Role: Senior Contracts Manager - Intelligence

Location: UK Wide (Remote, with office access) 

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 looking to add to its team: an experienced and motivated Senior Contracts Manager. This role supports the contract governance function within the Intelligence Global Business Area and you will be a specialist in contracting digital product offerings to public and B2B environments. This role leads commercial, contractual and technical interpretation on contract terms and conditions and supporting performance on contracts, proactively working to identify risks, issues and opportunities and managing these elements within the GBA. You will own the contract lifecycle management and contract compliance activities for the Intelligence GBA, supporting account managers in contract initiation, creation, negotiation (with legal team), approval, execution and monitoring and performance processes.

You will establish, manage and maintain a robust set of contract KPIs, working with the account managers to deliver against these. Supporting the commercial evaluation and preparation of contract change proposals, you will work with the legal team in providing high quality contract drafting and negotiate proposals through to signature. You will have the ability to operate independently and communicate effectively, both internally, with technical staff, peers, and management as well as externally, with customers, regulators and others. Arcadis is on a journey to bring together many, previously separated, software products (through acquisition) and this role is pivotal in ensuring effective checks and balances are in place in a centralised manner covering all aspects of the CLM

The role sits within our global business area Intelligence. We use digital intelligence and deep human knowledge to create products and solutions in a holistic way. We empower our clients with agile, data-driven insights and technologies that complement our sustainable design, engineering and advisory expertise. We can confidently work in partnership to address global challenges from climate change and rapid urbanization, to increasing digitalization, socio-economic disruption and societal expectations head-on, all with the common goal of improving quality of life.

Role accountabilities:

This role will be accountable for the day to day management and maintenance of the Contract Lifecycle Management processes relevant to our products and services.

Establishing and maintaining robust CLM processes for the Intelligence GBA and ensuring alignment with all Arcadis corporate functions will be a key responsibility. This will include contract initiation, creation, negotiation (with legal team), approval, execution and monitoring and performance processes.

Recognise the value and benefits that CLM activities bring and lead the collaboration with the technology and growth teams to ensure Arcadis continue to provide best in class products to our clients in an efficient and scalable manner.

Qualifications & Experience:

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork.

You should have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in commercial management and at least 10 years of experience with acumen in commercial, risk and legal negotiation of a complex digital product projects. The candidate should be able to demonstrate a proven track record in successful project execution/negotiation, including financial performance, technical compliance, and client engagement.

You will possess a high level of intellectual, professional, and interpersonal agility and flexibility. Further you will bring excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate at all levels of the organization in particular senior levels. A pragmatic attitude is vital.

You will also possess the following

Complete understanding of the Contract Lifecycle Management phases in a digital product environment, preferably in a public sector and B2B environment. An excellent understanding of and appreciation of compliance frameworks A well-developed understanding of and appreciation for organizational mission, values, and goals and consistent application of this knowledge. Observation and persuasion skills especially with internal stakeholders (e.g. GBA directors, and local workforce). An ability to communicate contractual detail, orally and in writing, in an easily understood and actionable manner. Time management and ability to multi-task with competing priorities. Excellent decision-making capabilities and ability to make decisions and deal with conflicting priorities.

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.

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.