Procurement Lead
- Dublin
- Permanent
- Full-time
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:Job DescriptionThe Procurement Lead will be responsible for leading and developing all procurement activities for the Programme to ensure they align with the Contracting Entity's Procurement Strategy and objectives in addition to securing best value for the Programme. The role holder will develop and implement procurement policy and standard operating procedures and provide technical guidance on contractual and procurement matters to the programme team. The aim is to drive robust and consistent controls to embed best practice procurement across the programme team and within Infrastructure.The Procurement Lead will strengthen relationships across the supply chain, regularly engaging with suppliers to develop comprehensive knowledge and insights and drive a culture of collaboration and partnership.Procurement Requirements, Standards and Performance
- Lead and manage key procurement activities and the overall development, execution and success of the Contracting Entity's vision
- Review and streamline procurement policies, processes and controls implementing improvement of these processes where necessary to ensure that all purchases are executed in line with the Procurement Strategy
- Maintain up to date best practice knowledge on relevant regulations, market intelligence, commodity trends and new sources of supply.
- Monitor marketplace developments and communicate these to internal customers
- Lead the procurement team to execute sourcing strategies to achieve sustainable cost reduction and service improvements
- Lead the management of vendor relationships and implement corrective action to ensure dependable supply where necessary in addition to continually improving cost, quality and services performance
- Develop the programme's long term and short-term category spend plans
- Manage the Sourcing Process, including specification generation, tendering and negotiation strategies, tender preparation and evaluation, supplier selection and contracting.
- Ensure that supplier performance meets or exceeds the contractual performance levels
- Conduct due diligence and risk assessment of procurement/supplier activities to identify points of vulnerability and devise remedial plans
- Ensure contracting excellence and manage risk effectively.
- Ensure that all procurement activity is compliant with internal and external requirements and procedures, including National and EU requirements.
- Provide subject matter expertise on all procurement matters to the Programme and across the business
- Manage performance and outputs from your team using clearly defined targets with a focus on financial performance, quality, sustainability and collaboration
- Manage relationships with suppliers and drive performance targets/agreements
- Embed best practice procurement across the Programme
- Senior: 10+ years' experience in a complex procurement environment within a major capital programme
- Experience in leading and managing procurement teams
- Proven experience of providing leadership, commercial and strategic direction aligned with business objectives
- Experience with advanced category management and strategic sourcing and procurement methodologies and techniques
- Good track record of developing successful commercial relationships that have benefitted programme performance and delivery metrics.
- Tangible experience of documenting best practice procurement policies, processes and standards
- Relevant university degree in Procurement, Commercial Management, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Law, Project Management, or other related discipline
- Ability to operate and execute effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and challenging deadlines
- Demonstrates a thorough knowledge of the business, markets, and regulations it operates within
- Demonstrates a highly effective understanding and ability to utilise supplier market dynamics and analysis
- Process-oriented with strong analytical skills and creative problem-solving capabilities
- Highly effective change management skills in complex and multidiscipline environments
- Strong ability managing external key Supplier relationships, at executive and operational levels
- Demonstrates very strong business acumen preferably with experience in multiple business sectors
- Risk and financial analysis skills and the ability to interpret and utilize key financial data with a focus on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Full time, permanent
- Competitive remuneration and attractive range of benefits
- Pension
- 23 days Annual leave, 2 Company days & 1 volunteering day
- Opportunity to work on impactful and innovative projects
- Career development opportunities both in Ireland and globally
- Opportunity to work with a diverse group of talented and collaborative colleagues