Digital Procurement & Supply Chain Director - #1746529

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:

We are seeking an inspiring and innovative leader to drive the continued successful growth of our Digital, and Supply Chain & Procurement Advisory practices in the UK. This is a unique opportunity allows you to bring new ideas to shape the future of our business and deliver our strong ambitions to advance Digital Procurement & Supply Chain (DP&SC) market solutions, delivering excellence to clients, and fostering innovation to ensure our offerings stay ahead of evolving market demands.

In this role, you will be accountable for driving growth, increasing market awareness, advancing our solutions and delivering Digital Procurement and Supply Chain (Digital P&SC) engagements, with a strong focus on achieving revenue targets, client satisfaction and lasting benefits. You will lead the evolution of our Digital P&SC offering, leveraging technology and data to optimise client outcomes, with the goal of generating £1m+ in revenue in year one and scaling to £3m+ by year three.

We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities:

The Director will:

• Direct and lead the development of market-differentiated Digital P&SC solutions, delivering tangible benefits for clients via the digitalisation of Procurement & Supply Chain activities, and from improved procurement of digital technologies.
• Mature and strengthen our solutions and services in Digital Supply Chain & Procurement, in alignment to our sector and clients’ needs. Grow and position the team to deliver high-value, innovative solutions, supporting resilient pipeline, market expansion, and securing high-margin, impactful projects
• Develop and own market strategy to strengthen our brand and expand our penetration and growth of our services across our key markets and sectors.
• Own and lead the delivery of targets for growth and revenue through developing and growing personal client relationships, identifying and securing opportunities and active engagement with account and sector leads.
• Actively encourage and facilitate collaboration across Business Advisory and the wider Arcadis organisation (inc. Global Excellence Centres) to enhance solution development, drive strategic pursuits, and ensure seamless project delivery.
• Contribute to the leadership of the UK Digital Advisory practice by assisting in setting objectives, managing performance, and ensuring the team possesses the necessary insights, knowledge, skills, and resources to achieve business plan objectives and professional development goals.
• Lead the delivery of large projects, ensuring client satisfaction, effective project management, and fostering communication and collaboration among Arcadis colleagues.
• Develop trusted relationships with client team members at the Executive and Senior Management levels (including CPOs and their senior teams). Leverage these relationships to generate new business opportunities and propose innovative solutions that meet client and market needs.
• Lead the establishment of key performance targets and financial budgets for the team, optimising business performance in alignment with set objectives.
• Lead client relationships, monitoring performance, and taking appropriate action to meet or exceed client expectations while aligning with Arcadis' commercial objectives.
• Lead teams to shape and win bids for projects, ensuring profitability and alignment with client needs.
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

• Proven leader in delivering and managing significant digital and innovative solutions for supply chain management and procurement.
• The candidate will be recognised by clients and the market as an expert and creative thinker within digital procurement & supply chain. their chosen areas of speciality.
• Ability to view technology through a business lens, including expertise in how to drive adoption and the realisation of tangible business outcomes and benefits.
• Preferable to have domain knowledge in our key sectors and experience working with some of our key clients.
• Leadership and people management skills, ability to collaborate across geographies and experience in developing and managing client-facing consulting delivery approaches.
• Experience managing business relationships at Senior and Executive levels within client organisations and have demonstrated ability to directly influence client behaviours and decisions and deals effectively with high risk, high value executive client situation.
  
  

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 believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.