Procurement Buyer

Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36000 people in over 70 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Execute end-to-end purchase of goods and services to support turnaround time Serive agreements and operate and promote the use of P2P systems for key processes in procurement and supply

Individual accountabilities:

Category Sourcing

• Execution of end-to-end sourcing process or some parts thereof which covers:
  • Liaising and aligning with internal stakeholders and the Technology engineering applications team to review and clarify requirements & develop appropriate specifications
  • Conduct and/or support Supplier Account Managers in supplier selection qualification negotiations and contracting
  • Manage tenders and/or oversee the development of supply agreements such as non-disclosure agreements purchasing agreements framework agreements etc.
• Contribute to the building monitoring and reporting of a Category Sourcing Strategy and create a complete project end to end reporting overview
• Perform data analysis on category spend visibility and other relevant procurement analytics activities
• Perform Supplier consolidation list updates and local content execution in coordination with Procurement Data team
• Consistently engage with colleagues from Procure-to-pay (P2P) to influence and collaborate on category spend and consolidation targets
• Ensure stakeholder and team awareness of project (category strategy) specific requirements
• Ensure supplier consolidation to optimize the supply chain by focusing on cost outs/spend category strategy development and roadmap implementation in collaboration with category team members
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of KPIs set by Global Sourcing regarding category spend regularly contributing to performance improvements to meet organizational targets

Procure to pay

• Ensures Purchase Orders (POs) are issued in accordance with Arcadis Procurement policy buying requirements
• Perform purchase agreement control tasks including modify cancel close finally close freeze and hold
• Create and manage purchase agreements and catalog content including catalogs category hierarchy content zones information templates map sets public shopping lists and smart forms
• Perform purchase agreement administration tasks including importing agreements from external applications applying retroactive price changes reassigning agreements from one agent to another

Key share responsibilities:

• Query Management: Provides technical fiduciary advice on procurement activities and engages in policy dialogue to strengthen procurement systems
• Run reports and analyze purchase requisition and purchase order transactional information to monitor spend and pricing arrangements in commercial agreements

Profile requirements:

• Bachelors degree Supply Chain or Procurement related degree an advantage
• Basic knowledge of IT ERP systems and databases preferably Oracle desired but not mandatory.
• At least 3-5 years of relevant Procurement experience
• Experienced in using Microsoft Office suite. (Experience in maintaining data management is preferred.)
• Experience working in Shared Services is an advantage
• Effective communication skills (written and oral)
• Proficiency in MS Office applications (Excel Outlook PowerPoint and Word
• Data and technology:Adopting data-driven decision-making leveraging data to create and demonstrate value. Tech savvy comfortable and curious about technologies.
• Drive success:
• Create a sense of shared ownership and accountability balancing this with decisiveness and holding others to account for delivery.
• Take ownership of own responsibility creating clarity and motivating and aligning others.
• Internalize organizational goals making them ones own personal stretch goals.
• Oucomes focused and tackle challenges head-on.
• Ignite passion:
• Personally role model commitment to improving quality of life and putting sustainability at the core.
• Apply an adaptive style to engagement that is culturally sensitive and appeals to the personal needs of others.
• Integrate their work helping others connect their work and the bigger picture.
• Maintain personal resilience rebound from setbacks and help others do the same.
• Build trust through authenticity demonstrating integrity and courage regarding own convictions

Why Arcadis

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its 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.

Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll 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.