Procurement Consultant - All Levels (Security Cleared)

Turner & Townsend; Ledston; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Procurement Consultant to join our UK Contract Services team. The role focuses on delivering strategic procurement and end-to-end services for flagship projects across Public and Private sectors, with opportunities to travel nationally and internationally.

You will work with a skilled team, develop innovative solutions, support bid activities, and drive Chartered status and professional development to strengthen procurement capabilities across projects.

Qualifications

• Experience leading procurement projects across public and private sectors.
• Strong background in tender preparation and document development.
• Experience in supplier engagement from market to contract award.
• Cross-sector experience incl. utilities/defence/public procurement regulations.
• Familiarity with NEC4 contract forms and alliancing/partnership arrangements.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist procurement strategy advice to public and private sector clients.
• Lead and collaborate on end-to-end procurement services for major programmes.
• Support post-contract contract management for major projects.
• Support development of Turner & Townsend's procurement services.
• Assist in business development and marketing of the Contract Services team.
• Help deliver team and wider business targets.
• Assist in bid preparation and proposal documentation.

Skills

Strategic procurement

Tender processes

Supplier engagement

NEC4 contracts

MCIPs accreditation

Stakeholder management

Tools

Contract models NEC4

Job description

Job Description

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

To deliver for our clients, we are looking for an individual with strong experience across the following:

• 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 inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in 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 and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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