IT Purchasing Coordinator

NZ Steel; Waikato; On-site; NZD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

New Zealand Steel Limited is seeking an organised IT Purchasing Coordinator on a six-month fixed-term basis in Waikato. You will support end-to-end purchasing, ensuring orders are created, received and processed accurately, liaising with suppliers, Stores, Finance and internal requestors.

The role requires experience in purchasing, SAP or similar ERP, PO processes, and strong attention to detail. You will manage supplier records, invoices, and help resolve queries while maintaining timelines.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in purchasing, procurement administration or related coordination roles.
• Working knowledge of SAP or a similar ERP system.
• 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 Excel.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Manage purchase requests, supplier quotations, vendor information and purchase order creation or amendments.
• Ensure purchasing activities meet company procurement policies and approval requirements.
• Monitor outstanding purchase orders and coordinate with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate supplier and contractor records in SAP.
• Process supplier and contractor invoices and support invoice matching.
• Investigate discrepancies between purchase orders, goods receipts and invoices.
• Process Goods Receipts in SAP.
• Track deliveries and communicate order progress and completion status.
• Resolve purchasing, delivery, receipt, invoice and payment queries.

Skills

Purchasing coordination

ERP SAP

Purchase orders

Goods receipts

Supplier management

Attention to detail

Stakeholder management

Excel

Time management

Tools

SAP

Job description

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.

If you encounter any accessibility barriers to our standard recruitment process, please reach out to [e-mail] so they can support you to participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.