Buyer
6 months ago
**Buyer**
**Salary: £24,000 - £27,000**
**Location: Ealing or Staines office base with hybrid working.**
**Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week**
**About us**
We’re a UK housing association committed to a new vision - providing homes people love to live in.
With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable and private rent, specialist housing services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.
Our 70,000 customers have diverse backgrounds and levels of income and we’re here to provide all of them with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable. And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit we make is reinvested into our charitable social purpose - delivering more homes and better services for customers.
We’re also members of the G15, a group of leading housing associations that work together to house one in ten Londoners and tackle the housing crisis.
**Role Overview**
We are looking for a **Buyer** to join our fantastic Procurement team. As a Buyer, you will join a growing team of skilled individuals, reporting into the Strategic Procurement Department but representing various parts of the organization. This role will be tasked with strengthening the group’s procurement functions, through a consistent and efficient approach, in line with A2Dominion Group Procurement Policy and other applicable procedures.
**Key responsibilities**:
- Purchase goods, materials, components, or services in line with agreed cost, quality, and delivery criteria
- Manage the onboarding process for new suppliers ensuring that the process is compliant with internal procedures and due diligence has been appropriately completed
- Ensure that suppliers’ compliance certificates and documents (e.g. insurance certification) is up to date within the P2P system
- Complete requisitions, via the P2P system, from the business areas so that they are translated into purchase orders that are compliant with internal procurement policy and procedures
- Raise and process purchase orders for the contracted supply of goods and services, via the P2P system, ensuring that the orders are costed to the appropriate budgets, and approved in a timely manner
- Liaise with the business areas to ensure that purchase orders are appropriately updated for the timely payment of related invoices
- Monitor invoice payments so that suppliers are paid in line with agreed terms, and to ensure that key accounts are kept in balance
- Carry out request quotations (RfQ) on behalf of their respective business functions, in-line with internal procurement policy and procedures
- Be an integral part of the relationship with A2D’s suppliers, acting as a first point of contact for order and payment queries and being an interface between the supplier and business areas to establish good working relationships
**More about you**
- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Maths and English (Grades A*- C)
- Have experience in purchasing goods and services and/or an understanding of the Procurement cycle
- Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and meet variable deadlines, with high attention to detail and a methodical approach to their work
- Excellent communication skills to enable the development relationships both internally and externally
**Choosing us is easy**
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
- 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
- Up to 8% contributory pension
- Flexible working
- Investment in your learning and development.
In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.
We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.
Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people’s lives.
**A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will**:
- actively look to attract and recruit disabled people
- provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process
- offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job
- be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job
- make reasonable adjustments as required
**Meeting the role requirements**
**A2Dominion is proud to be a family friendly employer**
Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know th
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