Senior Buyer, Indirect Procurement (Finance)
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 seeks a Procurement Buyer, Indirect to function as a key member of the Arcadis Global Procurement team to identify suppliers as appropriate for a category, managing competitive bids, negotiating, and awarding contracts, resolving supplier and contract issues, ensuring adherence to Procurement Policy, creating, and driving savings and other incentives and any other procurement activity required to support the business.
The Indirect Procurement Buyer will design and manage a strategic RFP process. Indirect Procurement includes spend categories that supports functions across a global enterprise such as IT, Human Resources, Finance, Workplace, Travel etc.
Role accountabilities:
Assisting in bid strategy formulation, creating, and managing an RFP process, recommendation of vendor selection, and final contract negotiation;
Ensure adherence to and support Procurement policies, procedures, and systems to ensure a uniform method of work approaches that delivers exceptional performance values for Arcadis and its clients;
Reports directly to the Global Director - Indirect & Tech Procurement. Manage spend in Indirect categories including Workplace, Travel, Marketing and Professional Services. Effectively communicate with clients, suppliers, and internal functional groups regarding company and procurement issues;
Communicate and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholder groups to advocate best in class procurement practices;
Work independently and consistently in a fast- paced environment with a demonstrated ability to meet goals and deadlines.
Key Attributes:
- A thorough knowledge and understanding of procurement concepts, principles, and practices;
- Ability to quickly grasp business objectives and strategies and how service offerings support the attainment of those objective;
- Good level of proficiency in business computer applications including good Excel skills;
- Possesses a strong client focus, as demonstrated by a flexible and enthusiastic approach to work assignments and new learning opportunities
Qualifications & Experience:
Required Qualifications:
- 4 - 10 years of experience in procurement; strong experience in indirect procurement
- Bachelor's degree in business, Finance, IT, or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Indirect procurement experience is strongly preferred across multiple categories such as tech, travel, marketing, and Information Security
- Oracle experience preferred
- Experience working in a large organization, preferably Fortune 500 company, preferred
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 are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year.
The salary range for this position is $100,0000 - $125,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.
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