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:
At Arcadis, we're helping clients deliver some of the UK's most complex infrastructure and capital investment programmes. We're looking for an experienced Supply Chain Manager to play a pivotal role in driving supply chain excellence across major construction and infrastructure projects.
This is an opportunity to influence supplier strategy, strengthen key relationships, and help deliver sustainable, high-performing supply chains that support successful project outcomes. Based within a major aviation programme environment, you'll work alongside commercial, procurement, and project delivery teams to ensure suppliers consistently meet expectations for safety, quality, programme, cost, and sustainability.
Role accountabilities:
- Supporting the development and delivery of supply chain strategies across major capital programmes.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with strategic suppliers and identifying opportunities to strengthen market engagement.
- Managing Supplier Performance & Relationship Management (SPRM) activities, tracking supplier performance against key KPIs and supporting continuous improvement.
- Monitoring supplier risks, due diligence activities and business continuity planning.
- Supporting supplier reviews, Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) and performance reporting.
- Conducting market analysis and supply chain engagement activities to identify capable delivery partners.
- Maintaining supplier segmentation frameworks, governance processes, and reporting tools.
- Driving improvements that enhance supplier performance, compliance, innovation and value.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Significant experience in Supply Chain Management, Procurement, or Commercial Management within major infrastructure or construction programmes.
- Experience managing supplier performance, supplier relationships, and supplier risk.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence across diverse teams and senior stakeholders.
- Experience analysing and presenting complex data in a clear and accessible way.
- Degree qualified in a relevant discipline or holding an equivalent professional qualification.
- MCIPS, MRICS, or similar professional accreditation desirable.
- Experience working within large-scale capital projects and operational environments would be advantageous.
- Knowledge of contract management and supplier management systems such as Power BI, CEMAR, or similar tools.
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.
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Skills Required
- Significant experience in supply chain management, procurement, or commercial management within major infrastructure or construction programmes
- Experience managing supplier performance, supplier relationships, and supplier risk
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to influence diverse teams and senior stakeholders
- Experience analysing and presenting complex data clearly
- Degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent professional qualification
- MCIPS, MRICS, or similar professional accreditation
- Experience working within large-scale capital projects and operational environments
- Knowledge of contract management and supplier management systems such as Power BI, CEMAR, or similar tools
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
