Associate Director- Procurement

7 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Turner & Townsend Full time

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a leading global consultancy, with around 3,000 employees in the UK and over 6,000 globally. We are a growing organisation and recently ranked number 1 in the Times PWC Top Track 250. This is a dynamic and innovative company, quick to respond to market trends and with a reputation for quality.

At T&T we’re passionate about making the difference. 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.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver challenging and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

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, transport, power and utilities.

**Job Description**:
**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.
- 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.

**The Offer**:
Further opportunities are available to travel both nationally and internationally to service and manage key commissions for our blue chip client portfolio.

Turner & Townsend encourages a Hybrid method of working to provide a practical Work/Life balance that recognises the challenges that life brings.

We are keen to ensure that our team is delivering Best Practice in our Procurement Practices and therefore we will be encouraging and supporting individuals to achieve Chartered Status for CIPS and then onto Fellowship status, regular Professional Development and development will be available to further the team’s high standards.

**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

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