Local Buyer

**Date**:Sep 26, 2025

**Location**: San Luis Potosì, SLP

**Company**:franke

**About Franke**:
We, the Franke company with its three divisions, are a world's leading supplier of products and services for domestic kitchens, the professional foodservice systems and the convenience store sector as well as for professional coffee making. With around 60 companies, we are at home on five continents. Over 8,000 employees constantly take on new perspectives to identify opportunities and turn them into inspiring, innovative solutions for tomorrow’s demands.

The Franke Foodservice Systems division is a world-leading supplier of kitchen facilities, equipment and supplies solutions. As a full system manufacturer, distributor and program management partner, we supply global chains in the quick-service restaurant, convenience store and supermarket segments, helping to manage unit growth and upgrade their facilities.

**About the job**:
**Procurement/ Buyer (Food Services)**, who represents both the face of procurement for the Business, and the face of the Business for Procurement. He/she is the key Procurement Business Partner to the local entity for the assigned spend and categories. He/she provides procurement service and secures Procurement’s support to the local business strategy and performance.

He/she is accountable for the implementation of the central and local procurement strategies for the assigned spend and categories. He/she ensures proper deployment of procurement practices, policies and projects, creating a competitive advantage for Franke at a minimum risk to the business. At the same time, he/she is the voice of the customer towards the central organization regarding what support is required from Procurement in order to best support the business success.

The Buyer is reporting to the Procurement Cluster Lead within the Division and is instrumental in driving alignment through stakeholder groups and across distinct spend and categories for the respective locations.

Responsible for purchasing and negotiating direct and indirect materials, equipment, services and supplies from vendors for the company. Evaluates vendor quotes and services to determine most desirable suppliers.

**Your tasks**:

- Category Management_
- Understands division business strategy and objectives and translate into procurement requirements
- Cascades-down categories long term strategies and implications for the local business stakeholders
- Challenges the Central Category Manager to ensure that their contribution impacts positively the local business while keeping the global strategy in mind
- _Operations_
- Works with business and category leaders to support identification and prioritization of specific local initiatives
- Ensures execution of Procurement tasks against agreed-upon objectives
- In charge of the reporting for his/her local assigned spend and categories. Ensure numbers accuracy and availability of data
- Assures compliances to standards and adaption of ways of working
- Contract Implementation and management for locally concluded contracts
- Supplier Relationship Management_
- Manages and shares local evaluation on key contract and strategic direct and indirect suppliers’ performance
- Consolidates and feeds the categories with relevant information on suppliers
- Business Partnering_
- Acts as a Procurement Business Partner; is “the face of procurement” for the local business and the other way around to the central organization. He/she ensures business requirements are met and internal clients are satisfied. He/ she is covering the assigned spend and categories of the local business, direct and/ or indirect.
- Provides value creation ideas and projects, including innovation, sustainability, risk management, and cost
- Manages and influences local top management towards effective Procurement integration and alignment with the business
- Leadership_
- Manages escalation process with direct category management or Procurement leadership when required
- Removes existing barriers to enable more effective delivery of innovation, new suppliers and new materials

**Requirements**:
**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**:

- Ability to work with uncertainties
- Business accumen
- At ease with conflicting interests
- Action oriented. Quick problem solver
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to think strategically and to work with complex data

**EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE**
- Education in Business Administration or Technical background
- Procurement and/ or Supply Chain Management experience
- Good knowledge in English. Other languages a plus
- ERP background - SAP
- 3 - 5 years within Procurement
- Ideally worked in a Matrix environment
- International business experience desired
- Ability to travel occasionally

**What we offer you**:
Competitive salary and comprehency salary

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