Senior Procurement Manager

Job description

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. As an Arcadian, you already help us deliver world leading sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. You are part of our global business comprising 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 continue to solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. **Role description:** Seeking a Procurement Delivery Lead – Electric Capital Construction to support capital delivery construction procurement activity. This is a contractor role operating at a manager level as a senior individual contributor. The role will be the right hand to the director and will provide hands-on procurement, sourcing, commercial, bid execution, and process improvement support for complex electric construction work. The successful candidate will partner closely with Procurement leadership, category managers, project management, engineering, construction, legal, finance, safety, operations, and business stakeholders to plan and execute strategic sourcing events. The role will focus on improving decisions around delivery models, bid readiness, sourcing quality, supplier engagement, commercial discipline, governance, award documentation, and overall procurement execution. In addition to supporting active sourcing events, this role will be expected to provide thought leadership and strategic improvement capability. The individual will help Procurement scale its operating model to support a significantly growing capital delivery workplan by identifying process improvement opportunities, introducing new ways of working, implementing repeatable tools and templates, and leading execution of practical improvements that increase capacity, consistency, transparency, and stakeholder confidence. The successful candidate must be comfortable operating in an environment where the work is complex, fast-moving, and not always fully defined. They will be expected to bring structure, pace, clarity, and constructive challenge to sourcing activity while supporting procurement managers and category leads in translating business requirements into executable procurement plans and leadership-ready deliverables. **Role accountabilities:** Capital Construction Bid Execution: - Lead or support sourcing events for capital construction work, including transmission, distribution, substation, civil, underground, overhead line, and related electric infrastructure construction services. - Develop and maintain sourcing event plans, bid calendars, procurement trackers, milestone schedules, responsibility matrices, action logs, issue logs, and decision logs. - Support development of RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, bid forms, pricing schedules, evaluation criteria, supplier instructions, clarification logs, negotiation materials, and award recommendation packages. - Ensure sourcing events are released to market with clear scopes of work, commercial requirements, pricing structures, safety expectations, schedule assumptions, evaluation methodology, and governance requirements. - Coordinate supplier questions, stakeholder responses, bid clarifications, addenda, site visit requirements, pricing updates, evaluation meetings, and negotiation preparation. - Identify and escalate bid execution risks, including incomplete scope definition, unclear commercial positions, unrealistic timelines, supplier capacity constraints, labor availability, safety concerns, or stakeholder alignment gaps. - Drive sourcing activity to agreed timelines while maintaining appropriate governance, documentation, commercial discipline, and decision quality. Construction Procurement and Commercial Strategy: - Advise on appropriate sourcing strategies and commercial models for construction work, including lump sum, unit price, time and materials, EPC, EPCM, framework agreements, master service agreements, contractor panels, and project-specific awards. - Support the development of negotiation strategies that address cost, schedule, productivity, change management, risk allocation, payment terms, warranties, insurance, bonding, escalation, claims avoidance, and performance expectations. - Apply total cost of ownership thinking to construction sourcing decisions, including mobilization, demobilization, outage constraints, productivity assumptions, change order exposure, contractor availability, supplier switching costs, and long-term delivery risk. - Partner with Legal, Risk, Safety, Finance, Engineering, Construction, and Project Management to resolve commercial exceptions and align contractual positions with project delivery needs. - Challenge unclear assumptions, gaps in scope, weak commercial positions, or sourcing approaches that could create downstream delivery, cost, schedule, safety, affordability, or governance risk. - Prepare commercially sound recommendations that balance cost, risk, capacity, safety, schedule certainty, supplier performance, regulatory defensibility, and stakeholder requirements. **Qualifications & Experience:** - 7+ years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, commercial management, contract negotiation, supply chain, vendor management, construction contracting, or capital project procurement. - Significant experience supporting construction sourcing, infrastructure procurement, utility procurement, energy projects, EPC/EPCM environments, capital projects, or complex field services. - Demonstrated experience developing and managing RFPs, RFQs, bid packages, pricing schedules, evaluation models, negotiation plans, sourcing strategies, and award recommendation materials. - Strong understanding of construction procurement and contracting considerations, including scope definition, pricing structure, schedule commitments, safety requirements, labor availability, change orders, claims risk, insurance, bonding, warranties, and payment milestones. **Preferred Experience** - Direct experience with electric utility construction categories such as transmission, distribution, substations, civil construction, underground construction, overhead line work, emergency response, or related capital delivery services. - Experience working in a regulated utility, energy, public infrastructure, engineering, construction, or capital project delivery environment. - Familiarity with construction delivery models such as EPC, EPCM, design-bid-build, design-build, alliance contracting, master service agreements, contractor panels, and framework agreements. - Experience supporting large-scale capital programs with multiple stakeholders, compressed timelines, high spend, complex governance, and significant business visibility. - Experience improving procurement execution through templates, tools, process discipline, reporting, governance routines, stakeholder communication, and operating model improvements. - Familiarity with supplier performance management, construction KPIs, contractor scorecards, post-award handoff requirements, and lessons-learned processes. - Experience helping organizations scale capability during periods of significant workplan growth or capital investment expansion. 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. 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 employer. 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 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $160000 - $180000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.