Senior Procurement Manager

About The Job

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.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Manager, Procurement – CAPEX typically owns category management for level 2 global categories encompassing multiple site locations, divisions and groups. Ensures that the category strategy is aligned with the functional/business objectives and works closely with Division Business Partners, Quality, Operations, R&D, and Business leaders to ensure category strategies are aligned cross functionally. Leads a Category team responsible for strategic sourcing activities and supplier management functions. Build organizational strength, create robust sourcing strategies, negotiate agreements, manage strategic supplier relationships, and drive continuous improvement year over year savings.

Role accountabilities:

• Connects key categories to relevant client business divisions ensuring alignment of strategies and financial targets
• Accountable for the multi-year category strategy and plan objectives, timelines, and goals
• Analyzes cross-divisional spending and develops global strategic sourcing plans to reduce the total cost of ownership for all business units
• Demonstrates a measurable reduction in year-over-year total cost of ownership for the goods and services being sourced without compromising quality and service levels
• Considers financial planning, forecasting, P&L performance, inventory, cash flow, tariffs and inflation to inform strategy
• Provides thought leadership in developing and implementing sourcing strategies
• Champions the use of structured Category Management process to develop category strategies including diversity, sustainability and risk assessment and business continuity
• Uses AQSCIR (Assurance, Quality, Service, Cost, Innovation, Regulatory) method to develop and drive 3-to-5-year global sourcing strategies focused on identifying and contracting with suppliers that meet category management goals
• Communicate plans and progress to Enterprise colleagues
• Runs the contracting process and lead coordination with Legal to ensure relationships are appropriately documented
• Leads the supplier qualification, RFP, supplier selection, contract development, implementation, compliance, and ongoing supply base management process
• Assesses market intelligence for key trends, and uses predictive analytics to make risk mitigation recommendations to the business
• Drives supplier consolidation through engaging and supporting Division Business Partners and Group Procurement Operations (e.g. sourcing engineers) to qualify preferred suppliers and migrate spend from incumbent, non-preferred suppliers
• Strong working knowledge of construction project management and capital equipment purchases.
• Strong financial acumen and understanding of choice impact
• Legal contract acumen and understanding of impacts
• Understanding of category and supply chain markets and how changes affect projects
• Basic understanding of where taxes, tariffs, duties, etc. apply and when they can be avoided
• Strong bid evaluation skills
• Superior negotiation skills both with suppliers and internally with stakeholders and business partners
• Typically works under the direction of a Senior Director, drives adoption of global sourcing strategies across the enterprise and ensures ongoing cross team collaboration
• Champions use of eSourcing, Spend Visibility, and P2P tools company-wide
• Works with Division Business Partners and functional colleagues to gather business requirements for category strategy development
• Create and maintain a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal colleagues and reporting of sourcing impact
• Leads a Global/Regional Category Team, develops staff to create expertise in both the areas of spend being managed and in strategic sourcing processes
• Mentors and develop staff through coaching and development plans to address individual areas of improvement
• Implement talent initiatives to improve Employee Involvement Survey results
• Provides options and recommendations based on tradeoffs
• Proactive and a bias for action
• Follows through on deliverables
• Prioritizing decisions and actions based on impact
• Build strong trusting relationships
• Stakeholder management and navigating difficult situations
• Team building and collaboration skills internally and externally
• Probing alternatives to current ways of operating
• Clearly and concisely communicates internally and externally
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree required; preferably in engineering (industrial, mechanical or chemical). Graduate degree in business and Construction certification preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of Capex procurement/sourcing experience with increasing global responsibility and experience in a large matrixed company environment
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in Capex Construction and Equipment within a multinational company for very high-level threshold projects
• Experience in a large matrixed company environment, pharmaceutical industry experience preferred
• 3 years of experience leading and managing procurement teams with a focus on mentoring, coaching and performance management
• Strong leadership and effective business partnering capabilities – influence without authority
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a complex organization
• Strong negotiation and presentation skills
• Strong knowledge of the strategic sourcing and category management process
• Strong project management skills
• Requires ability to deal with ambiguity and the corresponding capacity to make decisions or recommendations based on potentially incomplete information
• Capable of working across all functions and levels of an organization
• International experience (plus) – working experience in different countries/regions/languages
• Ability to provide legal US work authorization documents required. Will consider US domestic travelers and relocation.

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 are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. Salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.