Procurement Lead - Transport Infrastructure

Procurement Lead
- Transport Infrastructure Job Snapshot Role:
Procurement Lead
- Transport Infrastructure

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Construction Function:
Purchasing

Experience:

20 years in transport infrastructure procurement and complex contract sourcing Job Type: Full-time

Job Details Country:
Saudi Arabia City:
Riyadh Industry: Construction Function:
Purchasing Salary:  Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality:
Any

The Procurement Lead will serve as the principal procurement authority for the PUA-VST corridor within the DMO, translating program delivery requirements into executable sourcing and contracting strategies. The role spans procurement planning, market engagement, tender development, evaluation, negotiation, governance, supplier performance, and post-award commercial support across complex infrastructure and transport systems packages. Its contribution is critical to maintaining the program critical path, protecting value for money, strengthening competition, and ensuring commercial models are aligned with design maturity, funding requirements, construction sequencing, and operational readiness.

• Develop, own, and continuously improve the procurement strategy for the PUA-VST corridor within the DMO framework.
• Translate program objectives into clear sourcing strategies for major works, systems, and consultancy packages.
• Define procurement approaches for civil and structural corridor works.
• Establish sourcing strategies for rail and road systems, signaling, telecommunications, control systems, and rolling stock interfaces.
• Lead procurement planning for stations, depots, hubs, transport buildings, and related infrastructure.
• Develop sourcing strategies for professional services covering design, supervision, project management, and specialist advisory assignments.
• Align procurement activities with funding constraints, delivery priorities, commercial objectives, and program risk appetite.
• Maintain the procurement master schedule and ensure award dates support design, approvals, construction, and operational milestones.
• Coordinate procurement lead times with the integrated program schedule.
• Identify long-lead procurements and intervene early where delays could affect the critical path.
• Lead pre-market engagement with local and international contractors, systems suppliers, consultants, and specialist service providers.
• Organize industry briefings, market sounding exercises, and prequalification processes.
• Assess market capability, competitive tension, capacity, and supplier readiness before major tenders are launched.
• Direct preparation of Expressions of Interest, Requests for Qualification, Requests for Proposal, and Invitations to Tender.
• Ensure scopes of work, commercial requirements, pricing schedules, evaluation methodologies, and tender instructions are complete and internally aligned.
• Oversee quality assurance of procurement documentation before issue to the market.
• Manage the complete tender lifecycle from issue through clarification, addenda, evaluation, negotiation, and recommendation for award.
• Coordinate responses to bidder clarifications and ensure all tenderers receive consistent and controlled information.
• Lead technical and commercial evaluation processes with appropriate separation of duties and governance.
• Establish defensible evaluation criteria and scoring methodologies for complex procurements.
• Consolidate evaluation findings and prepare evidence-based recommendations for contract award.
• Ensure procurement records provide a complete audit trail for each sourcing decision.
• Recommend suitable contracting and commercial models based on package characteristics and risk allocation.
• Evaluate options including EPC, Design and Build, DBFM, PPP, concession, and framework arrangements.
• Work with legal, finance, risk, engineering, and delivery teams to develop balanced contractual terms.
• Review commercial risk allocation and identify provisions requiring negotiation or management intervention.
• Lead bidder negotiations on pricing, contractual terms, delivery commitments, risk positions, and commercial qualifications.
• Reconcile technical, legal, and financial issues before final award recommendations are submitted.
• Protect value for money while maintaining realistic and deliverable contractual obligations.
• Develop a competitive supplier base capable of supporting the scale and complexity…