Meeting the Customer Specialist

Are you a Foodie?
Great, then you might be the one we are looking for. We are all passionate food lovers that develop and provide delicious, desirable, safe, healthy and sustainable food for the many people around the world. No doubt food matters to people and the planet and to the IKEA business. Our Food business is a strong contributor to the IKEA brand and business growth and we have the ambition to drive positive change in the food industry.
We are on an existing journey where we, over the next years, will continue to strengthen the core of what we do developing food that is good for people and the planet. Everyday we dare to challenge ourselves and living our values and we embrace the future and face the opportunities to enable success.
One part of this journey is to move to Älmhult, to IKEA of Sweden, where the total customer offer is being developed. With the move, we want to work closer to our IKEA colleagues across the value chain and how we meet our customers every day. For example, did you know that more than 520 million guests enjoyed our food last year?
Älmhult – the heart of IKEA
This is where our culture and values were shaped and still develop. It is a melting pot of many different nationalities and cultures. Beside the IKEA Museum, IKEA Hotell, the IKEA store and many other places to learn and meet, there is Aktivitetshuset, which is a meeting place and spare time facility with lots of possibilities for IKEA co-workers and their families. If you choose to commute to Älmhult, this is not a problem because the office is a stone's throw from the train station, and the shuttle buses to Helsingborg leave right outside IKEA of Sweden
As RA (Range Area) Meeting the Customer Specialist you ensure that the sales related requirements for a successful meeting with the customer are incorporated within the development of a defined business for both NEWs and running range.
Your main responsibilities are to lead the commercial contribution for new range development into the development/project teams. You will also be responsible to lead the collaboration and market input to secure the commercial requirements for the defined business. As well as the content of the Meeting the Customer components in the projects including easy buying easy selling, pricing, business case and being responsible for value-based pricing for respective RA.
In the IKEA Food businesses, you also work closely together with our retail markets to secure that selling processes and tools are implemented according to our standards. As well as close co-operation together with CBF/Operations to secure the operational parts of easy buying, easy selling in the range development.
Among other tasks, you are also responsible for:
competitive price market input to set the recommended sales prices, and the follow-up of pricing KPIs.
defining the needs and requirements for range related buying tools to support the buying processes.
range and product knowledge and contributing to the development of range and product communication by identifying the need and setting the requirements for an easy buying and selling process.
be responsible for Range and product knowledge content related to easy buying and selling to retail partners.
securing that the selling requirements of the IKEA retail system are met within defined range offer



Qualifications
We are looking for you who have great interest for business and a capability to focus on a defined business area while maintaining a holistic perspective of cross business needs, opportunities and the areas impact on total IKEA.
You have a retail background where you have gained good knowledge in the market and competitor landscape of business that you are accountable for. Your knowledge in the year cycle for the sales processes, retail environment and how the offer meets the customer in different touch points is very good.
You are a good team player and have capability to influence stakeholders in order achieve the common goal.
Capability to bring data, information and knowledge to understanding and transform it into insights within the scope of the assignment.
Fluent in English, both spoken and written.
Additional Information
Does this sound like your next challenge? We are curious to get to know you so warm welcome with your application – CV and letter of motivation-in English. Please note that we will review applications as they come through so do not delay, send in your application today!