Purchasing Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead the purchasing function for a CDMX five-star hotel or hotel group: manage a purchasing and storeroom team of 4–10 professionals, own the annual procurement budget for all categories, and develop the supply chain strategy that supports the hotel's F&B program and guest experience with consistent quality, controlled cost, and CDMX-specific logistics management
• Develop the hotel's specialty supplier network in CDMX's rich food and beverage ecosystem: the CDMX luxury food importer landscape (European cheese, Japanese product, premium spirits, artisan chocolate) is the most developed in Mexico — the Purchasing Manager builds the hotel's specialty supplier portfolio directly with the importers and producers who supply the restaurant's distinctive menu identity
• Manage Central de Abasto relationships for the hotel's fresh food purchasing program: the Central de Abasto's daily operations require a purchasing team member presence for perishable buying — the Purchasing Manager develops the hotel's Central de Abasto buyer relationships (produce purveyors, fresh flower vendors, fresh fish merchants) and coordinates the daily purchasing schedule
• Execute the hotel's major supplier contract program: negotiate annual contracts for the hotel's largest cost categories, benchmark against CDMX luxury hotel competitor purchasing data, and manage the cost savings program that contributes to the hotel's EBITDA performance
• Manage the CDMX purchasing compliance program: SAT CFDI compliance for all purchasing, COFEPRIS and SEDESA food supplier certification management, and the hotel's internal three-way match purchase control
• Lead the hotel's banquet and event purchasing logistics: the CDMX five-star hotel's event business (corporate events, gala dinners, state receptions) requires purchasing at volumes and with lead times that are distinct from the daily restaurant operation — the Purchasing Manager manages the event purchasing plan from the confirmed event BEO to the delivery execution

Requirements

• Purchasing Manager experience at a CDMX luxury hotel or professional services employer
• CDMX specialty food importer and Central de Abasto relationship management
• SAT CFDI, COFEPRIS, and SEDESA compliance
• Major supplier contract negotiation at CDMX luxury hotel scale
• English and Spanish bilingual; team leadership

Benefits

• IMSS, aguinaldo, paid vacation + premium
• Transport subsidy MXN 650/month
• Staff meals
• Annual cost performance bonus
• Career development toward Director of Procurement and VP Operations

Work environment

Purchasing Manager at a CDMX five-star hotel. Full procurement function leadership with Central de Abasto fresh purchasing program, specialty importer supplier network, CDMX supply chain logistics management, and annual cost performance accountability in Mexico City's most supply-rich and professionally demanding hotel purchasing environment.

About the role

The CDMX Purchasing Manager who receives the banquet BEO for the state gala dinner for 800 covers on a Saturday in October — who has 6 working days to source the truffle and foie gras from the Polanco importer, the 80 kg of Wagyu from the Japanese product specialist in Cuauhtémoc, the floral program from the Mercado Jamaica florist collective, and the mezcal selection for the cocktail hour from the single-estate producer in Oaxaca who she has been buying from for two years — who closes the event supply plan on Wednesday with all 12 specialty suppliers confirmed and the cost inside the budget the F&B manager quoted to the client — has done the procurement management that makes the CDMX five-star hotel's most ambitious culinary event possible. The gala dinner that the event director describes as "the best we've produced in 5 years" was the purchasing plan that came together on a Wednesday.