Senior Temporaries Consultant in Edinburgh

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people's lives. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

Our Programme Advisory (PA) business unit has a proven track record of working with public and private sector clients to deliver complex strategies, set-up, and transformations for major programmes both in the UK and globally. Our Programme Commercial Advisory team within PA supports iconic clients across a wide range of sectors through designing, developing, implementing, and optimising commercial strategies, commercial models, and functional operating models.

We are seeking talented individuals at Consultant, Senior Consultant and Principal Consultant grades across multiple UK locations who are seeking the next step in their career supporting our clients' major programmes and organisation in setting a new standard of supply chain and commercial delivery for the industry. As part of our Programme Commercial Advisory team, you will be in a unique position to influence and transform performance on the world's most impactful programmes for a green, inclusive, and productive world.

Key aspects of the role include (but are not limited to):

• Understanding and communicating the key strategic levers to enable successful outcomes-driven commercial environments for clients.
• Able to guide clients in understanding how to establish optimal commercial approaches throughout the asset lifecycle.
• Ability to utilise your experience and contribute to translating a client's vision into effective and realistic commercial solutions, including incentivisation.
• Ability to deploy and/or optimise commercial management strategies, processes, tools, and systems and tailoring our standard methodologies to client needs.
• Proactively connect and collaborate with diverse and multi-disciplinary teams both internally and externally.
• Developing strong relationships with client stakeholders at all levels.
• Supporting clients to deliver effective change management.
• Supporting key activities within the Programme Advisory team including internal development of commercial service transformation products and methodologies.
• Identify, contribute to and progress business generation opportunities where appropriate, working closely alongside senior leadership and wider Turner & Townsend teams.

Qualifications:

• A deep understanding of one or more of infrastructure, defence and/or energy and natural resources markets, and associated commercial requirements.
• Awareness of the commercial lifecycle and how this supports clients.
• Ability to understand and operate within large-scale, complex environments.
• Experience of delivering projects within commercial/transformational environments.
• Familiarity with construction industry context, models, and initiatives (e.g. Construction Playbook, Project 13).
• Familiarity with relevant legislative requirements (e.g. public/sector procurement regulations).
• Qualified, or in an advanced process of becoming qualified in MCIPS, RICS or equivalent professional qualification is desirable.

Consultancy:

• Experience of leading and managing multiple projects and maintaining quality deliverables against challenging timelines.
• Excellent communication skills including active listening, presentation, and written communication.
• The ability to provide insights to our clients through clear and succinct communications.
• Flexible with a can-do attitude and a strong eye for detail.
• Able to work and thrive in multi-stakeholder environments.
• Experience of delivering change management.

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.