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We are a leading independent professional services company specialising in programme management, project management, cost and commercial management and consulting across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors.
With 104 offices in 44 countries, we draw on our extensive global and industry experience to manage risk while maximising valu...
Background:
Due to increased workload and securing of new clients across the Infrastructure and Real Estate sectors, Turner & Townsend has a new opportunity for an Associate Director to join our growing Contract Services division in our UK offices based in our Johannesburg office.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to:
- Drive change in the largest organisations in the country,
- Engage on and influence large scale flagship projects,
- Impact across multiple industries and categories,
- Challenge themselves in a market leading global business,
- Create new and innovative service offerings to the Market,
- Lead and develop an outstanding team of specialist procurement and other consultants.
The wider team also 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 and lead 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:
- Provide specialist procurement strategy advice to Public and Private sector clients.
- Lead and manage end to end procurement services on major projects or programmes.
- Lead and support the development of the procurement services provided by Turner & Townsend.
- Lead and develop a team to achieve successful outcomes for our clients.
- Managing client relationships and related commission outputs and deliverables.
- Lead and support business development and marketing of the Contract Services team’s service proposition.
- Lead on bid preparation and proposal documentation and support the work winning capability of the contract services division.
- Support the delivery of both team and wider business targets.
Qualifications
- To deliver for our clients, we are looking for a mixture of the following:
Experience and Qualifications:
- Experience in and/or knowledge of regulated procurement, in particular Public Contract Regulations 2015 with an awareness of the Green Paper and potential changes to the public procurement regime.
- Leading strategic major procurement projects or programmes for Public and Private sector clients.
- A strong background in tender preparation, development and management ideally including negotiation.
- Commission, client relationship, and people management
- Experience of developing and using various forms of contracts with particular focus on NEC and JCT.
- Cross sector experience with a strong public procurement background is highly desirable,
- Have achieved, working towards or willing to work towards MCIPs accreditation.
- Business generation including bid development
- Preferably possess degree related to construction, civil engineering, quantity surveying, law or procurement.
- Preferably possess experience working in Defence, Utilities, Infrastructure (roads, rail etc) sectors
- (SC) Security Clearance – currently valid or could be reinstated
Skills:
- Ability to lead and develop key strategies and documentation for major procurement projects that complies with Public Sector Regulations or equivalent.
- Able to manage and supervise the delivery of others for a successful outcome.
- Able to build strong, professional client relationships and proactively identify and resolve client’s issues.
- Excellent communication skills, adaptable, with a determination to succeed.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage a wide range of stakeholders and develop ongoing relationships
- Able to develop supplier evaluation and commercial principles and modelling strategies.
- Able to develop Supply Chain Intelligence strategies and analysis.
- Able to develop Supplier Relationship Management strategies and activities.
- Able to manage work/business development/career development activities.
- Excellent attention to detail.
Behaviours:
- Adaptable and taking personal responsibility to succeed.
- Confident, independent and trustworthy, able to influence individuals at all levels.
- Collaborative and with the ability to develop/manage a team and individuals efficiently to achieve desired outcomes.
- Encouraging and empathetic whilst also fair and consistent when supporting individuals.
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