Procurement Lead - Onshore Wind (Anticipated Opening)

About the role

Turner & Townsend invites you to join our expanding team in the US (New York, Houston and/or Chicago) as the Procurement Lead. Initially supporting a leading developer of renewable energy assets, you will manage major procurement and contracts management initiatives. Over time, you will support our growth across the renewable energy sector.

Responsibilities

• Planning, implementation, and execution of procurement and/or tender strategies
• Draft and negotiate contracts including service, consultancy, supply, and installation contracts
• Support and advise clients on ad-hoc issues
• Lead and coordinate commercial, technical, financial, and legal expertise from both clients and within Turner & Townsend, ensuring compliance with clients' governance and approval procedures
• Lead and perform the complete procurement process, including issuing requests for information, proposals, and tenders, evaluating proposals, recommending awards, and finalizing contracts
• Ensure procurement process execution aligns with client policies and procedures, and document for transparency and traceability
• Identify value items and tender strategy based on defined awarding criteria
• Coordinate information flow internally and externally, keeping stakeholders informed on progress
• Finalize commercial and contractual deals as a basis for finalization using standard general conditions or managing exceptions with legal and main stakeholders
• Achieve maximum value while minimizing risks, finding compromises and solutions under time pressure
• Participate in vendor relationship management, including communications, regular meetings, maintaining and improving vendor and market knowledge
• Draft and negotiate main contracts throughout project development and execution
• Work with project management team to ensure successful project delivery, balancing risk with viable solutions
• Manage changes, variations, and claims in project execution, ensuring compliance with client's commercial interests
• Provide contract interpretation, organize and process correspondence, and monitor fulfillment of contractual obligations
• Communicate and maintain dialogue with contractors during project execution phase, addressing issues proactively
• Ensure timely contract delivery within set mandate
• Drive governance processes and present materials to stakeholders and decision bodies such as the Steering Committee
• Contribute to process development in contract management
• Assume Director/Project Director level responsibilities

Requirements

• Specific experience with WTG procurement and negotiation of turbine supply agreements (TSAs) and other turbine-related contracts
• Knowledge of and experience dealing with WTG OEMs and supply chains (GE Vernova, Vestas, Nordex, Enercon, etc.)
• Essential onshore wind experience
• Required US market experience

Qualifications

• Assume Director/Project Director level

Benefits

Salary range for this full-time role is $180K-$200K per year. Ranges are determined by role and level and represent a good faith effort to provide a fair and equitable salary. This range is a reflection of base salary only, not of a total compensation package. Turner & Townsend reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range, depending on candidate's experience and qualifications.

On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs.

We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

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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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*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs*

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/.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list or that have not followed due process. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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