Electronic Buyer

**Date**:Jun 6, 2023

**Location**: Peschiera del Garda

**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 Home Solutions division is the world’s leading provider of smart systems for domestic kitchens. Drawing on a long history of reliability and expertise, we help our partners enhance their businesses and provide outstanding kitchen and cooking experiences to our consumers by offering complete solutions for food preparation and cooking.

**About the job**:

- Franke buys annually electronic components worth around 20M CHF, primarily for the hood, appliances and coffee machine production.
- The ‘Electronic Components Strategic Buyer” is responsible to:
- analyze component costs and trends (including raw material development)
- assess possible volume bundling and supplier consolidation
- better exploit Franke’s negotiation position in order to achieve signif icant cost benef it
- improve supplier service level, standardize prices, payment and logistic terms
- negotiate, formalize and maintain supply partner agreements
- support Complexity reduction program through a standardization process within Franke

**Your tasks**:
**Essential Duties**
- Manage supply chain requirements by consolidating Franke demand requirements
- Consolidate supply chain and manage the demand forecast to the supply base
- Determine volume supply share for commodities suppliers
- Guarantee supply availability
- Build a procurement network where local companies and colleagues play an important role together with the Central purchasing
- Material Productivity action plan
- Establish cooperation between specif ier (Marketing & Innovation), and purchasing involving Quality and SCM

**Responsibilities & Competencies**
- Consolidate supplier landscape
- Move the “commodity” components f rom European suppliers to low cost suppliers
- Negotiate new supplier agreements
- Rationalize and standardize product ranges within Franke
- Implement procurement strategy and policies
- Monitor and follow up the implementation of the agreements in the various plants

**Requirements**:

- ~3 years within Purchasing/Supply Chain environment area
- Preferred global/international business experience
- Technical knowledge in electronics and electromechanics
- Knowledge of cable and assembly supply market
- At least 3 years' experience in the role
- Good written and spoken English
- Problem solving and team-work skills
- Strong interpersonal relationship skills
- Analytical skills and excellent organizational skills

**What we offer you**:

- Join our dynamic, international scale-up company as we blaze new trails and shape the future
- As part of our talented and passionate team, you'll have the opportunity to learn from the best and grow your career
- With our commitment to training and development, the Franke Academy supports you in charting your own path
- With our focus on well-being, you'll enjoy flexible and balanced remote working conditions

**Contact details**:
On behalf Franke:
Filippo Puglisi Maraja

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