Senior Procurement Strategist for Major Projects (Hybrid)

Turner & Townsend; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Procurement Consultant to join our Contract Services team. You will deliver end-to-end procurement services on flagship projects across public and private sectors, advising on strategy and governance.

You will work with a team of procurement specialists, develop innovative solutions, and have opportunities to travel nationally and internationally while pursuing chartered status with CIPS.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and/or supporting projects in a strategic procurement environment.
• Strong background in tender preparation and development of respective key documents in relevant sectors.
• Experience of leading and/or supporting 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 compliant 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 emphasis on 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Strategic procurement

Tender preparation

Supplier engagement

Cross sector experience

NEC4

Alliancing contracts

Contract management

MCIPs accreditation

Security clearance

Supply chain intelligence

Commercial modelling

Stakeholder management

Autonomy

Team collaboration

Procurement strategy

Education

Bachelor’s degree in construction/CE/QS/law/procurement

Tools

NEC4

Job description

Turner & Townsend in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Procurement Consultant to join our Contract Services team. You will deliver end-to-end procurement services on flagship projects across public and private sectors, advising on strategy and governance.

You will work with a team of procurement specialists, develop innovative solutions, and have opportunities to travel nationally and internationally while pursuing chartered status with CIPS.