Job Vacancy | Management Consultant – Contracting Specialist – Arcadis

Management Consultant – Supply Chain Delivery Model Specialist

Multiple UK locations: London, Leeds, York, Warrington, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Newmarket

Arcadis

At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.

One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.

Role description:
Our Business Transformation (Management Consulting) team is recognised in the market for the quality of its people. Beyond expertise in one or more of our core consulting disciplines, you will need the ability to articulate complex ideas persuasively and a talent for showing clients that we have the right solutions to their most pressing issues.

Supply chain relationships are key to the success of our clients. At Arcadis, we get excited about bringing clients and suppliers closer together and finding new sources of value. Informed by our deep sector experience, our solutions offer effective incentivisation and management of risk, and reflect the cultural levers required to drive collaboration, innovation, and trust. We are looking for consultants who help us further strengthen and grow our work in this area.

Our experts in procurement and supply chain management work closely with broader technical, delivery and consulting skills from across Arcadis, providing both best practice market insights and practical implementation advice. Our end-to-end service offer includes:

• Supply Chain Strategy: creating strategic change and actionable plans to align supply chains with clients’ business objectives and priorities. This includes embedding new capabilities and ways of working in our clients’ organisations, including skills and operating models to meet future business needs.
• Procurement Delivery: a fully comprehensive procurement service, which delivers robust and efficiently priced contracts, with pace and assurance, typically within the Public Sector.
• Build Capability: developing comprehensive supplier performance management systems and processes to support the continuous improvement of our clients
• Delivering Outcomes: Building resilience & sustainability within the supply chain, and rapidly delivering cost & customer performance improvements.

Role accountabilities:
General accountabilities:

• Management of client projects through their lifecycle, from initial pitch through to solution design and activity planning, successful delivery, and knowledge capture
• Diagnosing and tackling complex procurement and supply chain-related business problems, across large-scale consulting engagements, designing and implementing solutions that can demonstrate benefits and value delivered
• Analysing markets, trends, risks and opportunities, to provide fresh insights to clients
• Communicating potential solutions and outcomes to clients and stakeholders
• Continuous development of our supply chain services and sector-specific offerings

Specific accountabilities:

While our consultants all work in flexible and agile ways across collaborative project teams, we are particularly looking for a candidate who can lead on the following accountabilities:

• Development of contracting and commercial strategies which underpin major programme commercial and supply chain delivery models
• Alignment of contract form and contract strategy with business and project outcomes (including benefits realisation, culture, ways of working and organisational design)
• Provision of best-in-class contractual benchmarking across the UK and global infrastructure market, bringing clients the latest thinking in terms of contracting strategy
• Capture and communication of lessons learned from the application of different contracting and commercial strategies on previous major programmes
• Advise on how to operationalise best practice (e.g. Project 13, UK Government Construction Play Book and System of Systems delivery philosophies) in the context of contract forms and contract strategies

Qualifications & Experience:
You will join an entrepreneurial team that is growing fast. It’s important that you can understand the challenges and opportunities facing supply chains and combine a commercial and strategic mindset with strong relationship skills. You will be a problem solving and outcome-thinking individual, who can quickly understand clients’ business needs and deliver solutions.

Whilst potential is more important to us than experience, ideally you will also have at least some of the following key skills and expertise:

Essential

• Experience of multiple contract forms, for example NEC, JCT, FIDIC, ICC, IChemE
• Experience in both pre and post contract management
• An ability to clearly articulate complex contracting strategies to senior stakeholders, including those not experienced in detailed contractual issues or terminology
• An ability to align business and project outcomes and contracting strategies in a major construction environment
• Ability to model different contracting and incentivisation structures, and anticipate outcomes for the contracting parties
• Demonstrable ability to understand and assess business problems, and build and communicate practical improvement recommendations

Desired

• Current or previous involvement with industry level developments in contracting and contracting strategy
• Knowledge and understanding of key skills and components that make a successful management consultant
• Demonstrate understanding of how management consulting projects are typically delivered – from project start & mobilisation, through to delivering clients requirements and expectations
• Knowledge and appreciation of identifying new opportunities and supporting proposals to secure work
• Knowledge of the application of other best practice in aspects of supply chain management, which could include, for example:
  • Strategic sourcing and category management
  • Operational procurement delivery
  • Contract management
  • Supplier performance and relationship management
  • Risk management and mitigation strategies
  • Supply/demand planning
  • Product management
  • Supply chain reporting, data analytics and digitisation
• Ability to carry out market, trend and/or business/supply chain performance analysis
• Project leadership including management of other professional team members, or comparable in an industry role
• Desirable MCIPS or MRICS, or interest in working towards

Why Become an Arcadian?

Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth’s resources, we can create a sustainable planet.

We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.

To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2035.

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.