Senior Consultant - Transformational Procurement

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 skills.
• Solid research, evaluation and analysis skills.
• Storyboarding and presentation skills.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Strong IT and digital skills and a real interest and curiosity in tools, systems and data.
• Procurement and Supply Chain intelligence and innovation.

Qualifications

To deliver value for our clients we are looking for a mixture of the following:

• Preferably has a degree related to one of the following; Procurement, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Business Management or similar disciplines.
• Previous experience in procurement transformation and/or sustainable procurement.
• Has achieved, is working towards or is willing to work towards at least Level 4 Diploma in Procurement and Supply.
• Security Clearance (SC) – currently valid or could be reinstated, not essential.

Experience

• Wider procurement consulting experience gained from either client, contractor or other professional services organisations.
• Experience of key sustainable procurement practices including human rights, environment, health and safety, anti-bribery & corruption and labour practices.
• Strong understanding of wider ESG legislative and regulatory environments is desirable.
• A history of delivering transformative procurement projects, especially related to cost reduction and category management.
• Experience of leveraging digital tools as part of procurement transformations.

Behaviours

• Confident, independent and able to work autonomously with limited need for supervision.
• Be able to manage work/business development/career development activities.
• Be able to support the development of outline proposals and bidding collateral.
• Experienced and confident in compiling reports and research documentation.
• Be able to develop market facing eminence aligned to industry leading practices.
• Confident in a client facing role and collaborating with stakeholders.
• Driven to get results and deliver value to clients.
• Ability to collaborate and lead workstreams to achieve desired outcomes.

Additional Information

Our people share our Purpose and Values. Turner & Townsend provides a great place to work, where everyone can make change happen and influence a better world.​ We champion our people to succeed in both 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. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.​ If this sounds like a challenge you’d like to hear more about, please submit an application for our recruitment team to review. ​ Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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