Senior Procurement Manager - Regional Transport

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons Corporation seeks a Senior Procurement Manager - Regional Transport to lead procurement for major civil works across rail, highways, and multimodal transport in Riyadh. You will translate program objectives into executable procurement plans, drive category strategies, and oversee tendering, prequalification, and commercial evaluation with senior stakeholders.

The role requires 15+ years in transport or infrastructure procurement, with strong leadership in high-value packages, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Supply Chain Management, Business, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of procurement experience within transport or major infrastructure programs.
• Strong leadership across multiple procurements from strategy through award.

Responsibilities

• Establish procurement strategies for regional rail, highways, bus, logistics, and multimodal transport programs.
• Translate objectives and risk into executable procurement plans.
• Develop category strategies covering civil works, transport systems, equipment, depots, and professional services.
• Determine suitable procurement routes for complex infrastructure and systems packages.
• Lead tender activities, prequalification, shortlisting, and commercial evaluation.
• Prepare procurement evaluation reports with evidence-based analysis and present to executives.

Skills

Strategic procurement

Infrastructure procurement

Procurement strategy

Category management

Tender documentation

Tender management

Commercial evaluation

Contract award

Supplier management

Public procurement

Procurement governance

Supply chain analysis

Contract negotiations

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Supply Chain Management, or related discipline

Job description

Senior Procurement Manager - Regional Transport Job Snapshot

Role: Senior Procurement Manager - Regional Transport

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Construction

Function: Purchasing

Experience: 15 years in transport or infrastructure procurement

Job Type: Full-time

Job Details

Country: Saudi Arabia

City: Riyadh

Industry: Construction

Function: Purchasing

Salary: 45000-65000 Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.

Gender: Any Candidate

Nationality: Any

Role Context

The Senior Procurement Manager will convert regional transport delivery requirements into coordinated procurement programs capable of bringing major civil works, systems, facilities, and professional services packages to market at the appropriate time.

Working across several concurrent projects, the position will balance commercial value, market capacity, contract risk, funding requirements, and delivery priorities.

The role has direct influence on whether critical transport packages are competitively sourced, appropriately structured, awarded on schedule, and supported by suppliers capable of meeting demanding program objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish procurement strategies for regional rail, highway, bus, logistics, and multimodal transport programs.
• Translate program objectives, funding structures, delivery constraints, and risk profiles into executable procurement plans.
• Develop category strategies covering civil works, structures, transport systems, equipment, buildings, depots, hubs, and professional services.
• Determine suitable procurement routes for complex infrastructure and systems packages.
• Establish procurement schedules, resource requirements, tender milestones, and contract award targets across concurrent projects.
• Integrate procurement activities with design development, statutory approvals, cost plans, construction sequencing, and operational readiness.
• Identify packages with long procurement lead times and develop measures to protect critical delivery dates.
• Lead structured market engagement before launching major transport procurements.
• Assess local and international market capability, competition, supplier capacity, and delivery constraints.
• Direct contractor, consultant, and systems supplier prequalification and shortlisting.
• Maintain a qualified supplier base capable of supporting major regional transport investments.
• Monitor construction and transport market pricing to inform tender timing and commercial strategy.
• Track supply chain capacity, emerging risks, and market conditions that could affect competition or delivery.
• Oversee preparation of complete tender packages for high-value contracts.
• Ensure instructions to tenderers, scopes of work, technical requirements, commercial conditions, and pricing schedules are clearly defined.
• Coordinate procurement documentation with engineering, legal, finance, commercial, and project management teams.
• Establish evaluation criteria appropriate to the technical complexity and commercial profile of each package.
• Manage tender clarifications, bidder communications, addenda, and controlled information releases.
• Lead technical and commercial evaluation processes while maintaining fairness and traceability.
• Review bidder qualifications, commercial exceptions, pricing structures, delivery commitments, and contractual deviations.
• Lead commercial negotiations with preferred bidders.
• Reconcile technical, financial, legal, and contractual positions before finalizing award recommendations.
• Prepare procurement evaluation reports and recommendations supported by clear evidence and documented analysis.
• Present tender outcomes and proposed contract awards to executive committees and steering boards.
• Recommend contracting strategies including EPC, Design and Build, DBFM, PPP, concession, and framework arrangements.
• Evaluate the suitability of different commercial models against scope maturity, financing, risk allocation, and delivery objectives.
• Work with legal and risk teams to establish contract provisions that allocate obligations and liabilities appropriately.
• Safeguard Client interests while pursuing commercially sustainable agreements with contractors and suppliers.
• Apply procurement governance frameworks across all regional transport packages.
• Ensure tender activities comply with internal policies, public procurement requirements, funding conditions, and applicable regulations.
• Maintain comprehensive procurement records suitable for internal and external audit.
• Identify procurement risks relating to market capacity, inflation, supplier capability, tender delays, contractual interfaces, and award timing.
• Integrate significant procurement and commercial risks into program risk registers.
• Establish mitigation and contingency measures for procurement risks that could affect schedule or cost.
• Develop supplier KPIs and structured performance review mechanisms.
• Monitor contractor, consultant, and supplier performance against commercial and delivery expectations.
• Lead supplier relationship discussions where performance improvement or issue resolution is required.
• Promote collaboration with strategic suppliers without compromising procurement governance or competitive integrity.
• Coordinate closely with Project Directors, engineers, planners, cost managers, and construction teams.
• Ensure package strategies reflect actual design maturity and interface requirements.
• Align procurement decisions with approved budgets and current cost forecasts.
• Support procurement aspects of variations, claims, contract amendments, and re-procurement requirements.
• Assess the commercial implications of material changes before procurement or contractual action is taken.
• Act as the senior procurement interface with government organizations, regulators, partners, and funding agencies.
• Support consultations and approvals required for major regional transport procurements.
• Ensure procurement approaches remain aligned with applicable national and regional transport strategies.
• Produce executive procurement reports highlighting progress, decisions, risks, market conditions, and upcoming awards.
• Lead a team of procurement specialists, category managers, buyers, and support personnel.
• Develop team expertise in strategic sourcing, complex tender evaluation, negotiation, and infrastructure procurement.
• Standardize procurement methodologies, templates, evaluation practices, and reporting tools.
• Capture lessons learned from completed procurements and apply improvements to future tender cycles.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor 's degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Supply Chain Management, Business, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of procurement experience within transport or major infrastructure programs.
• Proven procurement leadership across inter-city rail, regional rail, highways, expressways, BRT, bus networks, freight corridors, logistics infrastructure, or multimodal transport.
• Extensive experience managing high-value procurements from strategy through contract award.
• Strong understanding of civil construction and transport systems procurement.
• Practical knowledge of rail and road systems, infrastructure interfaces, and typical transport contract risks.
• Advanced experience with prequalification, tendering, commercial evaluation, negotiations, and award recommendations.
• Strong understanding of EPC, Design and Build, DBFM, PPP, concession, and framework contracting approaches.
• Experience managing several major procurements concurrently within demanding program schedules.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to assess pricing, risk allocation, qualifications, and contractual exposure.
• Knowledge of international procurement methodologies and standard contract forms.
• Experience working with government organizations, public-sector Clients, or international financial institutions is advantageous.
• GCC or broader Middle East procurement experience is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with Saudi Arabian procurement requirements and infrastructure market dynamics is advantageous.
• Demonstrated ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders.
• Strong executive presentation and procurement reporting capability.
• High standards of ethics, integrity, transparency, and audit discipline.
• Strong analytical judgment and risk-based decision-making skills.
• Master 's degree in Project Management, Infrastructure Management, Supply Chain, or a related discipline is desirable.
• CIPS, ISM, RICS, or equivalent professional certification is highly desirable.
• Experience with PPP and concession models is advantageous.
• Proven ability to build and develop high-performing procurement teams.

Skills Set

• Strategic procurement
• Transport procurement
• Infrastructure procurement
• Procurement strategy
• Strategic sourcing
• Category management
• Procurement planning
• Market engagement
• Supplier prequalification
• Supplier shortlisting
• Tender documentation
• Tender management
• Tender evaluation
• Commercial evaluation
• Contract award
• Commercial negotiation
• Supplier management
• Supplier performance
• Procurement KPIs
• Market intelligence
• Supply chain analysis
• Procurement governance
• Public procurement
• Procurement compliance
• Commercial risk management
• Procurement risk registers
• EPC
• Design and Build
• DBFM
• PPP
• Concession models
• Framework agreements
• Rail procurement
• Highway procurement
• Bus infrastructure
• Logistics corridors
• Multimodal transport
• Civil works procurement
• Transport systems procurement
• Professional services procurement
• Pricing schedules
• Contract risk allocation
• Procurement reporting
• Executive presentations
• Contract amendments
• Claims support
• Change management
• CIPS
• ISM
• RICS

Why Join Us

Regional transport expansion across Saudi Arabia is increasing the scale and commercial complexity of rail, highway, logistics, and multimodal infrastructure procurement. This position provides substantial influence over how major Construction packages are structured, competed, negotiated, and awarded in Riyadh. For a senior procurement professional, it offers a pathway to shape supplier strategy, contracting models, commercial governance, and procurement capability across strategically important transport investments.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, infrastructure, program management, and technology solutions for major transportation programs worldwide. In Saudi Arabia, its teams contribute to complex transport and development initiatives through procurement strategy, commercial management, engineering, program controls, technical assurance, and integrated project delivery.