Cost Manager

Overview

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. 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:

The candidate is responsible for sourcing and contract management activities for the Corporate Procurement categories, maintaining an end to end view of the procurement process, and adopting a category management approach. Job holder supports and drives the execution of all corporate procurement processes for assigned Administration categories, including sourcing & category management, tendering & purchasing, contract management and relevant supplier management activities under the guidance and direction of the Procurement & Contracts (Administration) Manager.

Well versed in Procurement operations and contract management with responsibility for identifying and screening suppliers, negotiating terms and conditions favourable to the client, driving improved supplier service levels, minimizing risk while improving the client business results within the defined DAL and by adopting Procurement best practices.

Sourcing & Category Management:

• Continuously analyse and evaluate internal factors (e.g. technical requirements, services requirements) and external factors (e.g. supply market dynamics, impact assessment) to derive input for category management
• Ensure transparency on short-, mid- and long-term demand for relevant products and services in close cooperation with the internal customers to secure supply for the client and to ensure most favourable conditions
• Support internal customers to forecast, plan, develop and review budget for the relevant categories, by providing market insights (e.g. market trends and cost information) and procurement perspective
• Identify demand management opportunities (e.g.: demand standardisation, rationalisation) for the assigned categories
• Develop draft category demand plans and seek approval from Procurement & Contracts Manager
• Develop category sourcing strategies and methods for the assigned categories
• Develop draft strategic sourcing implementation plans for assigned categories and seek approval from Procurement & Contracts Manager
• Ensure compliance of the category strategies and their execution with the Procurement Policy, Processes and Procedures in place, as well as with the legal and regulatory requirements

Requisition ing, Tendering & Purchasing:

• Assess if a sourcing/category strategy needs to be defined for the specific internal customer needs (in Purchase Requisition) and inform Procurement & Contracts Manager
• Ensure the developed category sourcing strategies are implemented
• Receive, analyse and clarify Scope of Work with user. Support internal customer to prepare SOW and detailed evaluation criteria for RFP
• Coordinate with internal customers to obtain tender strategy endorsement
• Prepare Procurement Method in line with category sourcing strategy for the assigned PRs and seek approval
• Prepare submissions to CTC for obtaining Bidder List and tender strategy approval, as applicable
• Execute the tendering process as per approved Procurement Method
• Prepare tender documents and finalize all tendering needs with legal, finance and user and issue to tenderers
• Organize site visits, collect and compile responses to tender clarifications, as needed
• Organize technical/commercial tender opening meetings. Coordinate with respective stakeholders for bid opening and release of evaluation documents to internal stakeholders
• Participate in technical evaluation teams, as…