Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design,
engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 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.
As an Arcadian, you already help us deliver world leading sustainable design,
engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. You are
part of our global business comprising 34,000 people, in over 30 countries,
dedicated to improving quality of life.
Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds,
together we can continue to solve the world’s most complex challenges and
deliver more impact together.
Role description:
Seeking a Procurement Delivery Lead – Electric Capital Construction to support
capital delivery construction procurement activity. This is a contractor role
operating at a manager level as a senior individual contributor. The role will
be the right hand to the director and will provide hands-on procurement,
sourcing, commercial, bid execution, and process improvement support for complex
electric construction work.
The successful candidate will partner closely with Procurement leadership,
category managers, project management, engineering, construction, legal,
finance, safety, operations, and business stakeholders to plan and execute
strategic sourcing events. The role will focus on improving decisions around
delivery models, bid readiness, sourcing quality, supplier engagement,
commercial discipline, governance, award documentation, and overall procurement
execution.
In addition to supporting active sourcing events, this role will be expected to
provide thought leadership and strategic improvement capability. The individual
will help Procurement scale its operating model to support a significantly
growing capital delivery workplan by identifying process improvement
opportunities, introducing new ways of working, implementing repeatable tools
and templates, and leading execution of practical improvements that increase
capacity, consistency, transparency, and stakeholder confidence.
The successful candidate must be comfortable operating in an environment where
the work is complex, fast-moving, and not always fully defined. They will be
expected to bring structure, pace, clarity, and constructive challenge to
sourcing activity while supporting procurement managers and category leads in
translating business requirements into executable procurement plans and
leadership-ready deliverables.
Role accountabilities:
Capital Construction Bid Execution:
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 escalate 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.
Construction Procurement and Commercial Strategy:
Advise on appropriate sourcing strategies and commercial models for
construction work, including lump sum, unit price, time and materials, EPC,
EPCM, framework agreements, master service agreements, contractor panels, and
project-specific awards.
Support the development of negotiation strategies that address cost,
schedule, productivity, change management, risk allocation, payment terms,
warranties, insurance, bonding, escalation, claims avoidance, and performance
expectations.
Apply total cost of ownership thinking to construction sourcing decisions,
including mobilization, demobilization, outage constraints, productivity
assumptions, change order exposure, contractor availability, supplier
switching costs, and long-term delivery risk.
Partner with Legal, Risk, Safety, Finance, Engineering, Construction, and
Project Management to resolve commercial exceptions and align contractual
positions with project delivery needs.
Challenge unclear assumptions, gaps in scope, weak commercial positions, or
sourcing approaches that could create downstream delivery, cost, schedule,
safety, affordability, or governance risk.
Prepare commercially sound recommendations that balance cost, risk, capacity,
safety, schedule certainty, supplier performance, regulatory defensibility,
and stakeholder requirements.
Qualifications & Experience:
7+ years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, commercial
management, contract negotiation, supply chain, vendor management,
construction contracting, or capital project procurement.
Significant experience supporting construction sourcing, infrastructure
procurement, utility procurement, energy projects, EPC/EPCM environments,
capital projects, or complex field services.
Demonstrated experience developing and managing RFPs, RFQs, bid packages,
pricing schedules, evaluation models, negotiation plans, sourcing strategies,
and award recommendation materials.
Strong understanding of construction procurement and contracting
considerations, including scope definition, pricing structure, schedule
commitments, safety requirements, labor availability, change orders, claims
risk, insurance, bonding, warranties, and payment milestones.
Preferred Experience
Direct experience with electric utility construction categories such as
transmission, distribution, substations, civil construction, underground
construction, overhead line work, emergency response, or related capital
delivery services.
Experience working in a regulated utility, energy, public infrastructure,
engineering, construction, or capital project delivery environment.
Familiarity with construction delivery models such as EPC, EPCM,
design-bid-build, design-build, alliance contracting, master service
agreements, contractor panels, and framework agreements.
Experience supporting large-scale capital programs with multiple
stakeholders, compressed timelines, high spend, complex governance, and
significant business visibility.
Experience improving procurement execution through templates, tools, process
discipline, reporting, governance routines, stakeholder communication, and
operating model improvements.
Familiarity with supplier performance management, construction KPIs,
contractor scorecards, post-award handoff requirements, and lessons-learned
processes.
Experience helping organizations scale capability during periods of
significant workplan growth or capital investment expansion.
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. 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 employer. 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 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range
for this position is $160000 - $180000. Actual salaries will vary and are based
on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity,
project and location.