Director, Procurement & Supply Chain Advisory

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:

This is a key leadership role to sustain and grow our market offer and support clients across the full spectrum of P&SC best practice achieving ambitious outcomes and benefits for their businesses and stakeholders.

The Director will grow capacity and capability within the UK CoP to meet client demand and offer stretching and rewarding career paths to highly talented P&SC professionals at all levels of will also play a key role in co-ordinating and developing our wider P&SC community across the Arcadis global business.

The role will require collaboration with other senior leaders in our business to create sell and deliver market-leading advisory solutions with procurement supply chain and commercial insight at their heart. It will bring thought leadership to our business and our clients and inspire and motivate our people while supporting their well-being and welfare : making Business Advisory an exciting and rewarding place to be.

Role accountabilities:

Community Leadership & Development

• Develop and execute a vision and strategy for the UK P&SC CoP aligned with business priorities.
• Lead manage and develop a talented group of P&SC professionals.
• Champion the CoPs purpose objectives and value across the organisation.
• Facilitate regular UK and global community meetings workshops and knowledge-sharing events.

Client and Market Impact

• Lead high profile pursuits and commissions with clients across sectors to drive successful outcomes.
• Maintain and grow relationships with a network of clients up to CPO and Board levels.
• Engage with market directors sector leads technical experts and project teams to maximise the quality of advisory solutions and their market and client impact.
• Act as a subject matter expert across a wider portfolio of pursuits and commissions.

Knowledge Management

• Curate develop and maintain best practice resources tools and market insights in procurement supply chain and commercial.
• Lead the sharing of P&SC lessons learned project insights and technical innovations across Arcadis in the UK and globally.

Capability & Professional Development

• Facilitate training mentoring and development initiatives linked to the P&SC professional discipline.
• Promote external engagement through partnerships with industry bodies academia and professional networks.
• Act as an industry thought leader via including publications and speaking engagements.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

• Translate P&SC skills and best practice into innovative client-facing solutions that address their most pressing and complex business opportunities and challenges and translate into demonstrable business benefits across the supply chain lifecycle.
• Drive development and adoption of new methods digital tools and innovative approaches across the CoP.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Demonstrable experience in advisory services client-side leadership and/or consultancy with a passion for knowledge management professional development and collaboration.
• A recognised leader with proven expertise across Procurement Supply Chain and Commercial disciplines in at least one target sector (i.e. energy water transport manufacturing & technology or property/real estate).
• Experience of managing business relationships up to board level.
• Significant experience of procurement in a regulated context (PCR UCR etc) is also desirable.
• Strong leadership facilitation and communication skills.
• An inspiring industry-recognised thought leader in procurement supply chain and commercial best practice.
• A senior relevant client network (CPO-level and equivalent).
• Proven commercial and business management skills and an appetite and aptitude for sales and business development.
• Knowledge of digital solutions and technology enablement in the field.
• Ability to engage motivate and influence diverse groups.
• Organised proactive and able to drive initiatives from concept to delivery.
• Collaborative approach with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Likely to be a member of CIPS or RICS and/or other relevant professional institution.

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. 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.