Global Sourcing Specialist - Strategic Sourcing Indirect Spend

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Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Global Sourcing Specialist to join our Global Procurement team. This role will support indirect spend categories across multiple regions, working in a growing and evolving procurement function.

We are looking for someone with proven experience in services procurement and the ability to drive change in a decentralized environment. The successful candidate will apply a data-driven, strategic approach to sourcing and will thrive in an international, collaborative setting. This position is ideal for a results-oriented self-starter who can think creatively about sourcing strategies, adapt to diverse business needs, and build strong stakeholder relationships across countries and cultures.

Key Responsibilities:

• Category & strategy development
• Contribute to AECOM’s Think & Act Global strategy by supporting multiple categories of spend across regions.
• Develop and implement sourcing strategies tailored to business needs and geography.
• Strategic sourcing execution
• Identify opportunities for savings and value creation (from contract renegotiation to full RFP).
• Lead end-to-end sourcing projects across countries, including RFI/RFQ/RFP management, supplier evaluation, and contract implementation.
• Data & analysis
• Use data to analyze demand and supply trends.
• Leverage common spend across regions through alternative sourcing approaches.
• Value delivery
• Define commercial outcomes at the start of each project, including baseline spend, cost savings targets, and efficiency gains.
• Deliver contracts that improve cost, quality, and service levels.
• Stakeholder engagement
• Build trusted partnerships with key stakeholders across AECOM globally.
• Position Strategic Sourcing as a proactive and reliable advisor.
• Supplier & process management
• Support supplier relationship management for strategic vendors, using KPIs and escalation processes to drive performance.
• Collaborate with Source-to-Pay teams to improve end-to-end processes (PO compliance, workflows, approvals, payment terms).
• Team contribution
• Share best practices and support the development of procurement capability across the global team.
• Demonstrate a high standard of delivery and commitment to continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree plus 6+ years of relevant experience in procurement, sourcing, or supply chain; or demonstrated equivalency of education and experience.
• Strong background in sourcing and procurement of services, ideally in a global or regional setting.
• Experience working in a decentralized organization with evolving procurement influence.
• Strong core sourcing skills: data analysis, opportunity assessment, requirements definition, RFI/RFQ/RFP management, negotiation, and contract drafting.
• Results-driven, strategic thinker who can balance commercial outcomes with stakeholder needs.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build relationships across cultures and functions.
• Comfortable leading sourcing projects across multiple geographies.

Additional Information

• 📌 Application Requirement
• Together with your CV, please include a short cover letter (up to 1 page) where you:
• Share your motivation and interest in this role.
• Outline your top 3 reasons why you are a strong fit for the position.
• This will help us better understand your suitability and experience related to the role.

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 ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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