Senior Consultant

**Company Description**
Turner & Townsend (T&T) is a leading global consultancy business serving clients in the real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors, with around 4,000 employees in the UK and over 10,000 globally. We are a growing, and innovative organisation who are quick to respond to market trends and have an exceptional reputation for integrity and quality. With our depth of expertise and proactive approach we help our major global clients deliver challenging and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.

At T&T we’re passionate about making the difference and transforming performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world. 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. Our team is dynamic, and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and exciting company culture. Our Making the Difference Fund puts our purpose into action through our work with our charitable partners, including Barefoot College International.

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, infrastructure, power, and utilities.

Reporting to a Procurement lead, this role involves working on client facing transformational procurement programmes, leading workstreams, collaborating with stakeholders, and operational procurement teams to deliver sustainable change in procurement operations for our clients.

We have opportunities for those passionate about transformative and sustainable procurement who are driven to innovate within procurement functions. This position is ideal for individuals looking to develop their transformational procurement strategy and implementation skills in a challenging yet rewarding environment.

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**

This role will provide the opportunity to further your transformational procurement and consultancy experience, working with and leading workstreams of highly skilled practitioners to deliver industry leading procurement change to large global brands on some of the most exciting transformational programmes and projects in the market.

This role will be a part of our growing Transformational Procurement team within Contract Services and will contribute to our continued expansion and development of our enterprise level transformational procurement propositions, including Sustainable Procurement, Digital Procurement, Procurement Target Operating Model, Cost and Spend Transformation and Procurement strategy.

**Main Expectations**
- Supporting and leading workstreams for clients in their procurement transformation initiatives across a variety of industries and sectors, guiding clients towards modernised and efficient procurement systems, alignment with their digital ambitions and a clear focus on their sustainability targets.
- Developing and implementing sustainable procurement strategies and practices, and supporting clients to align with environmental, social and governance goals while delivering their procurement objectives and vision.
- Design and implement procurement target operating models for the future, optimising procurement operations, aligning with digital and commercial strategies, and delivering a sustainable enterprise level transformation.
- Formulate and execute procurement strategies that drive cost savings and enhance operational efficiencies within client organisations
- Support the development of our Transformational Procurement proposition suite and build innovate market eminence and thought leadership Support the delivery of compelling market propositions and client proposals aligned to both team and broader business targets.

**Skills**

We are looking for individuals with a blend of procurement and advisory experience in delivering transformational procurement programmes that embed change into the end-to-end enterprise level procurement and supply chain value chain. This should include a mixture of the following;
- Strong procurement and supply chain knowledge, from industry or advisory
- Established workstream and project management skills
- People management and support ski