Contract Assistant - Procurement

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 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.

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1. Work with Procurement Lead to draft documents based on new contract requests from execution team. Re-drafts required to align with Project Execution plans and coordinated scope of works for Contractors and Supply Chain.
2. Monitoring and ensuring workflows have been initiated and progressing in line with the procurement strategy.
3. Review of bid submissions to check for alignment with scope of works, project schedule and overall requirements.
4. Ensure intended vendors have governing agreements in place, and if not, assist Site Teams in initiating new governing agreements or renewing lapsed governing agreements where necessary.
5. Work with commercial team to protect our Clients interests, ensuring full compliance with Clients Contractual obligations and requirements. This role requires a strong focus on contractual wording and close attention to detail.
6. Guide Stakeholders to appropriate forms of contract for needed site services. Assist stakeholders in modifying contracts as needed (scopes of work, task orders, work orders, amendments, etc.).
7. Maintaining progressive bid analysis documents through the tender phase, to include a list of risk items where relevant.
8. Monitoring insurance documents, throughout the project lifecycle to ensure full compliance to project and local authority requirements.
9. Maintaining industry best practices for all contract/procurement scope.
10. Reporting into dashboards managed by the Project team for full visibility and latest status updates.
11. Working with the Procurement Lead to produce tender reports and award recommendations.
    
    

• Bachelor's degree in Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, Construction, Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree is a plus.
• Minimum 5 years experience in cost management or construction projects.
• Strong communication and client management.
• Good proficiency in English.
  
  

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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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