Associate Director

Associate Director

Help us turn vision into reality.

Become a vital member of our Complex Projects team, proudly taking on some of the world's most exciting and prestigious projects. Join us, and you'll be part of our genuinely collaborative environment, where everyone is supported to make the most of their talents. It's about recognising everyone's contributions equally while delivering excellence together.

Flexible and remote working are central to our culture, so talk to us about what's important to you, from reduced weeks to buying more leave, and how we can make reasonable adjustments for you or support your ambitions outside of work.

As an Associate Director within our Procurement Team, you'll be responsible for delivering work driven by excellence - and doing the right thing. We have a reputation for working on some of the UK's most high-profile commissions across a wide range of projects and sectors, including infrastructure, education, corporate real estate, retail, residential, aviation, and healthcare. As well as building long-term, sustainable relationships with key clients, you'll also be a catalyst for your colleagues' career progression.

Your Role

• We are seeking a highly motivated and highly experienced Associate Director to help us lead our team of Procurement Consultants within the London Commercial and Procurement team.
• The successful candidate will be passionate about working with our clients and will bring a growth mindset to build and strengthen key client relationships.
• As an Associate Director, your role will require you to draw on your procurement, commercial and supply chain expertise to advise on and deliver a broad range of procurement and commercial requirements. You will lead procurement best practice, identify opportunities for continuous improvement, and lead procurements within the client organisation to enhance their procurement and commercial capability.
• From shaping procurement strategies and leading sourcing activities through to supplier relationship management, you will help clients achieve maximum value from their supply chain ecosystem while delivering sustainable commercial outcomes.
• Working with clients across the public and private sector, you will use your skills – technical and others - to share your knowledge, expertise, and experience, and ultimately to deliver fantastic services.
• You will work collaboratively with our clients and their supply chain partners to develop/deliver solutions to complex and dynamic problems.

About You

• Degree qualified, with membership or working towards a relevant professional body such as MCIPs.
• Highly experienced in delivering procurement activities across major programmes and complex infrastructure environments such as utilities, transport, energy, or defence.
• Experience in a client facing environment, working alongside multidisciplinary teams of colleagues, clients and partners to deliver solutions to complex client or industry challenges.
• Proven experience in leading the development and implementation of procurement strategies, defining requirements, leading sourcing and tendering activities, supporting contract mobilisation and driving value through effective supplier and contract management.
• Experience in industry standard contract forms such as NEC, JTC or FIDIC and developing bespoke contracts with the ability to understand and advise on contractual and commercial risks.
• Highly experienced in a wide range of end-to-end procurement lifecycle activities, with the ability to advise or deliver complex procurements across client strategic projects.
• Strong commercial awareness with experience in supporting clients achieving procurement objectives, improving commercial outcomes and enhancing organisational procurement capability.
• Experienced in leading business development activities, including client relationship management, opportunity identification, proposal development, bid writing and supporting the growth of client relationships.
• Experience of working within public and private sector organisations, including use of Public Sector Procurement Regulations such as Public Contract Regulations 2015, Utilities Regulations 2016 and an understanding of key legislative changes under the Procurement Act 2023.
• Possesses strong communication, engagement and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, challenge and build consensus across complex stakeholder environments. Able to utilise a range of communication and engagement tools to support effective decision making and organisational buy-in at a senior level.
• Lead, develop and inspire high-performing teams by promoting a culture of continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
• A proactive and growth-orientated mindset with a commitment to continuous professional development, technical excellence and delivering high quality outcomes for clients whilst representing the AtkinsRéalis brand.

Rewards & Benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional Information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

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