Job Title
Assistant Director - Strategic Client ProcurementJob Description Summary
Job Description
About The Role
- Lead end‑to‑end project cost, contract, and tender management, including budgeting, forecasting, claims, and value engineering.
- Oversee operational cost control, payment claims, procurement activities, and financial performance across facilities management contracts.
- Ensure full compliance with contractual, regulatory, and governance requirements, managing risks and dispute resolution.
- Establish and manage SLAs, performance metrics, and reporting to ensure service delivery standards are met.
- Drive operational and procurement excellence through continuous process improvement, cost optimisation, and innovation.
- Develop and execute supplier and category strategies, including negotiations, renewals, and performance management.
- Lead supplier performance management, including KPIs, reviews, root‑cause analysis, and CAPA initiatives.
- Act as a strategic business partner to senior stakeholders, aligning procurement and project strategies with business objectives.
- Lead and influence cross‑functional teams while role‑modelling integrity, professionalism, and strong commercial judgement.
About You:
- Minimum 10–15 years of relevant experience in project controls, cost management, procurement, contract administration, or supplier management, with at least 5 years in a leadership or managerial role.
- Strong expertise in contracts, procurement, and financial governance, including tendering, negotiations, cost control, compliance, and risk management within regulated or complex environments.
- Proven people and stakeholder leadership capability, with experience leading cross‑functional teams and building strong relationships with senior stakeholders, clients, and strategic suppliers.
- Demonstrated strategic mindset, able to translate business objectives into procurement, supplier, and cost strategies that deliver sustainable value and performance improvements.
- High level of integrity, commercial acumen, and communication skills, with the ability to represent the function confidently at senior management level and role‑model ethical, professional standards.
Why join Cushman & Wakefield?
As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;
- Being part of a growing global company;
- Career development and a promote from within culture;
- An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion
We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.
We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.
We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.
That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status. We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.
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