Senior Procurement Manager

6 days ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Turner & Townsend Group Full time
Job Title: Senior Procurement Manager

At Turner & Townsend, we are passionate about delivering better outcomes for our clients and helping our people realise their potential. As a Senior Procurement Manager in our Defence team, you will play a key role in achieving this goal.

We have a number of opportunities for experienced Commercial/Procurement Managers to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for providing commercial service delivery within budget, on time, and ensuring that commercial strategies contribute to cross-government and departmental procurement agendas.

The successful candidate will have at least 10 years' commercial experience and be qualified to Practitioner or Expert level in commercial functional competence and skills. You will also have a degree in Project Management, Commercial Management, Business, Law, or equivalent, and chartered status with additional relevant work experience.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading professional services company and work on high-profile projects in the Defence sector. You will have the chance to develop your skills and expertise while working with a talented team of professionals.

About the Role:
  • Accountable for ensuring that commercial strategies contribute to cross-government and departmental procurement agendas;
  • Conducting commercial assurance of business cases, commercial strategies, and contracting approaches to ensure sound commercial practices are being applied;
  • Providing commercial service delivery within budget, on time;
  • Examining risks to project commercial success and implementing appropriate mitigations;
  • Developing supplier management strategies to maximise commercial leverage;
  • Devising and developing the strategy for transition to contract management;
  • Development and implementation of effective contract and supplier management strategies to extract maximum value from contracts, motivate performance, and drive innovation;
  • Proactive monitoring and contract management to deliver enduring thru-life value-for-money solutions;
  • Providing timely feedback on supplier performance issues, successes, and contractual risk to senior project leaders;
  • Enforcing contracts through generating considerations, identifying performance trends, and taking appropriate action, evaluating non-conformance, dispute resolution, and applying enforcement tools and remedies as necessary.

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