Procurement Manager

Overview

Role description:

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. We solve complex challenges and deliver impact through the power of collaborative minds.

Procurement Manager (Finance)

Arcadis is looking to hire a Procurement Manager as a strategic business partner for sourcing within the Resilience GBA, responsible for developing and implementing regional sourcing strategies aligned with business area objectives. Leads contract negotiation, local category management, supplier relationship management, cost analysis, and supply chain risk management, while ensuring compliance with global sourcing policies and driving process and performance excellence.

Acts as a key liaison between regional business lines, procurement leadership, and suppliers to deliver value, innovation, continuous improvement and billable hours.

The Strategic Business Partner will act as the primary procurement contact for all projects within the Resilience Business Line, serving as the procurement management lead throughout the project lifecycle. Leveraging their strategic expertise, this role will ensure procurement is recognized as a value-adding function across the business, developing and implementing regional sourcing strategies aligned with business and project objectives. The Business Partner will ensure full compliance with procurement procedures and global sourcing policies, lead contract negotiations, conduct local category and supplier relationship management, and drive cost analysis and supply chain risk management.

Working closely with key stakeholders—including project teams, business area directors, pursuit teams, legal, finance, and sustainability leads—the Business Partner will align procurement activities to project demands, participate actively in project pursuits to help secure new work, and provide hands-on procurement management through project execution, engaging additional resources as required.

The role is pivotal in driving best practice procurement management, continuous improvement, and innovation from pursuit through to successful delivery, while supporting the achievement of billable hours targets. The partner will also collaborate with regional and global procurement teams to harmonize strategies, share market intelligence, and contribute to procurement maturity across the organization.

This role can be based in any office in the USA and reports to Regional Procurement Director.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement sourcing strategies for assigned categories, including BL-specific opportunities and projects.
• Analyze market trends and supply chain dynamics to inform strategic sourcing decisions.
• Collaborate with other BPs regionally and globally for best practice exchange and continuous improvement.

• Lead negotiations for contracts, ensuring favorable terms and compliance with company policies.
• Manage contract lifecycle, including renewals and amendments, to optimize value.

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers in the region to ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Conduct supplier performance evaluations and implement improvement plans with business stakeholders and QHSE.

• Partner with internal stakeholders of the assigned Business Line to understand needs and provide sourcing solutions that support business objectives.

• Identify and mitigate supply chain risks through effective sourcing strategies and contingency planning in collaboration with the Regional Procurement Director and Sourcing Lead Directs.
• Monitor geopolitical and economic factors impacting sourcing decisions.
• Ensure adherence to sourcing policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements in the area assigned. Collaborate with Sourcing Lead and Regional…