Procurement Buyer

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.

Individual accountabilities:

Procure to Pay:

• Processes requisition demand including creating purchasing documents.
• Perform purchase order administration tasks including ensuring purchases are appropriately categorized, importing purchase orders from external applications, applying retroactive price changes, and communicating purchase orders
• Place order requirements to supplier website e-catalogues in response to information received through requisitions
• Communicate purchase orders and liaise with suppliers and other stakeholders to ensure successful and timely delivery of purchased goods and services
• Perform purchase order control tasks including change order processing, expediting orders, order cancellations, order freeze, hold and close outsEstablish suppliers as an approved supply source by processing supplier registration requests and managing supplier profile information

Supplier Risk and Supplier Data management

• Manage and analyze supplier master data and resolve issues and revisions needed to best meet internal customer requirements while adhering to published data standards
• Transmit prequalification questionnaires to potential suppliers and check the details included in completed returns
• Ensure master data integrity and quality in key systems as well as perform ongoing data maintenance and cleansing activities
• Create and manage purchase agreements and catalog content including catalogs, category hierarchy, content zones, information templates, map sets, public shopping lists, and smart forms
• Perform purchase agreement administration tasks including importing agreements from external applications, applying retroactive price changes, reassigning agreements from one agent to another
• Perform purchase agreement control tasks including close, finally close, freeze, and hold

Key Shared Accountabilities:

• Query Management: Provides technical fiduciary advice on procurement activities and engages in policy dialogue to strengthen procurement systems
• Check that contracts for the supply of goods and services comply with relevant legislation
• Run reports and analyze purchase requisition and purchase order transactional information to monitor spend and pricing arrangements in commercial agreements

Profile Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree, Supply Chain or Procurement related degree an advantage
• Basic knowledge of IT ERP systems and databases, preferably Oracle, desired but not mandatory.
• At least 2 years of Procurement experience 
• Experienced in using Microsoft Office suite. (Experience in maintaining data management is preferred.)
• Experience working in Shared Services is an advantage
• Effective communication skills (written and oral)
• Proficiency in MS Office applications (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word
• Data and technology: Adopting data-driven decision-making, leveraging data to create and demonstrate value. Tech savvy comfortable and curious about technologies. 

Drive success:

• Create a sense of shared ownership and accountability balancing this with decisiveness and holding others to account for delivery. 
• Take ownership of own responsibility, creating clarity and motivating and aligning others. 
• Internalize organizational goals, making them one's own personal stretch goals. 
• Outcomes focused and tackle challenges head-on.

Ignite passion:  

• Personally role model commitment to improving quality of life and putting sustainability at the core.
• Apply an adaptive style to engagement that is culturally sensitive and appeals to the personal needs of others.
• Integrate their work, helping others connect their work and the bigger picture. 
• Maintain personal resilience, rebound from setbacks, and help others do the same. 
• Build trust through authenticity, demonstrating integrity and courage regarding own convictions.

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.