Company Description

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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Our Strategic Procurement team supports a broad range of clients across sectors and geographies including Ireland, the UK and globally on their major projects and programmes that enables the efficient, and effective, delivery of business outcomes. Through leveraging the vast expertise and capability within our company, our team are able to create and deliver innovative approaches across three key service areas:

Procurement and commercial strategy,
Supply chain management,
Procurement execution

This allows us to support across the entire procurement process and project lifecycle adding value at all stages, leading major client engagements, providing expert advice and guidance to drive strategic initiatives and deliver measurable value. This role involves working with leaders and Execs to design and oversee the implementation of tailored solutions that for the key procurement activity which we see as a cornerstone for project success.

As we continue to grow our presence in Ireland, we are particularly interested in individuals who bring a strong understanding of the Irish infrastructure landscape and are passionate about shaping its future.

How we work

We align ourselves with our client organisations. We are successful when our client is successful.
We listen and invest time with clients to build long-term relationships to foster trust, understanding their needs and existing operations.
We proactively develop a diverse network of contacts, establishing partnerships across both internal and client teams to create high value solutions to industry and client challenges.
We build strong trusting relationships with relevant stakeholders where we provide expert advice, insight and challenge.
We plan and deliver strategic procurement and supply chain initiatives, working across teams to ensure successful adoption and alignment and to achieve desire business or behaviour change outcomes.
We monitor progress and adapt to meet the needs of the project or programme to ensure success.

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives. Why not give our AECOM page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see firsthand the difference we're making in the industry!

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible

Here’s what we’re looking for:

High emotional intelligence and self-awareness of your behaviours in different situations and among complex stakeholder environments.
A demonstrable track record of having delivered high-quality, strategic procurement and commercial advice to major infrastructure clients, particularly in Ireland, on their flagship projects.
Collaboration with AECOM’s infrastructure clients to provide high-impact procurement advice, strategic guidance, and specialist procurement expertise, ensuring that procurement processes are aligned with market capacity and capability, are comprehensive, and fully comply with applicable Irish and EU public procurement rules, guidelines, and regulations.
Strong understanding of Irish public procurement regulations, frameworks, supplier market and delivery models.
A leader in your profession, evidenced through responsibility for delivery, but through collaborative team working.
An experienced facilitator of stakeholders. Where you encounter conflicting perspectives or priorities you can adapt to ensure you still gain insights, consensus or action.
Familiarity with the infrastructure landscape, funding models, and delivery partners in Ireland.
Engage in lifelong learning, adapting to emerging trends and technologies to stay at the forefront of industry changes.
A mentor to your colleagues enhancing the wider team’s knowledge of delivering major projects and programmes, operating in ambiguity and delivering a pace to build a resilient skill base and culture of continuous learning.
A proficient internal and external networker identifying and pursuing opportunities for both the service offer and client growth of Strategic Procurement.
Possess strong people skills and be an effective communicator, able to influence, challenge and establish yourself as a trusted advisor.

Experience

Experience in the infrastructure sector, with a strong track record of delivering advisory services to key infrastructure clients in Ireland / Northern Ireland.
Demonstrable experience leading complex programmes and projects at scale and pace within a consultancy, the Public Sector or Private delivery organisation.
Significant post-qualification experience of procurement for complex construction and infrastructure projects or programmes of work, with sector experience in infrastructure, specifically Energy, Defence, Transportation and Water.
Leadership experience in the provision of strategic advice to key clients through the process of designing the optimum delivery model, contract strategy, commercial model and route to market for their project.
Experience in leading competitive procurement processes including market engagement, supplier shortlisting, tender document development, tender management, evaluation and negotiation.
Experience in developing, reviewing, or delivering high value procurement advice which aligns to client objectives and strategic priorities whilst satisfying value-for-money assessments.
Experience of delivery throughout the procurement lifecycle, from strategy development, through sourcing actions and into the contract management and supplier engagement phases.
Experience working with and interpreting public procurement regulations legislation and regulatory frameworks, with the ability to incorporate these into procurement design and strategic recommendations.
Experience of supporting work winning activity including contributing to proposal documentation.

Additional Information

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have 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 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.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Strategic Procurement Lead

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