Senior Contract Specialist

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.

Core Accountabilities:
 

• 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. 

 

 

• 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.

 

 

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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.

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