Defence Procurement Specialist

4 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Turner & Townsend Group Full time

**Company Overview:** Turner & Townsend is a leading global professional services company, delivering consultancy expertise across the property, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Commercial Manager to join our Defence sector team, supporting our clients in delivering successful commercial outcomes.

**Job Summary:** We are looking for a skilled and experienced Senior Commercial Manager to lead our commercial management activities in the Defence sector. You will work closely with our clients to develop and implement commercial strategies that support their objectives, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards.

**Responsibilities:

  • Accountable for ensuring that commercial strategies contribute to cross-government and departmental procurement agenda;
  • Conducting commercial assurance of business cases, commercial strategies and contracting approaches, to ensure that sound commercial practices are being applied;
  • Accountable for providing commercial service delivery within budget, on time, and for providing commercial inputs to the project schedule;
  • Examining risks to project commercial success and implements appropriate mitigations;
  • Developing supplier management strategies in order 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 to secure consideration and compensation as appropriate;
  • Conducting peer contract assurance prior to internal DE&S and MOD approvals, ensuring the correct commercial policy has been implemented.

**Requirements:**

1. Significant experience of Procurement, Contract Management or Contract Placement (sourcing) with some experience of the other, in single source and competitive markets.
2. Identifying the most suitable commercial approach to the circumstance, including assessing the potential trade-offs and the level of risk mitigation required to achieve the best commercial outcome;
3. Understanding and applying programme, portfolio and project management tools;
4. Taking ownership of decisions at tender evaluation stage and applying commercial expertise and judgement accordingly;
5. Understanding and applying tools to monitor supplier performance including EVM, cost analysis, and contract related management information systems.
6. Will have at least 10 years' commercial experience;
7. Commercial Functional competence and skills at Practitioner or Expert level, for pre-market, sourcing and post-award contract management;
8. NEC contract knowledge and experience would be a nice to have.

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