Arcadis · 4 hours ago
Senior Procurement Manager
Ridgefield, NJ
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expArcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. The Senior Procurement Manager will own category management for level 2 global categories, ensuring alignment with business objectives and leading strategic sourcing activities and supplier management functions.
Civil EngineeringConsultingWater
Hiring Manager
Selene Burns
Responsibilities
Connects key categories to relevant client business divisions ensuring alignment of strategies and financial targets
Accountable for the multi-year category strategy and plan objectives, timelines, and goals
Analyzes cross-divisional spending and develops global strategic sourcing plans to reduce the total cost of ownership for all business units
Demonstrates a measurable reduction in year-over-year total cost of ownership for the goods and services being sourced without compromising quality and service levels
Considers financial planning, forecasting, P&L performance, inventory, cash flow, tariffs and inflation to inform strategy
Provides thought leadership in developing and implementing sourcing strategies
Champions the use of structured Category Management process to develop category strategies including diversity, sustainability and risk assessment and business continuity
Uses AQSCIR (Assurance, Quality, Service, Cost, Innovation, Regulatory) method to develop and drive 3-to-5-year global sourcing strategies focused on identifying and contracting with suppliers that meet category management goals
Communicate plans and progress to Enterprise colleagues
Runs the contracting process and lead coordination with Legal to ensure relationships are appropriately documented
Leads the supplier qualification, RFP, supplier selection, contract development, implementation, compliance, and ongoing supply base management process
Assesses market intelligence for key trends, and uses predictive analytics to make risk mitigation recommendations to the business
Drives supplier consolidation through engaging and supporting Division Business Partners and Group Procurement Operations (e.g. sourcing engineers) to qualify preferred suppliers and migrate spend from incumbent, non-preferred suppliers
Strong working knowledge of construction project management and capital equipment purchases
Strong financial acumen and understanding of choice impact
Legal contract acumen and understanding of impacts
Understanding of category and supply chain markets and how changes affect projects
Basic understanding of where taxes, tariffs, duties, etc. apply and when they can be avoided
Strong bid evaluation skills
Superior negotiation skills both with suppliers and internally with stakeholders and business partners
Typically works under the direction of a Senior Director, drives adoption of global sourcing strategies across the enterprise and ensures ongoing cross team collaboration
Champions use of eSourcing, Spend Visibility, and P2P tools company-wide
Works with Division Business Partners and functional colleagues to gather business requirements for category strategy development
Create and maintain a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal colleagues and reporting of sourcing impact
Leads a Global/Regional Category Team, develops staff to create expertise in both the areas of spend being managed and in strategic sourcing processes
Mentors and develop staff through coaching and development plans to address individual areas of improvement
Implement talent initiatives to improve Employee Involvement Survey results
Provides options and recommendations based on tradeoffs
Proactive and a bias for action
Follows through on deliverables
Prioritizing decisions and actions based on impact
Build strong trusting relationships
Stakeholder management and navigating difficult situations
Team building and collaboration skills internally and externally
Probing alternatives to current ways of operating
Clearly and concisely communicates internally and externally
Other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree required; preferably in engineering (industrial, mechanical or chemical)
Minimum 10 years of Capex procurement/sourcing experience with increasing global responsibility and experience in a large matrixed company environment
Minimum 7 years' experience in Capex Construction and Equipment within a multinational company for very high-level threshold projects
3+ years of experience leading and managing procurement teams with a focus on mentoring, coaching and performance management
Strong leadership and effective business partnering capabilities – influence without authority
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a complex organization
Strong negotiation and presentation skills
Strong knowledge of the strategic sourcing and category management process
Strong project management skills
Requires ability to deal with ambiguity and the corresponding capacity to make decisions or recommendations based on potentially incomplete information
Capable of working across all functions and levels of an organization
Ability to provide legal US work authorization documents required. Will consider US domestic travelers and relocation
Preferred
Graduate degree in business and Construction certification preferred
Pharmaceutical industry experience preferred
International experience (plus) – working experience in different countries/regions/languages
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
EAP
401K
STD
LTD
AD&D
Life insurance
Paid parental leave
Reward & recognition program
Optional benefits including wellbeing benefits
Adoption assistance
Tuition reimbursement
Nine paid holidays
15 days PTO that accrue per year
Company
Arcadis
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$0.03M2017-06-01Grant· $0.03M
1995-10-06IPO
Leadership Team
Alan Brookes
Chief Executive Officer
Neil McArthur
Chief Executive Officer
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