IT Purchasing Coordinator


New Zealand Steel, a wholly owned subsidiary of BlueScope, manufactures and markets a range of flat rolled steel products for the building, construction, manufacturing and agricultural sectors.  You may know us for our flagship COLORSTEEL® brand.

About the Role

We are looking for an organised and detail-focused IT Purchasing Coordinator to join our team on a six-month fixed-term basis.

In this busy coordination role, you will support the end-to-end purchasing process, ensuring goods and services are ordered, received and processed accurately and on time. You will work closely with suppliers, Stores, Finance, internal requestors and other stakeholders to resolve purchasing, delivery and invoice queries.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Managing purchase requests, supplier quotations, vendor information and purchase order creation or amendments 
  • Ensuring purchasing activities meet company procurement policies and approval requirements 
  • Monitoring outstanding purchase orders and coordinating with suppliers and internal stakeholders 
  • Maintaining accurate supplier and contractor records in SAP 
  • Processing supplier and contractor invoices and supporting invoice matching 
  • Investigating discrepancies between purchase orders, goods receipts and invoices 
  • Processing Goods Receipts in SAP 
  • Tracking deliveries and communicating order progress and completion status 
  • Resolving purchasing, delivery, receipt, invoice and payment queries

What you will bring 

  • Previous experience in purchasing, procurement administration, accounts payable or a related coordination role 
  • Working knowledge of SAP or a similar ERP system 
  • An understanding of purchase orders, goods receipts, supplier management and invoice administration 
  • Strong organisational skills and excellent attention to detail 
  • Confident communication and stakeholder-management skills 
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel 
  • The ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines

Why this opportunity 

This six-month fixed-term opportunity will give you the chance to contribute to an important purchasing function, work with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, and use your SAP, procurement and administration experience in a busy operational environment.

If you are an organised and proactive coordinator who enjoys keeping purchasing processes moving and solving problems, we would like to hear from you.

What we can offer

Being part of the BlueScope brand makes us a strong and successful global company offering connections throughout the world and providing access to resources and tools from the wider business. We believe our people are our strength and embrace diversity and inclusion as we aim to have the right people in the right roles to move us into the future. 

We have opportunities for learning and development, unique work location, onsite medical centre, free parking, an excellent remuneration package and a supportive team environment.

Does this sound like the next step in your career? Click ‘Apply’ now!

If you encounter any accessibility barriers to our standard recruitment process, please reach out to NZSRecruitment@bluescopesteel.com so they can support you to participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.

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Fixed term / Temporary

Job no: 8745

Location: Glenbrook

Closing Date: Tuesday 17 November