Job Description

Company Description

Who is Turner & Townsend?

All over the world people are using buildings, infrastructure, and assets we helped to deliver. It could be the hospital they work in, the railway they travel on every day, the fuel that powers their car or the data centre they depend on at work. For more than 75 years we\xe2\x80\x99ve been helping to deliver transformational programmes across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors, making a difference to people\xe2\x80\x99s lives and ensuring a return on investment for our clients and their investors.

Our purpose:

Transforming performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world.

The world is changing and we have a responsibility to support that change, helping drive it and be part of it. Through the commitment, capability and care our team brings, we build trust between clients, suppliers, governments and society. Delivering better outcomes that have a positive impact on the world around us. We work smarter to face the challenges of the future; bringing the clarity that helps teams realise their full potential across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. It\xe2\x80\x99s how we\xe2\x80\x99ve made the difference for more than 75 years.

Our values:

Love a challenge: We love a challenge and we work hard to make change happen and see things through. We don\xe2\x80\x99t stand still, challenging ourselves and others to do better every day. And we are trusted to do the right thing, raising standards all the time.

Stronger together: We\xe2\x80\x99re stronger together by connecting people in diverse teams, so that we can all collaborate to deliver our best work. We focus on what matters and use our influence to build a better world for everyone.

Bring out the best in everyone: We bring out the best in everyone. We help each other to make the most of our potential, always learning from our experience. We treat each other with care and respect and make time to give everyone a voice



The individual will work with our highly skilled team delivering best-in-class strategic procurement and contract advice, including end-to-end procurement services to our leading clients in the strategic planning, design and execution of major projects and programmes across the Asia region. This role will be a part of our Major Projects Advisory Group (\xe2\x80\x9cMPAG\xe2\x80\x9d) offering in region and will play a significant part in the continued expansion of our team and our services in this exciting period of growth covering focus areas such as sustainable procurement, transformation, renewables, digital procurement and net zero strategies.

The Director, Procurement will:

• Drive and lead change in the largest organisations in region
• Engage on and influence large scale flagship projects and programmes
• Have visible impact and leadership across multiple industries and categories
• Challenge themselves and others in a market leading global business
• Create new and innovative service offerings to the market
• Lead in the development and rollout of capability comprising an outstanding team of specialist procurement and other consultants in our hub offices

Technical Competencies/Expectations

• Provide specialist procurement strategy advice to global, regional and local clients.
• Lead , advise and support end to end procurement services on major projects or programmes
• Lead and support the development of the procurement services provided by Turner & Townsend in Asia
• Lead and develop a team to achieve successful outcomes for our clients
• Lead and manage client relationships and related commission outputs and deliverables
• Lead and support business development and marketing undertaken by our market teams across Asia
• 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
• Lead and develop key strategies and documentation for major procurement projects that complies with relevant market standards
• Manage and supervise the delivery of others for a successful outcome.
• Build strong, professional client relationships and proactively identify and resolve client issues.
• 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, management strategies and activities
• Able to manage work/business development/career development activities.
• 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.
• Excellent attention to detail

Behavioural Competencies/Expectations

1. Love a challenge

• Making Change Happen

• Views the needs of our business through a broad lens.
• Takes responsibility for shaping future vision, direction, and innovation, ensuring the continued health and prosperity of our business.
• Challenges our leaders and teams to be ready for the future.
• Makes the most of the opportunities that arise to grow the business, showing agility and
• entrepreneurialism.
• Engages people at all levels to collaboratively develop the vision for the future of the business.
• Do better every day

• Applies a transformational perspective in developing and implementing strategy.
• Drives improvement in our offering and encourage your leaders to do the same.
• Manages performance across your unit and drive accountability for execution at all levels throughout the business.
• Supports and challenges your leaders and teams to deliver ever greater outcomes for clients, communities, and the environment

2. Stronger together

• Collaborate to deliver our best work

• Acts as a role model for collaboration and our \xe2\x80\x98One Business\xe2\x80\x99 ethos, thereby fostering a culture of partnership across the business, with clients, and the broader community.
• Seeks opportunities to lead collaboration at an industry level, to facilitate transforming performance together while
• encouraging other leaders to do the same
• Influence to build a better world

• Seeks opportunities to lead collaboration at an industry level, to facilitate transforming performance together while encouraging other leaders to do the same
• Acts as a role model for collaboration and our \xe2\x80\x98One Business\xe2\x80\x99 ethos, thereby fostering a culture of partnership across the business, with clients, and the broader community

3. Bring out the best in everyone

• Always learning

• Defines future capability requirements and plan resourcing to match.
• Promotes a culture of learning and development for everyone.
• Focuses on succession planning, building a pipeline of future leaders.
• Prioritise bringing talent through the business, mentoring and sponsoring people to progress.
• Takes managed risks on emerging talent. Learn from trends outside of our industry, to anticipate the needs of our clients.
• Learns by acknowledging your own fallibility, vulnerability, and ownership of your mistakes
• Treat each other with care and respect

• Promotes a culture of care and inclusivity, by role-modelling courtesy and empathy in your own relationships and consistently challenging rude or disrespectful behaviour by others.
• Monitors and manage the culture of the business, balancing concern for revenue and profit with the well-being and safety of our people, clients, and communities

Qualifications

• Leading strategic major procurement projects or programmes for public and/or 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 FIDIC, NEC, SIA or equivalent forms
• 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

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Additional Information

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.

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