Associate Director - Procurement
Key Skills for This Role
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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.
- Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
- We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
- Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
- Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/
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- Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
- Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
- Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
- We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
- Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com
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
- 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.
- 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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