Electric Capital Construction Procurement Lead

Arcadis; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) plan

Short-term/long-term disability (STD/L

AD&D and life insurance

Paid parental leave

Wellbeing benefits (optional)

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Procurement Delivery Lead – Electric Capital Construction to support major capital delivery procurement. This contractor role works at manager level, partnering with leadership to plan and execute sourcing events, manage commercial strategies, and improve governance and transparency across projects.

The role focuses on delivering structured, scalable procurement processes, templates, and repeatable tools, while ensuring alignment with safety, schedule, and stakeholder

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, commercial management, contract negotiation, supply chain, vendor management, construction contracting, or capital project procurement.

Responsibilities

• Lead or support sourcing events for capital construction work, including transmission, distribution, substation, civil, underground, overhead line, and related electric infrastructure construction services.
• Develop and maintain sourcing event plans, bid calendars, procurement trackers, milestone schedules, responsibility matrices, action logs, issue logs, and decision logs.
• Support development of RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, bid forms, pricing schedules, evaluation criteria, supplier instructions, clarification logs, negotiation materials, and award recommendation packages.
• Ensure sourcing events are released to market with clear scopes of work, commercial requirements, pricing structures, safety expectations, schedule assumptions, evaluation methodology, and governance requirements.
• Coordinate supplier questions, stakeholder responses, bid clarifications, addenda, site visit requirements, pricing updates, evaluation meetings, and negotiation preparation.
• Identify and escalation bid execution risks, including incomplete scope definition, unclear commercial positions, unrealistic timelines, supplier capacity constraints, labor availability, safety concerns, or stakeholder alignment gaps.
• Drive sourcing activity to agreed timelines while maintaining appropriate governance, documentation, commercial discipline, and decision quality.

Skills

Procurement

Strategic sourcing

Contract negotiation

Construction procurement

RFPs/RFQs

Vendor management

Capital projects

Job description

Arcadis is seeking a Procurement Delivery Lead – Electric Capital Construction to support major capital delivery procurement. This contractor role works at manager level, partnering with leadership to plan and execute sourcing events, manage commercial strategies, and improve governance and transparency across projects.

The role focuses on delivering structured, scalable procurement processes, templates, and repeatable tools, while ensuring alignment with safety, schedule, and stakeholder