Senior Procurement Manager - Transmissions & Distribution

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. 

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 programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success. 

Our capabilities include program, 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 program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world. 

Job Description

Turner & Townsend are looking for a Procurement Manager to support a large-scale construction project. The ideal candidate has great communication skills and leadership skills. 

 Responsibilities:  

• Generate and send forecasts to vendors to ensure supply chain visibility. 

• Keep track of supplier capacity and schedule to meet NPI and mass production needs. 

• Work with design teams for BoM and routing validation. 

• Develop analytical solutions for data discovery and exploration leading to improvements in Procurement performance. 

• Build advanced analytics models (including predictive, prescriptive, machine learning, simulation, and statistical) to solve complex supply chain problems and to uncover new correlations and interdependencies among supply chain variables. 

• Responsible for developing and visualizing analytical outputs using visualization software. 

• Turn data into actionable intelligence that can be used across the organization. 

• Develop dashboards and tools to allow leadership to make data-based decisions using key metrics, KPIs, and other quantitative measures. 

• Utilize statistical analysis techniques such as regression and clustering to derive advanced insights. 

• Communicate insights and synthesize conclusions from large, complex datasets. 

• Collaborate with IT and Master Data teams to obtain high-quality data and ensure required datasets are available for discovery and model building. 

• Work with and train other Analysts and super users. 

• Drive continuous improvement across supply chain tools and processes. 

• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration or a related field is preferred. 

• Minimum 15 years of applicable experience 

• Strong experience with ERP systems, preferably SAP. 

• Programming experience such as SQL, VBA, or Python is required. 

• Prior people management experience 

• Proven track record of successful procurement and supply chain oversight  

• Proficiency in data engineering, including an ability to work closely with subject matter experts. 

• Detail oriented with the ability to work with speed and accuracy. 

• Ability to investigate complex issues and conduct root cause analysis. 

• Passion for creating innovative approaches to solve abstract business problems. 

• Ability to infer realistic business and supply chain implications from data and model results. 

• Advanced skills with spreadsheets, charts, and presentations. 

• Excellent communication skills 

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.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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