Permanent – 37.5 Hours

As a growing business with a significant forward order book of social housing and mixture tenure developments, a fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Divisional Procurement Manager to further strengthen our central purchasing function.

Reporting to the Head of Procurement & Sustainability, your focus will be on delivering competitive advantage through our supply chain relationships, strategies, and processes. You’ll assist in specific development work, identifying and implementing improved practice and procedure, training of purchasing staff, roll out of additional COINS modules, as well as R&D, and develop and implement an effective periodic audit of the procurement function. You will manage specific supply chain sectors and deliver competitive advantage, through cost, social value, and sustainability, and work alongside the Divisional Technical Team on meeting the challenges of upcoming changes to the Building Regulations.

So, if you hold a CIPS qualification (or have the equivalent industry experience) and have an in-depth knowledge and experience of the UK housebuilding industry and supply chain, then we want to hear from you! We’re also keen to hear from you if you have a strong grasp of technical requirements, great negotiation skills and the ability to influence procurement across a national business!

You will need to be able to demonstrate good organisation skills as well as excellent verbal and written communication abilities – these are essential for this role. Being able to effectively engage both stakeholders and supply chain is an absolute must. It would also be really helpful if you’ve had some exposure to COINS and have some knowledge and understanding of sub-contract/material orders and the management of the buying process.

Benefits

• Holidays - 26 days
• Life Assurance
• Pension
• 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 development 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.