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Permanent – 37.5 Hours per week

We have a fantastic opportunity for an Assistant Buyer to join our team within Lovell’s London regional office at Farringdon, with occasional home working.

You’ll be responsible for supporting the procurement team with day to day planned order placement, checking quantities and analysing quotations, whilst liaising with project teams and suppliers to track deliveries of ad-hoc purchases of material and plant requirements. In addition to undertaking administrative duties, order updates and tracking flow of invoices with the procurement team, you’ll assist with compliance of the audit process, supplier scoring, order process and invoice resolution.

To be successful in this role, candidates will have good communication skills, good knowledge of Microsoft applications, be organised, willing to learn and want to progress within the business.Applicants must be a team player, personable, confident and flexible.

Previous experience of working within the new build housing sector and knowledge of construction industry materials is essential.

Benefits

• Discretionary Bonus entitlement based on performance KPIs
• Holidays - 26 days
• Life Assurance
• Pension
• Single cover Private medical insurance
• Ability to purchase additional holiday
• Access to discount portal
• Cycle to Work scheme and the Lovell Way to EV
• Digital GP
• Employee assistance programme
• Sharesave scheme

As an Investors in People Gold award employer, Lovell is the UK’s leading provider of mixed tenure affordable homes and has a reputation for innovation and excellence in the delivery of high-quality housing developments and regeneration projects.

We are committed to enhancing the communities in which we work, building quality homes for real people and looking after our own people; developing talent is key to achieving this. We understand that the success of our organisation comes from the strengths, skills and personalities of our people. Lovell is an equal opportunities employer who encourage and value diversity and inclusion within our teams.

The Lovell culture is one that has been successful for many years. It is based on empowering colleagues to make decisions at a regional and local level, and to challenge the status quo whilst working as one to achieve our goals and make Lovell a great place to work for all.