Construction Procurement Manager

Turner & Townsend•San Jose, CA

1d•$120,000 - $150,000

About The Position

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. Turner & Townsend are looking for a Procurement Manager to support a large-scale construction project. The ideal candidate has great communication skills and leadership skills.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in business administration or a related field is preferred.
Minimum 15 years of applicable experience
Strong experience with ERP systems, preferably SAP.
Programming experience such as SQL, VBA, or Python is required.
Prior people management experience
Proven track record of successful procurement and supply chain oversight
Proficiency in data engineering, including an ability to work closely with subject matter experts.
Detail oriented with the ability to work with speed and accuracy.
Ability to investigate complex issues and conduct root cause analysis.
Passion for creating innovative approaches to solve abstract business problems.
Ability to infer realistic business and supply chain implications from data and model results.
Advanced skills with spreadsheets, charts, and presentations.
Excellent communication skills

Responsibilities

Generate and send forecasts to vendors to ensure supply chain visibility.
Keep track of supplier capacity and schedule to meet NPI and mass production needs.
Work with design teams for BoM and routing validation.
Develop analytical solutions for data discovery and exploration leading to improvements in Procurement performance.
Build advanced analytics models (including predictive, prescriptive, machine learning, simulation, and statistical) to solve complex supply chain problems and to uncover new correlations and interdependencies among supply chain variables.
Responsible for developing and visualizing analytical outputs using visualization software.
Turn data into actionable intelligence that can be used across the organization.
Develop dashboards and tools to allow leadership to make data-based decisions using key metrics, KPIs, and other quantitative measures.
Utilize statistical analysis techniques such as regression and clustering to derive advanced insights.
Communicate insights and synthesize conclusions from large, complex datasets.
Collaborate with IT and Master Data teams to obtain high-quality data and ensure required datasets are available for discovery and model building.
Work with and train other Analysts and super users.
Drive continuous improvement across supply chain tools and processes.
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.