-to-end procurement services for major public and private projects. The role offers a unique opportunity to work on large-scale, impactful projects within a supportive, hybrid working environment. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in procurement, especially within utilities and security sectors, with experience in NEC4 contracts. This role supports professional development towards CIPS accreditation.

Qualifications

• Experience in strategic procurement environment.
• Strong background in tender processes and key documentation development.
• Experience in managing end-to-end procurement services.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist procurement strategy advice to clients.
• Manage and collaborate on end-to-end procurement services.
• Support post-contract management of major projects.

Skills

Strategic procurement expertise

Tender preparation

Supplier engagement

Experience with NEC4 contracts

Commercial principles understanding

Excellent communication skills

Education

Degree in construction, civil engineering, quantity surveying, law, or procurement

Job description

Procurement Consultant - All Levels (Security Cleared)

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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

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 within the construction sector. Our Team received the Procurement Excellence Programme Award demonstrating excellence in our procurement and supply chain activities.

The Opportunity

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to 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 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.

T&T will be offering the successful candidate a distinct opportunity to rapidly progress their career within an entrepreneurial, defined, and growing team. This will be achieved through a mixture of experiencing large scale projects, developing innovative solutions, working with Blue Chip organisations and becoming trusted experts. With further opportunities available to travel both nationally and internationally to service and manage key commissions for our growing global client portfolio.

Turner & Townsend encourages a hybrid method of working to provide a practical work/life balance that recognises the challenges that life brings.

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.

Main Expectations

• To provide specialist procurement strategy advice to Public and Private sector clients
• To manage and collaborate with a team on end-to-end procurement services for major projects or programmes
• To support clients in the post-contract Contract Management of major projects
• Support the development of the procurement services provided by T&T
• To support business development and marketing of the Contract Services team’s service proposition
• To support the delivery of both team and wider business targets
• To support on bid preparation and proposal documentation and support the work-winning capability of the Contract Services team.

Qualifications

Skills and Experience

• 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, to include 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 complaint 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 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.
• Be able to manage multiple activities and stakeholders.
• Ability to collaborate and develop and/or manage a team to achieve desired outcomes.

Additional Information

Our people share our Purpose and Values. Turner & Townsend provides a great place to work, where everyone can make change happen and influence a better world.

We champion our people to succeed in both work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

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.

If this sounds like a challenge you’d like to hear more about, please submit an application for our recruitment team to review.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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

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