Contract Advisor

Arcadis is the global partner at the forefront of the most impactful projects of our time. We help our clients make sustainable choices through the combination of digital innovation, expertise, and future-oriented skills in areas such as environment, energy, water, buildings, transport, and infrastructure. We take that extra step to offer our clients tailored solutions for design, engineering, and consultancy. By utilizing data-driven insights, we shape the natural and built environment together.

With more than 34,000 people, we pool global expertise and tackle challenges such as climate, affordable energy, and livable cities together. We improve quality of life through our presence in more than 30 countries.

For the Contract Management team within the Business Unit Cost & Commercial Management (CCM), we are looking for a contract advisor. The Contract Management team consists of a diverse group of engaged employees. We guide contract preparation and procurement, contract management, assessment, and implementation support for various clients in the public sector. This role specifically involves drafting and managing integrated contracts for projects from, among others, Rijkswaterstaat, provinces, ProRail, water boards, and clients such as Schiphol. It concerns the realization and management of infrastructure, but also water treatment plants together with our colleagues from the Water division.

Our contract advisors help the client in drafting the best procurement strategy, converting this strategy into a suitable contract, and bringing this contract to market via the most appropriate tendering procedure. By looking to the future through a risk-driven approach, they create, together with our clients, working methods that contribute to achieving project objectives and preventing disputes or unforeseen circumstances. We also safeguard this in the realization phase in which we provide contract management.

As a contract advisor, you are responsible for drafting integrated products and services within the field of procurement strategy, contract preparation, procurement, and system-oriented contract management. You will deal with various types of contracts, primarily UAV-GC, different procurement methods, and different forms of contract management.

In this role, you will mainly work together with colleagues on Arcadis projects and act as an advisor for one or more of our clients. You will work in a team with other (senior and junior) contract advisors and with specialists from the entire Arcadis organization. Development can take place both in depth (specialist contract management) and in breadth (various technical disciplines).

Activities that belong to your package of tasks are: procurement advice, contract preparation, tendering support, assessment coordination, contract management and administration, and tender processes.

We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague who is meticulous and knows how to translate information from a project and from involved specialists into legally sound requirements. You have an integrated view of projects and an affinity for technology. You can translate input into a requirement specification, procurement documents, and other documents that are part of the procurement file. Your profile:

• Completed higher professional education (HBO) or academic level, preferably in civil engineering or technical business administration;
• Affinity with contract advice, tendering support, and contract management in complex projects;
• Approximately 5 years of relevant work experience within the infra or water sector at a government, contractor, or consultancy or engineering firm;
• You stand by your opinion and dare to take responsibility;
• You are proactive, integrous, and communicatively skilled;
• Excellent command of the Dutch and English languages, both spoken and written.

Do you recognize yourself in the profile above and do you envision a future where there is room for development and where you can apply your expertise on a project basis for our clients? Then we look forward to receiving your application.

We achieve our goals by enabling everyone to get the best out of themselves. We believe that everyone's contribution matters. That is why we pioneer with an approach based on your skills and build a 'Skills Powered Organisation'. With your unique experience and expertise, you will map out your own career path. Together we maximize impact! Your work makes the difference. Whatever role you play, you help provide sustainable solutions for a healthier planet. Leave your mark on your career, your colleagues, clients, your life, and the world around you. On our website, you can read the blogs of Arcadians to find out how we do this.

Arcadis offers you a position with a lot of freedom to independently shape your work in an ambitious and driven team. In addition to a great work culture, we have also included excellent employment conditions, including:

• 30 days of leave with full-time employment, with the possibility to buy or sell extra days.
• Employees may use the NS business card for private use free of charge.
• Additional arrangements regarding partner parental leave and paid parental leave.
• Possibility for hybrid working, facilitated by an appropriate home office allowance and a professionally equipped workspace at home.
• Good pension scheme with the Dutch Pension Fund (HNPF), where Arcadis pays the largest part of the premium.
• Opportunities to follow courses and training, access to our extensive Arcadis Learning Experience Platform (LXP).

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

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We want you to be your best self every day. We take equality and inclusion very seriously and we hold ourselves accountable for our actions. We want to be an employer of choice and offer everyone a great workplace.

Recruitment, secondment, and HR agencies do not need to respond; acquisition following this vacancy is not appreciated.

An assessment and/or pre-employment screening may be part of the application procedure.