Senior Contract Specialist

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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Job Description

We are seeking a skilled and detail‑oriented Senior Contract Specialist.  This role is ideal for a contracting professional with experience in real estate, industrial, mining or infrastructure projects, who is ready to contribute to a fast‑paced, high‑standards environment.

• An overriding commitment to health, safety, environmental responsibility and sustainable development.
• Strategic rather than tactical thinker who will challenge the status quo and leverage the buying power of our clients global spend to create value for the MinAM assets.
• Creation of key category strategies outlining the 3+ year plan for the category, working closely with our client's global procurement teams.
• Develop effective relationships with internal business leaders to understand business requirements, to forecast demand, and verify established contracts are effective.
• Develop collaborative relationships with suppliers to ensure optimum delivery quality and sustained performance in line with business objectives.
• Identifies and implements improvement initiatives in procurement categories, managing our portfolio and creating synergies with other subfunctions.
• Generates action plans along with the operation to achieve commercial and productivity KPIs for our clients' operations.
• Leading sourcing and negotiation strategies using market intelligence and best practice tools such as Chessboard analysis, clean sheeting, e-Auctions, TCO analysis, others.
• Define mid- and long-term category strategies incorporating a global and regional perspective, market analysis, should-cost and cost modelling; capture key asset requirements considering future strategic projects.
• Ensures integration of the category strategy across the function (Purchasing, warehouse, inventory, logistic, COMEX, Payments, A&I, Marketing) and Operations, to ensure lowest inbound supply chain cost.
• Uses AI to complement human effort in the execution of work. 
• Executes supplier performance reviews to track performance with contract and business requirements.
• Establish collaborative spaces with main stakeholders through standardized routines. 
• Applies an understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain to enhance efficiency, drive optimization, and maximize value. 

Qualifications

• A bachelor degree.
• 3+ years of relevant industry experience with a focus on supply chain management.
• Proven ability to influence and engage across functions and mine operations sites.
• Ability to analyses complex business processes, risk factors and control systems.
• Proven competences in financial evaluations and commercial project models.
• Knowledge of materials management and logistic processes.
• Advanced Spanish and English, speaker and writer.
• Experience on SAP System, Office and Contract Management.

Additional Information

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