Procurement Manager

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 looking to hire Procurement Manager as 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 (BL), 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. 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 Procurment Director.

Role accountabilities:

Sourcing Business Partner 

Regional and Country Resilience Business Line (BL)  Sourcing Strategy Development

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

Contract Negotiation and Management

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

Supplier Relationship Management

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers in own area in line with regional supplier segmentation to ensure alignment with business  objectives.
• Conduct regular supplier performance evaluations and implement improvement plans in collaboration with the business stakeholder and QHSE.

Stakeholder Engagement

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

Supply Chain Risk Management

• Identify and mitigate supply chain risks through effective sourcing strategies and contingency planning in collaboration with Regional Procurement Director and Sourcing Lead Directs.
• Monitor and assess geopolitical and economic factors impacting sourcing decisions.
• Ensuring adherence to sourcing policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements in the area assigned. Collaborate with Sourcing Lead and Regional Procurement director on initiatives to enhance sourcing governance and compliance framework within own area.

Cost Analysis and Optimization

• Conduct cost analyses of 3rd party spend within own area to identify opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements in collaboration with Sourcing Lead Directs and Regional Procurement Director.
• Implement cost optimization initiatives in alignment with business priorities.

ESG in supplier management 

• Support initiatives aimed at increasing supplier ESG focus within the sourcing strategy development and implementation, and post-award contract management in collaboration with Global  Sustainable Procurement and Risk Team.

Track and report on progress towards goals and define and implement intervention plans when needed.

Qualifications & Experience:

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, construction management, or similar field 
• Min 5 years direct procurement experience at a senior level. Minimum 2-3 years managing project procurement

Key Skills and Competencies:

• Demonstrated strong experience in leading sourcing strategies, complex negotiations, and supplier relationship management.
• In-depth knowledge of direct procurement end-to end processes covering Subcontracts, Sub Consultancy, Materials and Plant.
• In-depth professional knowledge of forms of contract, including Subcontracts, Sub Consultancy and Professional Services.
• Experience within environmental engineering, , or similar sectors highly desirable
• Strong commercial, financial and analytical skills; able to interpret spend data and drive value-based decisions.
• Proficiency in digital procurement tools and reporting platforms (e.g., Power BI, e-sourcing suites)
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills
• Strong communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution capabilities
• Strong knowledge of Category Management across multiple categories
• Project/program management capabilities, including risk identification and mitigation.
• Change management and continuous improvement mindset.
• Proven leadership qualities

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 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $98,000 - $125,000 salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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