Principal Consultant | Commercial & Procurement
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Turner & Townsend seeks a Principal Consultant in Commercial Advisory to join our Sydney team and steer the setup, transformation and delivery of major programmes across real estate, infrastructure, defence, energy and resources. You will articulate strategic levers, establish commercial approaches through the asset lifecycle, and turn client visions into practical value-driven solutions while fostering collaboration and change management. What matters most is proven delivery in complex environments, familiarity with the commercial lifecycle, and the ability to lead multiple projects and influence senior stakeholders. To apply, tailor your CV to show end-to-end delivery, outcomes and leadership across teams; apply on our careers site with Australian work rights, and note NEC/MCIPS where relevant.
Company Description
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, defence, 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.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com
Job Description
Our Programme Commercial Advisory team within PA supports iconic clients across a wide range of sectors through designing, developing, implementing, and optimising commercial strategies, commercial models, and functional operating models. This ranges across the commercial lifecycle from market intelligence through commercial strategy development optimising commercial performance and value.
We are seeking talented individuals at a Principal Consultant grade across multiple locations in Australia who are seeking the next step in their career supporting our clients’ major programmes and organisation in setting a new standard of supply chain and commercial delivery for the industry.
As a Commercial Advisory Principal Consultant you will be part of our leading team focused on the set-up, transformation, and delivery of some of the most iconic major programmes, utilising your Procurement/Commercial experience to make a difference in how programmes are set up for success and optimised.
Key aspects of the role include (but are not limited to):
- Understanding and communicating the key strategic levers to enable successful outcomes-driven commercial environments for clients.
- Able to guide clients in understanding how to establish optimal commercial approaches throughout the asset lifecycle.
- Ability to utilise your experience and contribute to translating a client’s vision into effective and realistic commercial solutions, including incentivisation.
- Ability to deploy and/ or optimise commercial management strategies, processes, tools, and systems and tailoring our standard methodologies to client needs.
- Proactively connect and collaborate with diverse and multi-disciplinary teams both internally and externally.
- Developing strong relationships with client stakeholders at all levels.
- Supporting clients to deliver effective change management.
- Supporting key activities within the Programme Advisory team including
- internal development of commercial service transformation products and methodologies.
- identify, contribute to and progress business generation opportunities where appropriate, working closely alongside senior leadership and wider Turner & Townsend teams.
Qualifications
- Commercial:
- A deep understanding of one or more of real estate infrastructure, defence and/or energy and natural resources markets, and associated commercial requirements.
- Awareness of the commercial lifecycle and how this supports clients.
- Ability to understand and operate within large-scale, complex environments.
- Experience of delivering projects within commercial / transformational environments.
- Familiarity with construction industry context, models, and initiatives (e.g. Construction Playbook, Project 13).
- Familiarity with relevant legislative requirements (e.g. public/sector procurement regulations)
- Qualified, or in an advanced process of becoming qualified in MCIPS, RICS or equivalent professional qualification is desirable.
- Experience in NEC Contracts would be advantageous.
- Consultancy:
- Experience of leading and managing multiple projects and maintaining quality deliverables against challenging timelines.
- Excellent communication skills including active listening, presentation, and written communication.
- The ability to provide insights to our clients through clear and succinct communications.
- Flexible with a can-do attitude and a strong eye for detail.
- Able to work and thrive in multi stakeholder environments.
- Experience of delivering change management.
Additional Information
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
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.
Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/
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