Procurement Manager

Poutrix; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global company as a Procurement Manager in Edinburgh, where you'll tackle significant energy transition challenges. This role involves managing procurement for large-scale projects, requiring both strategic and on-the-ground expertise in contracting, budgeting, and team leadership, all contributing to a sustainable future.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in public sector procurement exercises.
• Experience within Electrical Transmission and Distribution or Offshore/Onshore Wind sectors preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide an efficient and effective Procurement Management service for clients.
• Lead procurement exercises for large-scale capital projects.
• Formulate sourcing strategies from tender process to contract award.

Skills

Procurement Management

Cost Management

Planning

Estimating

Budgeting

Education

Professional qualifications in related subject

MCIPS status or working towards it

Tools

NEC 3 / 4 contracts

Job description

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About us:

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:

The energy landscape as we know it is rapidly transforming; generating and processing enough energy is a big challenge. Join our Energy team and you will be part of an industry-leading team, where you can apply your skills to national energy transition challenges including several offshore mega projects.

As part of our Cost Management team, you'll be involved in a wide range of projects from global and high profile to small and impactful, ensuring they're delivered on time and to budget. Your expertise in planning, estimating, budgeting and managing costs will drive growth and smarter working.

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.

Role accountabilities:

You will provide an efficient and effective Procurement Management service on behalf of our clients who are typically a mix of transmission network operators, distribution network operators and renewables developers. You should have extensive experience utilising the NEC suite of contracts within a public sector regulated environment.

The role will see you leading procurement exercise to appoint design consultants and contractors to deliver large scale capital programmes on behalf of our client. You will take the lead on formulating sourcing strategies through the full tender process to contract award.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Professional qualifications in related subject.
• Ideally hold MCIPS status or be working towards this
• NEC 3 / 4 contract experience
• Extensive experience delivering public sector procurement exercises operating within a highly regulated environment
• Ideally you will have experience within the Electrical Transmission and Distribution or Offshore/Onshore Wind sectors.

Continue your career journey as an Arcadian:

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.

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.

Join Arcadis. Create a legacy.

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