Director, Digital Procurement & Supply Chain Transformation

Overview

Lead growth and delivery of digital procurement & supply chain solutions in the UK.

Key Responsibilities

• project delivery
• client relations
• business development
• digital supply
• procurement solutions
• solution development

Tasks

-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. -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. -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 -Lead the establishment of key performance targets and financial budgets for the team, optimising business performance in alignment with set objectives. -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. -Develop and own market strategy to strengthen our brand and expand our penetration and growth of our services across our key markets and sectors. -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. -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. -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.

Requirements

• sector knowledge
• executive relations
• digital procurement
• tech adoption
• leadership
• supply chain

What You Bring

-Preferable to have domain knowledge in our key sectors and experience working with some of our key clients. -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. -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. -Leadership and people management skills, ability to collaborate across geographies and experience in developing and managing client-facing consulting delivery approaches. -Proven leader in delivering and managing significant digital and innovative solutions for supply chain management and procurement.

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About Arcadis

-Evolved into a global design, engineering and consultancy powerhouse. -Excels in major infrastructure, water management, urban building, transport and industrial manufacturing projects worldwide. -Recent standout assignments include flood defences in New York, the Sydney Metro, and sustainable legacy planning for the Paris Olympics. -Structured around core business areas—Places, Mobility, Resilience and Intelligence—backed by digital centres of excellence. -Notable for blending data-driven tools with traditional consulting to optimise asset lifecycles and smart infrastructure.

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