Procurement Administrator
| Posting date: | 22 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive Salary + Excellent Benefits |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 September 2025 |
| Location: | Tamworth, Staffordshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Blue Octopus Recruitment Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | LOVL195185 |
Summary
Permanent – Full Time – 37.5 hours
As a growing business with a significant forward order book for social housing & mixed tenure developments, we have a fantastic opportunity for a Procurement Administrator to support the central purchasing function here at Lovell.
As our Procurement Administrator, you’ll gather and record data from our regional business units and supply chain, in Excel or other 3rdparty portals and provide reports from our internal systems. Maintaining our trading agreement portfolio, you’ll raise simple orders on our COINS platform as well as providing effective support to the department keeping agreements, records and logs updated.
In addition, you will produce standard letters and agreements for the department along with other administrative tasks as required
We’d like our Procurement Administrator to have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be familiar with MS Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint. Experience in the provision of reports from COINS / ENGAGE and other portals would be beneficial.
Previous experience of working in a Procurement function is desirable but not essential, as full training will be provided.
Benefits
Bonus entitlement based on performance KPIs
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.
Please refer to the Job Description upon completing your application.
As a growing business with a significant forward order book for social housing & mixed tenure developments, we have a fantastic opportunity for a Procurement Administrator to support the central purchasing function here at Lovell.
As our Procurement Administrator, you’ll gather and record data from our regional business units and supply chain, in Excel or other 3rdparty portals and provide reports from our internal systems. Maintaining our trading agreement portfolio, you’ll raise simple orders on our COINS platform as well as providing effective support to the department keeping agreements, records and logs updated.
In addition, you will produce standard letters and agreements for the department along with other administrative tasks as required
We’d like our Procurement Administrator to have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be familiar with MS Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint. Experience in the provision of reports from COINS / ENGAGE and other portals would be beneficial.
Previous experience of working in a Procurement function is desirable but not essential, as full training will be provided.
Benefits
Bonus entitlement based on performance KPIs
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.
Please refer to the Job Description upon completing your application.