Business Area Sourcing Specialist

Do you want to lead sourcing activities and engage in product development? 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 a Business Area Sourcing Specialists. 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 influence the development of our range, cooperating with business teams across the Supply organization and together contributing towards the business goals. You will influence how we optimize our value chain and enable development of 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 friendly environment, so you will 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, Sweden.

Your daily tasks will include:
Responsibility to secure supplier, supply chain perspective in new products and improvements projects 
Secure material selection in line with Home Furnishing Business (HFB) material roadmaps, and that supplier manufacturing capabilities are considered in NEWs and Improves projects
Secure that agreed sourcing goals/deliverables, strategic movements are deployed through the development of better products
Enable collaboration across the supply chain by providing input to different stakeholders and acting on opportunities and deviations supporting the wished movements from a HFB perspective
Responsibility to secure input and preconditions from the HFB to the Category, for the Category to define optimal global sourcing set-up for NEWs and Improves
Responsibility to conclude business case based on global optimal sourcing set-up
Be the gearbox between Business Area and Category for operational or tactical discussions
Responsibility to lead and secure the supply chain perspective of the pricing process 
Contribute to HFB Portfolio Planning and input to briefing of new projects
 
To succeed & shine in this role, we wish that you:
Have experience within related field such as Product development, Sourcing or Procurement, 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) and have an understanding on cost drivers in production and materials
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
Have capability to analyze and draw conclusions from a total business perspective 
Know how to perform risk assessment and scenario planning


Sounds interesting?
If you have any questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Fredrik Sagerström, Sourcing Development Manager at Fredrik.sagerstrom@inter.ikea.com For questions about the recruitment process, please contact Christina Appelqvist, +766-113408

If you feel you could be the one, we are looking for, please send us your application (CV and cover letter) in English until December 21st 2022. We really want to get to know you, so please tell us why you would be a great fit for this role.

At IKEA we believe that we’re better when we’re physically together for collaboration, dialogues and conversations. We believe in the power of human interactions; the informal chats, the energy, belonging, and creativity generated by people being in the same place. Our approach is that we spend most of our time in the IKEA workplace and with flexibility to work from home when relevant.
Älmhult is an inspirational working environment, based on creativity and innovation, which gives you the opportunity to work and interact with people from all around the world. Älmhult has excellent commuting possibilities with hourly trains to Malmö, Lund and Växjö, and an IKEA shuttle bus running back and forth to Helsingborg two times a day.

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