Senior Procurement Consultant

7 months ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Turner & Townsend Full time

**Company Description**
Turner & Townsend is a leading global consultancy, with around 3,000 employees in the UK and over 6,000 globally. We are a growing organisation and recently ranked number 1 in the Times PWC Top Track 250. This is a dynamic and innovative company, quick to respond to market trends and with a reputation for quality.

At T&T we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Our three core Values are Love a Challenge, Stronger Together and Bring out the Best in Everyone, these bring T&T’s Purpose and Values to life in everything we do, now and in the future. It helps us bring out the best in everyone by sharing clear expectations of what’s required of ourselves and others across the business.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver challenging and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Our Contract Services team has over 140 employees located in our offices or seconded within client teams across the UK. We deliver services to a range of public and private sector clients with a focus in central and local government, defence, transport, power and utilities.
**Job Description** Background**:
Due to increased workload and securing of new clients across the Public and Private sectors, we have new opportunities for Senior Procurement Consultants to join our growing Contract Services team in our UK offices.
- Work with some of the most exciting large-scale project in the Country,
- Deliver advice and make a difference on flagship projects,
- Challenge themselves in a market leading global business,
- Develop their career in an entrepreneurial, motivated and growing team,
- Work with an outstanding team of specialist procurement and other specialist consultants.

The Contract Services team includes specialists in procurement and contract strategy, claims management and dispute resolution services.

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 in the construction sector. Our Team received a Procurement Excellence Programme Award demonstrating excellence in our procurement and supply chain activities.

**The Opportunity**:
The individual will work with our highly skilled team delivering best-in-class strategic procurement and contract advice, including end-to-end procurement services to some of the larger brands and on the most exciting 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.

**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.
- 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.

**The Offer**:
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 and regular Professional Development will be available to further the team’s high standards.

Further opportunities are available to travel both nationally and internationally to service and manage key commissions for our blue chip client portfolio.
**Qualifications**
To deliver for our clients, we are looking for a mixture of the following:
**Experience and Qualifications**:

- Experience of leading and/or supporting projects in a strategic procurement environment.
- A strong background in tender preparation and development of respective documents in relevant sectors (including design and preparation of the process and key documentation).
- Experience of leading and/or supporting in supplier engagement activities, to include market engagement through to contract award.
- Cross sector experience with Public/Utili



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