Purchasing Assistant - Remote

Job Title: Purchasing Assistant - Remote

Location: Remote (Australia)

Salary: $60,000-$70,000 pa

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Contract: Full-time, permanent

Sunshine Building Supply is a small distributor with one warehouse and 17 employees. Customers can pick up or get delivery on our own trucks.

Overview:

This role mixes day-to-day purchasing with sourcing projects, including RFQs and supplier changes. You can work from home anywhere in Australia. We have no office requirement. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Duties:

• Negotiate pricing, lead times and payment terms with suppliers
• Resolve invoice and receiving discrepancies with accounts payable
• Maintain supplier records, price agreements and contracts
• Identify cost savings and report them monthly
• Track supplier performance on delivery, quality and cost
• Review supplier price increase requests against commodity indexes
• Issue purchase orders from approved requisitions and MRP signals in SAP

Who you are:

• 1+ years of purchasing or procurement experience
• Advanced Excel for bid comparisons and spend analysis
• Organised with dozens of open orders at a time
• Comfortable pushing suppliers on dates and price
• Working knowledge of contracts, Incoterms and payment terms
• Occasional travel to supplier sites

Perks and benefits:

• Superannuation on top of salary
• 17.5% leave loading
• Employee assistance program
• Above-award pay rates

Shortlisting will begin immediately.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Sunshine Building Supply.