Global Technology Procurement Manager

il y a 2 semaines


Paris, Île-de-France Arcadis Temps plein

About Arcadis

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are a global organization with over 36,000 people in more than 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Our team of experts works together to solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Job Summary

The Global Technology Procurement Manager will serve as a category manager for the Global Technology Procurement Team. This role is responsible for identifying suppliers and strategic partners that align with Tech's strategic objectives, 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.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead global projects from bid strategy formulation, creating, and managing the RFP process, recommendation of vendor selection, to final contract negotiation.
  • Develop negotiation strategies and gain stakeholder buy-in.
  • Partner with the Tech Leadership Team, legal, global Information security, and data privacy to create and drive strategy.
  • Ensure adherence to procurement policies, procedures, and systems to ensure a uniform method of work that delivers exceptional performance values for Arcadis and its clients.
  • Manage spend in IT categories including software, hardware, and services. Effectively execute the Global Technology Officer's strategic vision.
  • 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.

Shared Responsibilities

  • Technology Procurement is responsible for all technology product and service 3rd party expenditures across the Arcadis global enterprise.
  • Strategic Tech activities, such as business partnering and category management, fall within the remit of Tech Procurement. With the end goal being 100% Tech spend accountability.
  • Tactical activities sit within GSSC. Tech category managers are often required to provide guidance and mentorship to GSSC.
  • Technology Procurement Business Partner roles generally sit on the Technology Leadership Team. Category managers will be required to partner with the Global Technology Officer and his direct reports.
  • Each Tech Category (i.e. Software, Professional Services, Security, Telecommunications, Hardware, Etc) should have a dedicated procurement partner or manager assigned to manage it.
  • All Tech Procurement partners and managers will be assigned to a Technology Leadership Team member to partner on strategy development and spend management.

Requirements

  • Degree qualified (Master preferred but not essential) in business, finance, IT, or equivalent.
  • Demonstrate significant experience working within indirect procurement, across technology, ideally across hardware, software, and IT services, within a large matrix organization.
  • Experience being a strategic thinker, who can contribute ideas and perspective to procurement and tech leaders.
  • Demonstrate experience leading multimillion-dollar deals, communicating and presenting to senior level executives, with an ability to be quickly grasp business objectives and strategies and understand how they align to service offerings support and attainment of those objectives.
  • Show experience in problem-solving complex contractual challenges and bringing a solution-focused approach with a client focus mindset, working independently and consistently in a fast-paced environment with a demonstrated ability to meet goals and deadlines.

Desired Experience

  • A flexible, dynamic, self-demanding, and proactive individual; able to motivate themselves.
  • Possesses a client-focused approach, as demonstrated by a flexible and enthusiastic approach to work assignments and new learning opportunities.
  • The ability to independently problem-solve and create solutions for complex contractual challenges.
  • Knowledge of Oracle ERP.
  • Independent problem solver. Capable of adapting to and creating solutions for challenges posed by a multi-million dollar negotiation.


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