Business Area Sourcing Specialist

Company Description
Do you want to lead sourcing activities and engage in product development together with Product & Range teams? Do you want to belong to and influence the result of a global market leading company in a truly global environment? If yes, this might be the perfect challenge for you! At IKEA of Sweden we develop and make the IKEA range available to stores and customers all over the world. Within the responsibilities of IKEA of Sweden lies the development, sourcing, supply and strategy of IKEAs global range.
We are looking for candidates with the aim to become Business Area Sourcing Specialists in the near future. Are you ready to join us?
Why join one of our Business Areas at IKEA of Sweden?
In the Business Area Sourcing Specialist role you will have a great opportunity to establish & develop high performing and diverse supplier base globally, cooperating with business teams across the Supply organization and together contributing towards the business goals. You will have a big responsibility to optimize our value chain that can make better products and service at lower total cost for the many people.
We truly embrace working together, we support each other and we have a truly friendly environment, so you will definitely feel welcomed. We want you to grow, so you will have a great opportunity to learn, and we also want to learn from you. You will work in an international and dynamic environment, cooperating with a lot of different colleagues from all over the world. Your work base will be in Älmhult.
Job Description
Your daily tasks will include:
• responsibility to secure supplier, supply chain and customer perspective through new products and improvements projects
• leading material selection in the new products development process, through own competence and through involving relevant competences
• securing input and preconditions from the Business Area to Category, in order for the Category to define optimal global sourcing set-up for new products and improvements on products
• responsibility to conclude business case based on global optimal sourcing set-up
• defining the optimal logistics set-up, considering both supplier and retail perspective
• based on assignment from Range & Product team, responsibility to lead deviation handling for running range
• responsibility to lead and secure the supply chain perspective of the pricing process
• contributing to IKEA offer, sourcing assignments and Product Development Processes
Qualifications
To succeed & shine in this role, we wish that you:
- have experience within related field such as Product development sourcing, Project leadership within Business or Product development or Purchasing and Business development
- have material and production knowledge (different Business Areas require different material backgrounds, meaning the fit for specific Business Area will be defined later)
- are strongly business driven and result oriented
- are proactive and take initiative to find the business set-up
- have knowledge of value chain and value chain analysis
- have the capability to lead with a holistic view, always having customer, supplier, and total cost in mind
- can lead and deliver results through own competence and involving and engaging others, independent of location
- are able to lead and contribute in projects Capability to analyze and draw conclusions from a total business perspective
- know how to perform risk assessment and scenario planning.
Additional information
Sounds interesting?
Please note that this job-posting is about building up a bank of candidates for future Business Area Sourcing Specialist vacancies that we expect in IKEA of Sweden in the near future.
If you have any questions about the position or the recruitment process, please contact Zuzana Vackova/People & Culture Recruiter at +46 721 511 246.
If you feel you could be the one we are looking for, please don't delay and send us your application in English as soon as possible, latest until July 9th 2021.
Please note that we will be interviewing continuously.