Senior Procurement Consultant

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

**Job Description**:
Senior Procurement Consultant

**Location**: Flexible (role will require travel ~2 days per week)

**Job Summary**:
At AECOM we help our clients to deliver the most iconic and complex building and infrastructure projects in the world. We do this by leveraging our world-class talent, scale and unique service offering to produce results. It’s one thing to imagine a better world. AECOM was built to deliver it.

We have commenced a journey to build a market leading contracts and procurement service to support our clients to deliver their high-value and complex infrastructure projects. We strive to offer excellence across the full procurement lifecycle, from front-end advisory to develop the optimum procurement strategy through to effective delivery of procurement competitions.

If you think you can help us on our journey and if you thrive working in a client facing environment, we’d love to hear from you.

**Key objectives of the role**:
Provide high-quality procurement advice and support to AECOM’s infrastructure clients on their flagship projects:
+ Lead projects with up to two clients at any given time.

+ Contribute your expertise to the development of the procurement service offering.

+ Collaborate with AECOM colleagues to deliver quality outcomes for our clients.

+ Challenge yourself in a market leading business.

**Key responsibilities of the role**:
+ Provide procurement strategy advice including leading clients through the process of designing the optimum delivery model, contract strategy, commercial model and route to market for their project.

+ Lead the competitive procurement process including market engagement, supplier shortlisting, tender document development, tender management, evaluation and negotiation.

+ Provide advice on commercial topics including incentive models and performance management.

+ Support work winning activity including identifying leads with existing AECOM clients and contributing to proposal documentation.

+ Support the development of AECOM’s procurement service offering.

**Minimum requirements**:
+ Proven capability delivering complex procurement projects over a sustained period.

+ Broad range of project experience.

+ Enjoys being accountable and takes pride in the quality of their work.

+ Can work independently while being confident to approach colleagues for support when required.

+ Good influencing skills.

+ Can evidence high levels of commercial acumen and the benefits this has delivered to various projects.

+ Passionate about individual, team and client success.

+ Well connected across the industry.

**Preferred technical knowledge**:
+ Rail, highway, aviation, utility sector understanding

+ Standard contract forms including NEC or FIDIC

+ Public Contract Regulations understanding

**Preferred qualifications**:
+ Relevant degree, for example, in business, engineering or science

+ CIPS qualified or equivalent

**Qualifications**:
**Preferred qualifications**:
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