Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
We partner with our clients across the globe to design thriving and connected cities and communities that enable opportunity for all and keep the world moving. Climate change, urbanization and digitization trends are requiring today’s mobility projects and systems to address an evolving set of demands from the world’s growing population. We design connected, sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure with new technologies, and optimize the mobility of people and goods.
Role description:
We are looking for an experienced Associate Procurement Director to join our Highways Consultancy team based in either the North, Midlands, or the London/South-east (with hybrid working arrangement) to provide expertise to a range of public sector clients including Local Government. This exciting role will provide the successful candidate with an opportunity to lead procurement and supply chain aspects for a range of national infrastructural projects of varying complexities. The candidate will bring enthusiasm to leading procurement and wider consultancy delivery teams and mentoring junior team members as well. Our experts in procurement and supply chain management work closely with broader technical, delivery and consulting teams from across Arcadis, providing both strategic best practice, market insights and practical implementation advice.
As part of our Cost Management team, you’ll be involved in a wide range of projects from global and high profile to small and impactful, ensuring they’re delivered on time and to budget. Your expertise in planning, estimating, budgeting and managing costs will drive growth and smarter working.
Role accountabilities:
- Lead procurement projects ensuring client satisfaction, effective project management and effective communication and collaboration
- Lead the delivery of a fully comprehensive procurement service, with robust and efficiently priced contracts
- Strategic development and verification of procurement options from first principles for complex projects; obtain, extract, and use appropriate sourcing approaches to propose procurement delivery
- Develop and propose potential solutions that resolve complex business problems and meet or exceed client expectations
- Working with clients and team members to provide leadership and direction for procurement related activities including achievement of sustainability targets
- Manage and lead the creation of strategic change and actionable plans to align supply chains with clients’ business objectives and priorities
- Effective liaison with stakeholders to enable projects progress without delay, ensuring that all reasonable requests are met in a timely efficient manner
- Identify business development opportunities and communicate these to senior colleagues, to generate additional revenues and enhance client satisfaction
- Ability to lead sales process and tenders of up to a £1m, identify and land sales opportunities with new and existing clients
- Manage and lead a programme of projects to ensure that all commissions receive the relevant allocation of suitable resource to deliver them efficiently.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree qualified or equivalent in a relevant discipline
- Full professional member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) - essential
- Demonstrable experience in leading procurement teams and delivering successful outcomes
- Analytical skills required to make informed, balanced business decisions and reporting findings back to clients, colleagues, and stakeholders
- Confidence in communicating and managing business relationships with senior-management level and stakeholders
- Experience of business and client development
- People leadership; inspire and motivate people whether this is on or off project both internal as well as in client environments.
- Consistently manage a team effectively and embody Arcadis Values and Behaviours
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
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