Director – Capital Programme Procurement

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

12/22/2024

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 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.

Role description:

To understand and demonstrate capability to influence and develop the Arcadis business and the Business Advisory Communities of Practice, Service Capabilities and Value Propositions for our client's major Capital Programmes. Focus on the UK, but as part of a new global Community of Practice for Procurement & Supply Chain Advisory services, working with clients and their investment programmes across the sectors of the built environment.

Play a key role in growing our market offer to support clients across the lifecycle of procurement and supply chain in major programmes, to achieve the right outcomes and benefits for their businesses and stakeholders, on time and budget.

The Director's role is to demonstrate the ability to:

• Develop and land integrated and innovative propositions that respond to client and market need and strengthens our Business Advisory brand in the P&SC capital programmes market, commanding margins consistent with the established management consultancy market
• Spearhead the service line to achieve exceptional client outcomes and commercial revenue and margins through service excellence across a multiple million pound complex capability area
• Bring thought leadership to the business and clients and be widely recognised as an authority in their field both in as well as outside Arcadis
• Promote diversity and inclusion and well-being through leadership behaviours, and embed this culture within Business Advisory
• Make a positive difference in the world and improve quality of life though our work with clients
• Manage the UK Procurement & Supply Chain (P&SC) Capital Programme community and teams, as part of a growing global consulting practice.
• Inspire and motivate our people while supporting their well-being and welfare making Business Advisory an exciting and rewarding place to be.
  
  

Role accountabilities:

• Develop, grow, and Manage the Business Advisory service line in Procurement & Supply Chain - Capital Programmes, including setting objectives and managing performance, to ensure that the team has the resources and capability to achieve the business plan.
• Work with senior colleagues across the Arcadis business to refresh and reinforce our value propositions for supporting clients to achieve value, on time and budget, across their P&SC capital programme lifecycles.
• Establish and agree key performance targets and financial budgets for the service line in order to optimise business performance in line with set objectives.
• Lead key relationships with clients, and monitor account performance including taking appropriate action to ensure that client expectations and Arcadis’ commercial objectives are met or exceeded.
• Inspire teams to shape and win complex bids that can be delivered profitably and that respond to identified client issues.
• Manage the delivery of large, complex consulting commissions, ensuring client satisfaction, effective project management and good communication and collaboration between Arcadis colleagues.
• Support the continuous improvement of existing Arcadis propositions in Procurement & Supply Chain - Capital Programmes, including as a subject matter expert. Further enhance their attractiveness to clients and delivery efficiency, and hence business performance.
• Bring trusted-advisor relationships with Board and executive-level client representatives, and use these to develop and land integrated and innovative propositions that meet client and market needs.
• Consistently lead teams in an inspiring and motivating manner, which embodies Arcadis Leadership principles, including the attraction and development of diverse pools of talent.
• Act as a key member of the global senior team members for the Capital Programme, Procurement and Supply Chain practice, including collaboration with teams based outside of the UK, and a key role in growing the Arcadis brand in this field.
  
  

Dimensions of the job:

Financial Accountability: Compliance to Arcadis internal processes and business performance targets

Sales Target: expected to personally lead £1-2m of fee generation from identification of sales opportunity, plus bid management, supporting the Business Advisory group deliver and/or exceed planned revenue and ebitda.

Business Area Accountability: Typically carries out at least 2 organising to win roles such as accountability for commissions, specific clients, and/or community roles.

Management / Leadership Responsibilities: Directly manages 5-6 people Level 9 or below. Leads growth in team with an aspiration of headcount of 40+ by end 2024, and revenue in excess of £6m pa.

Utilisation: As outlined by specific Organising to Win role

Qualifications & Experience:

• A senior expert within the procurement & supply chain with extensive experience within the Capital Programmes discipline, including extensive senior delivery and/or consulting experience, for large and complex capital programmes and portfolios.
• Significant experience of procurement in a regulated context (PCR, UCR etc)
• Further expertise in a relevant business sector would also be attractive.
• Experience of managing business relationships up to board level.
• Directly influence client behaviours and investment outcomes, dealing effectively with high risk, high value executive client situations.
• Recognised by major (current or potential) clients as a procurement & supply chain subject matter expert, with significant demonstrable experience in a Capital Programmes context. Brings a relevant network of economic buyers within UK clients
• Conversant in the client challenges addressed by Arcadis value propositions, with the ability to bring relevant global expertise to clients.
• Ability to generate cross-sales from across Arcadis, through relationships with senior colleagues.
• Bachelors/Masters degree or equivalent, in a relevant discipline
• Recognised external accreditation/qualification aligned to BA Capability/service line expertise (e.g., MCIPS, MCA, RICS and/or relevant engineering professional institution.)
  
  

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.

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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.