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SalaryAre you interested in working on some of the world's most exciting projects, with some of the world's leading businesses?
At Turner & Townsend we're passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day we help our clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 114 offices and 47 countries worldwide.
At Turner & Townsend, we offer a wide variety of benefits to our staff to help them inside or outside of the work. We offer true work life balance, working from home arrangements, team events and much more.
We have been helping the largest Aviation and Power/Utilities clients across Australia with their complex procurement and supply chain challenges. Our Program Advisory team in Brisbane is looking for Procurement Specialists to join our National Team helping a range of different project and client needs.
Job Description
As a member within our Procurement and Contract Services team, your role will primarily focus on 'hands-on' strategy development and delivery with clients. We are looking for multiple people to work with clients within our infrastructure segments which covers our Aviation and Power/Utilities projects. In this role, you will be involved in:
- Developing robust contemporary procurement strategies for our clients' major projects and programs, helping to assure successful project outcomes and reduce delivery risks.
- Transaction management on major capital projects, effectively setting up projects and programs for success by leading the procurement process. Such processes typically start with facilitating the finalisation of requirements, followed by market sounding and tendering, and through to the negotiation of commercial contracts, often in line with client gate/approval processes and probity requirements.
- Providing clients with expert contract management skills to support their projects, from initial contract set up through to managing variations and claims.
- Proactively building networks with other members of the Turner & Townsend team, and with our key clients in the region, becoming a trusted advisor on matters relating to procurement and contract management for capital projects.
- Working with clients on projects that are failing to perform as planned, to identify commercial and project controls solutions that will lead to effective project or program recovery.
- Contributing to Turner & Townsend's vision and mission by developing proposals to address client challenges, creating innovative new service offerings, and prudent management of financial performance within your area of the business.
- Provide a leading role in a client procurement team responsible for advising and supporting the procurement of multi-million-dollar packages on large construction projects in sectors including energy, mining, or commercial property construction
- Offer clients strong contract knowledge from initial set up to managing variations and claims.
- Support clients with contract formation, contract administration, contract negotiations and claims support.
- Work collaboratively with the client and other consultants at all project stages.
- Manage tender processes from conception through to contract award
- Make the difference with current and new clients by identifying new ways we can help deliver improved procurement and project outcomes
- Critically analyse how clients are delivering projects and procurement activities to identify opportunities for improvement
- Contribute to the business success of the Organisation by assisting in the areas of submissions, fee bidding, and financial management and reporting, budgeting, and business planning.
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.
Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV's that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV's will be treated as a direct application.
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