Job Description

TURNER & TOWNSEND are engaged with one of the largest Technology companies to support their global Data Center program. We are seeking the ideal PROCUREMENT STRATEGY PROGRAM MANAGER to help our client achieve their program aspirations to drive efficiency and innovation within the Data Center environment. You will work within a team of professional business consultants with a focus on service excellence and stakeholder management.

The Procurement Strategy Program Manager will be supporting one of the largest technology companies in the world to deliver its global Data Center program. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing consulting and support services at the program-level to the Program Controls Group’s Contract Operations Team. Responsibilities include hands-on involvement in the development of project procurement and contracting delivery strategies, business process definition and implementation, supply chain strength testing, end-to-end process flow mapping and change implementation.

The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, able to take the initiative and drive activities with limited supervision. The Program Manager should have a minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience working on large-scale ground-up, infrastructure construction projects, in a procurement or on-site project management capacity.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate and advise clients to understand and come to agreements on optimal delivery methods and contracting methodologies at a program-level, across multiple projects in given global regions.
• Develop global standards of procurement, from strategy inception through to contract award tailored to specific trades and project classes.
• Provide fact-based recommendations on desirable contracting and procurement approaches to use across the owner’s supplier base, from firms involved in design through to completed construction.
• Project planning and continuous improvement: Proactively identify ways to reduce activity lead times and variance, to support swift delivery of preconstruction activities without compromising quality of performance.
• Coordination with internal teams to define goals, scope parameters, project risks and assumptions.
• Gather, consolidate and manage data from historic past projects pertaining to key commercial performance and core contracting data. 
• Build and maintain relationships with teams across the program controls group, project management teams, legal and the procurement team.
• Leading and facilitating sessions between cross-functional project teams, to help them deliver optimal build strategies that can enable effective datacenter development and output.
• Managing the flow of project information between the team and the client, through regular meetings and written communications.
• Process improvement – Identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes referring ideas to the appropriate line manager.

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong knowledge of fundamental construction/ project management concepts, delivery strategies, advantages and trade-offs. 
• Detailed knowledge of procurement methods/ processes/ framework agreements etc.
• Strong data and analytics capabilities with the ability to analyse and translate complex and large amounts of data into concise and meaningful messaging.
• Highly proactive, resourceful and self-sufficient individual who can drive projects to completion and work through obstacles to produce recommendations from high-level initial concepts.
• Strong project & time management skills: Is able to track projects against milestones and timelines for long-term initiatives and provide health status updates to clients in a succinct manner.
• Ability to advise at a strategic level during the conceptual stage, including providing advice on the different approaches that can be adopted in order to successfully achieve the client’s overall objectives.
• Work as an effective team member within the context of completing specific deliverables individually, and with peers and clients.
• Key information and data is effectively shared and appropriately retained.
• Proficiency in reporting systems and tools - Microsoft Office and basic dashboard skills. 
• Excellent communicator with various stakeholders including high-level management.
• Highly motivated and driven.
• Highly organized, can manage own workload, action items and also help keep peers on track as well.
• Located or willing to relocate to the Bay Area

Qualifications

• 5 to 8 years’ relevant experience either through: construction management experience and construction procurement on major projects and programs.
• Experience in high tech, residential, commercial, data center, manufacturing preferred.
• Proven ability to be highly effective in a client facing role.
• A recognized university degree in construction management, engineering, project management, quantity surveying or a related technical field.
• Track record of successfully implementing processes and procedures on major projects or programs.
• Accreditation by AACE, PMI or similar institutions.

Additional Information

Turner & Townsend is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Equal Employment Opportunity Posters  If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan, please email recruitmentUSA@turntown.com.  If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact the Human Resources Department at 713-457-9400 or recruitmentUSA@turntown.com.  This telephone line and email address is reserved solely for job seekers with disabilities requesting accessibility assistance or an accommodation in the job application process. Please do not call about the status of your job application if you do not require accessibility assistance or an accommodation. Messages left for other purposes, such as following up on an application or non-disability related technical issues, will not receive a response

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