Business Area Sourcing Specialist

Business Area Sourcing Specialist
Älmhult, Sweden
Full-time

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.
Job Description
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.
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
This position is based in Älmhult, Sweden.
If you have any questions about the position, please contact the Hiring Manager Marcus Ohlsson marcus.ohlsson@inter.ikea.com. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact People and Culture Recruiter Zuzana Vackova, zuzana.vackova1@inter.ikea.com
Please submit both your CV and motivation letter in English latest by 17th January 2022 and tell us why you would be a good fit.