Associate Director - Procurement

Associate Director – Procurement

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Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. We deliver real‐estate, infrastructure, energy and natural‑resource projects, providing programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply‑chain, net‑zero and digital solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive change in the largest organisations in the country.
• Engage on and influence large‑scale flagship projects.
• Impact across multiple industries and categories.
• Challenge yourself 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.

Qualifications

• Experience in and/or knowledge of regulated procurement, in particular Public Contract Regulations 2015 with an awareness of the Green Paper and potential changes to the public procurement regime.
• Leading strategic major procurement projects or programmes for public and private sector clients.
• A strong background in tender preparation, development and management ideally including negotiation.
• Commission, client relationship and people management.
• Experience of developing and using various forms of contracts with particular focus on NEC and JCT.
• Cross‑sector experience with a strong public procurement background is highly desirable.
• Have achieved, working towards or willing to work towards MCIPs accreditation.
• Business generation including bid development.
• Preferably possess a degree related to construction, civil engineering, quantity surveying, law or procurement.
• Preferably possess experience working in Defence, Utilities, Infrastructure (roads, rail etc) sectors.
• (SC) Security Clearance – currently valid or could be reinstated.

Skills

• Ability to lead and develop key strategies and documentation for major procurement projects that complies with Public Sector Regulations or equivalent.
• Able to manage and supervise the delivery of others for a successful outcome.
• Able to build strong, professional client relationships and proactively identify and resolve client’s issues.
• Excellent communication skills, adaptable, with a determination to succeed.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage a wide range of stakeholders and develop ongoing relationships.
• Able to develop supplier evaluation and commercial principles and modelling strategies.
• Able to develop Supply Chain Intelligence strategies and analysis.
• Able to develop Supplier Relationship Management strategies and activities.
• Able to manage work/business development/career development activities.
• Excellent attention to detail.

Behaviours

• Adaptable and taking personal responsibility to succeed.
• Confident, independent and trustworthy, able to influence individuals at all levels.
• Collaborative and with the ability to develop/manage a team and individuals efficiently to achieve desired outcomes.
• Encouraging and empathetic whilst also fair and consistent when supporting individuals.

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.

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

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