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Arcadis

Procurement Business Partner

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Provides strategic procurement leadership for regional projects, developing sourcing and subcontracting strategies, leading complex negotiations, managing contracts and claims, reducing commercial and supply-chain risk, improving supplier performance, and delivering cost and margin improvements. Partners with project, regional, legal, finance, risk, sustainability, and operational leaders to align procurement with business and client requirements.
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Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 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:

Provides strategic procurement leadership for regional projects, shaping sourcing, subcontracting and contract management approaches. Partners with delivery leaders to create commercial value, manage supply-chain risk and improve supplier performance.

Role accountabilities:

  • Act as the primary procurement partner for project teams and regional stakeholders.
  • Develop project sourcing and subcontracting strategies aligned with client and commercial requirements.
  • Lead complex negotiations and oversee contract variations, claims and close-out.
  • Shape make-or-buy, sourcing and commercial decisions using cost and market insights.
  • Drive value, margin improvement and risk-reduction initiatives, including support for bids and pursuits.
  • Build strategic supplier relationships and oversee performance across cost, schedule, quality, safety and contractual obligations.
  • Work with Service leadership to encourage early procurement involvement and align projects with category strategies and procurement frameworks.
  • Collaborate with Legal, Finance, Risk, Sustainability and operational teams.

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Minimum 10 years of relevant procurement experience, preferably within complex, project-based environments.
  • Significant experience in direct/project procurement, strategic sourcing, subcontracting and contract management. 
  • Proven experience leading complex sourcing strategies, negotiations and contract delivery. 
  • Expert knowledge of project procurement, subcontracting, contract lifecycle, commercial risk and supplier performance. 
  • Strong commercial acumen with the ability to identify cost, value and risk-reduction opportunities. 
  • Strong stakeholder and supplier management capabilities, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority. 
  • Ability to provide strategic procurement leadership and effectively partner with project and regional leadership.

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.

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