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:
Role accountabilities:
As Capital Procurement Manager, you will lead and manage procurement activities from market engagement through to contract award across a portfolio of major projects. You will work closely with project teams, commercial stakeholders and external partners to deliver robust procurement strategies, drive value, manage risk and ensure governance compliance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing complex procurement exercises from pre-tender through to contract award
- Developing procurement strategies, tender documentation and evaluation frameworks
- Supporting supplier engagement and market development activities
- Preparing award recommendations and procurement approvals
- Embedding procurement best practice within project teams
- Managing procurement risks, opportunities and performance milestones
- Supporting supplier framework acquisition, renewal and management
- Ensuring compliance with procurement governance, commercial standards and project controls.
Qualifications & Experience:
We're looking for a procurement professional with significant experience delivering complex procurement programmes within construction, infrastructure or engineering environments. You will be comfortable influencing senior stakeholders, navigating complex commercial challenges and driving successful procurement outcomes across major projects.
You will bring:
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent relevant experience
- MCIPS, RICS, IACCM or similar professional accreditation (or extensive procurement lifecycle experience)
- Experience leading multi-million-pound procurement activities on major construction projects
- Strong stakeholder management, negotiation and influencing skills
- Knowledge of NEC4 contracts and procurement of design, professional services and construction works
- Understanding of commercial, legal and technical aspects of infrastructure delivery
- Experience operating within complex, regulated project environments.
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 believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
Skills Required
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent relevant experience
- MCIPS, RICS, IACCM or similar professional accreditation (or extensive procurement lifecycle experience)
- Significant experience delivering complex procurement programmes within construction, infrastructure or engineering environments
- Experience leading multi-million-pound procurement activities on major construction projects
- Strong stakeholder management, negotiation and influencing skills
- Knowledge of NEC4 contracts and procurement of design, professional services and construction works
- Understanding of commercial, legal and technical aspects of infrastructure delivery
- Experience operating within complex, regulated project environments
What We Do
Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, digital and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 architects, data analysts, designers, engineers, project planners, water management and sustainability experts, all driven by our passion for improving quality of life. We exist to find solutions to today’s most pressing challenges, from the impact of climate change to increasing urbanization and digital transformation – all with the goal of improving quality of life for people around the world. You can see this in the work we do for our clients, the opportunities we create for our people, and in our efforts to enhance the communities in which we live and work. We bring together world-class resources and the latest innovative technologies to help define the cities and experiences of tomorrow. Arcadis. Improving quality of life
