Consultant - Sustainable Procurement - Bristol, United Kingdom - Turner & Townsend

Turner & Townsend

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Bristol, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a leading global consultancy, with around 3,000 employees in the UK and over 6,000 globally. We are a growing organisation and recently ranked number 1 in the Times PwC Top Track 250. We are a dynamic and innovative company, quick to respond to market trends and with a reputation for quality.

We are passionate about making the difference.

That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Our three core Values are Love a Challenge, Stronger Together and Bring out the Best in Everyone, these bring T&T's Purpose and Values to life in everything we do, now and in the future.

It helps us bring out the best in everyone by sharing clear expectations of what's required of ourselves and others across the business.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver challenging and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide. Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Our Contracts Services, Procurement team deliver independent procurement and contractual advice across the whole lifecycle, built from our involvement in some of the world's largest and most complex projects across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors.

We have recently established a new Sustainable Procurement service, which is growing in line with our wider client demand for expertise in evolving procurement & supply chain to deliver more sustainable outcomes.

Job Description:

Reporting to an established Sustainable Procurement lead, you will be helping our clients to meet their social and environmental targets, including orientating our clients' procurement operations, across multiple commissions, towards net zero and better environmental and social outcomes.

We have opportunities for people with a passion for sustainability and procurement to join our expanding Sustainable Procurement team within Contract Services, across our UK offices, as we respond to the increasing demand for our services from our clients.

We are the first consultancy to be recognised by the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) for excellence in the procurement processes that it provides for clients in the construction sector.

Our Team received a Procurement Excellence Programme Award demonstrating excellence in our procurement and supply chain activities.

The Opportunity

This role will provide the opportunity to further your sustainable procurement and consultancy experience, working with highly skilled teams to deliver industry leading Sustainable Procurement advice to large global brands and on some of the most exciting transformational programmes and projects.

This role will be a part of our growing Sustainable Procurement team within Contract Services and play a part in our continued expansion and development of our services, including Sustainable Procurement, Transformational Procurement, Renewables, Digital Procurement and Net Zero Strategies.

Main Expectations

To provide sustainable procurement support across multiple projects and commissions, helping clients progress towards better environmental, social & economic outcomes
To deliver and continually improve clients' environmental performance and meet targets across key sustainability themes
Support the development of the sustainable procurement services provided by T&T
To support the business development for sustainable procurement and the marketing requirements of the wider Contract Services
To support the delivery of both team and wider business targets

We are looking for individuals with knowledge and experience with embedding sustainability into end-to-end procurement activities, in addition core skills-sets and experience across end-to-end procurement, supply chain management and/or contract management.

This includes a mixture of the following:

Sustainable Procurement strategy and implementation
Contract Management
Supply Chain intelligence
Supplier evaluation strategies
Supply chain management
Contract terms, negotiation and award
Carbon (Co2e) footprint calculations
Sustainability metric formulation

The Offer

At T&T we pride ourselves on professionally developing our teams, offering a unique opportunity to rapidly progress their career within an entrepreneurial and growing team.

This is achieved through a mixture of delivering large scale projects whilst being supported by project teams and leaders, mentoring and coaching from industry leading professionals, specific sustainable procurement training and development delivered both online and face to face and becoming trusted experts in sustainable procureme