Senior Procurement Manager

Talent Acquisition Lead - Northeast and Southeast Regions

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.

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.

• 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
• 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…