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:

Arcadis are excited to again be growing their Nuclear team. We are looking for talented procurement professionals to join our team to work on a range of Nuclear projects across new build, decommissioning, defence and other emerging markets / technologies in the Nuclear space. You will be part of an industry-leading team, where you can apply your skills to national & international challenges across energy mega programmes & projects.
As part of our Cost Management team, you’ll be involved in a wide range of commissions from global and high profile to small and impactful, ensuring they’re to the delivered to the quality standard, on time, and to budget. Your expertise in sourcing strategy development, procurement planning, sourcing, and awarding supply chain appointments will drive growth and embrace smarter working.
The role sits within our global business area Resilience. We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.
As a Procurement Specialist you will join a team of procurement, commercial, programme, and project professionals delivering a broad range of services in support of the delivery of client commissions within the nuclear sector (civil, decommissioning, and defence). Your role will see you play a key part in the successful and optimum provision of required goods, works, and services from the supply chain to ensure the associated delivery of scope, schedule and cost against an assigned portfolio or programme/project. 

Role accountabilities:

Delivers best value solutions for all allocated commercial activities based on optimising the balance between cost and risk. Identifies and drives innovative solutions and methodologies and identifies opportunities to enhance the Company’s supply chain and commercial performance and practice. Manages and leads the supply chain activities within own portfolio area. Activities include providing the following for complex high value and/or high risk sub contract requirements: Creating and managing plans for the activity within their category Developing category strategies and risk assessments Supporting sub-contract specifications Leading the tender process from commencement to completion within their portfolio of work Leads negotiations and relationships with suppliers Competent in preparing strategy documents, business cases and other written business documentation relative to own portfolio area Proactively manages contracts / agreements / categories / relationships with suppliers within their agreed portfolio applying the Supplier Relationship Management process

Qualifications & Experience:

Ideally MCIPS or working towards acreditation. Experience with Public Procurement Regulations and understands the impending changes due and the associated requirements.  Expert in NEC 3 suite of contracts, specifically Options A, C and E, Term Service Contracts and Short Form Contracts. Ideally experienced in NEC 4 suite of contracts

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.