Buyer III - Procurement Capital Construction

Turner & Townsend; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services firm with extensive procurement leadership responsibilities. The role involves supervising commodity teams, researching sources, and developing bid specifications to improve procurement practices.

The position requires thorough knowledge of procurement policies and experience with large-scale architectural, engineering, and construction services, with an emphasis on independence and continuous process improvements.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in business administration, finance, or a related field.
• Thorough technical experience in large-scale procurement of diverse architectural, engineering, and construction services.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and coordinate commodity group teams; conduct research for negotiations of contracts.
• Analyze and develop improvements in bid invitations, specifications, and procurement practices.
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations while identifying opportunities for process improvements.
• Maintain SOX control responsibilities as applicable.

Skills

Procurement knowledge

Negotiation

Vendor relations

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration or related field

Job description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over22,000 peoplein more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure,energyand 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 estateservicesand 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.

This is specialized and advancing professional work in large-scale purchasing and contracting for architectural, engineering, and construction services.

Responsibilities

Work involves responsibility for supervising and coordinating commodity group teams, conducting research as a preliminary to and basis for negotiations of contracts, and the analysis and development of improvements in bid invitations, specifications, and other features of procurement practice.

Work is required to be performed in conformity with applicable laws and regulations, but the employee of this class is expected to proceed with substantial independence in evaluating existing practices and procedures and in identifying and exploiting opportunities for improvements therein.

Work is subject to review by the Purchasing Agent where significant procedural changes are involved, but work is appraised primarily in terms of quality of constructive work in strengthening the effectiveness of procurement operations.

Key Attributes

• Analyzes distribution of work among commodity teams in interest of achieving improvements in workload balance and maximizing the use of available resources;
  • evaluates the quality of reference and technical materials available for use by buyers in identifying and evaluating sources and product.
  • develops detailed plans for improvements in these areas.
• Conducts research into sources of supplies and services; develops criteria for use in making preliminary selections from among possible bidders.
• Plans and develops resource files for use in identification and pre-qualification of bidders.
• Analyzes form and content of bid invitations and specifications for supplies, equipment, and services so as to improve the quality and responsiveness of bids and proposals.
• Performs related work as required.
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

• Thorough knowledge of modern procurement policies, procedures, and practices.
• Thorough knowledge of sources of supplies and services, prices, and market conditions and trends.
• Thorough knowledge of the needs of vendors and contractors for information as a basis for providing pertinent, informed, and meaningful bids and proposals.
• Considerable ability in evaluating and developing improvements in procurement practices and procedures and administrative arrangements and staffing for their conduct.
• Considerable ability in written and oral expression.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective work relations with colleagues, vendors, suppliers, and served agencies.

Education and Experience

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in business administration, finance, or a related field.
• Thorough technical experience in large-scale procurement of diverse architectural, engineering, and construction services.

The salary range for this full-time role is$100K-$115 per year.

*On site requirements might change based on client needs

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.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

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