Sr. Manager Procurement

Job Description

Overview

The Sr. Manager - Procurement (Direct Procurement AtkinsRéalis India) is responsible for supervising the India-based AtkinsRéalis India team supporting delivery of the endtoend Direct Procurement workflow for the Dubai/Middle East procurement function within the Central Procurement Office (CPO).

This role ensures that activities from RFP to PO/LOA are delivered accurately on time and in full compliance with established governance control and process standards.

The Sr. Manager - Procurement (Direct Procurement AtkinsRéalis India) provides daytoday service delivery oversight team management work allocation quality control and operational escalation management for the AtkinsRéalis India team while overall accountability for procurement strategy commercial decision-making stakeholder ownership and final approval authority remain with the Associate Director and relevant regional leadership.

Your role

• Service Delivery Oversight of the Core Procurement Process
• Coordinate and supervise delivery of Bid RFP Evaluation Recommendation Negotiation PO/LOA steps across the AtkinsRéalis India team.
• Ensure documentation templates approval workflows and checklist standards are followed consistently and completely.
• Provide handson support coaching and issue resolution to enable consistent team performance and service continuity.
• Monitor progress of procurement packages manage operational bottlenecks and escalate material risks exceptions or delays to the Associate Director in a timely manner.
• Provide daytoday guidance task allocation and workload balancing for a team of procurement professionals.
• Monitor and review team outputs for completeness accuracy timeliness and compliance with required process standards.
• Identify skill gaps provide on-the-job coaching support training needs and contribute to capability development initiatives across the AtkinsRéalis India team.
• Ensure consistent application of BMS (Bid Management System) processes DOA/LOA rules and procurement compliance requirements across team activities.
• Coordinate preparation and organisation of audit evidence track findings and support timely closure of corrective actions within the AtkinsRéalis India teams scope.
• Support continuous improvement activities including lessons learned root-cause review and identification of opportunities to simplify or streamline processes.
• Ensure team members use ERP/SRM systems correctly and maintain required
• standards of data accuracy completeness and system hygiene.
• Support framework agreement documentation tracking updates and compliance monitoring within the AtkinsRéalis India teams delivery scope.
• Maintain logs trackers dashboards and reporting inputs required for operational visibility governance reporting and KPI monitoring.
• Serve as the primary coordination point for routine operational queries from internal teams including Bid Commercial Finance and Operations.
• Ensure stakeholders receive clear timely instructions documentation status updates and process timelines related to procurement activities managed by the AtkinsRéalis India team.
• Escalate strategic commercial policy or sensitive stakeholder matters to the Associate Director and/or relevant regional leadership for direction and resolution.
• Manage intake prioritisation triage and coordination of nonstandard or urgent procurement requests
• Ensure each request meets minimum compliance documentation and governance requirements before progression for approval.
• Work with the Associate Director to maintain alignment with category strategies regional priorities and broader CPO objectives.

About you

• Experience in procurement commercial or supply chain roles.
• Experience supervising others or coordinating a small team in a formal or informal leadership capacity.
• Strong knowledge of procurement workflows documentation requirements service-delivery controls and compliance processes.
• Comfortable with ERP/SRM systems procurement reporting and data control requirements.
• Excellent organisational skills attention to detail and process discipline.
• Effective communicator with the ability to coordinate across multiple teams and stakeholders in India and the Dubai/Middle East procurement function.
• Proactive mindset with the ability to improve processes solve daytoday operational issues and maintain service continuity under changing priorities.
• Service Delivery Coordination & Organisation
• Team Management & Guidance
• Stakeholder Management
• Data Accuracy Reporting & Systems Familiarity
• Risk Governance & Compliance Awareness
• Problem Solving & Escalation Judgement
• Time Management & Prioritisation
• SAP Ariba Proficiency
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Accuracy and completeness of procurement documentation and approval packs.
• Compliance with BMS DOA/LOA and audit requirements across team-managed activities.
• On-time execution of procurement cycle steps and adherence to agreed service timelines.
• ERP/SRM data quality reporting accuracy and system hygiene.
• Effective team coordination workload visibility and timely escalation of risks or bottlenecks.
• Positive stakeholder feedback on operational responsiveness clarity and service delivery.
• Bachelor / Masters degree in Civil Engineering with 12 to 18 years of relevant experience in construction procurement.
• Experience in standard contract forms (FIDIC NEC JCT)
• Preferably a chartered professional (MRICS)
• Client facing with excellent communication / Report writing / Presentation.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Comprehensive life insurance coverage.
• Premium medical insurance for you and your dependents.
• Generous annual leave balance.
• Flexible and hybrid work solutions.
• Remote work opportunities outside of country.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Relocation assistance.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance legal matters family care personal health fitness and nutrition.

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills expand your expertise and be recognized for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

Were AtkinsRéalis a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people data and technology to transform the worlds infrastructure and energy systems. Together with our industry partners and clients and our global team of consultants designers engineers and project managers we can change the world. Were committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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At AtkinsRéalis we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender ethnic or national origin sexual identity and orientation age religion or disability but enriches itself through these differences.