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 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 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, 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 taken into account in NEWs and Improves projects
• Secure that agreed sourcing goals/deliverables, strategic movements are deployed in reality 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, in order 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
• Contribute or take ownership for Supply Chain Collaboration activities

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?
Please note that this job-posting is about building up a bank of candidates for future Business Area Sourcing Specialist permanent vacancies that we expect in IKEA of Sweden in the near future. 

If you have any questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Mårten Wennersten, Sourcing Development Manager at [email protected]. For questions about the recruitment process, please contact Zuzana Vackova, People & Culture Recruiter at [email protected].

If you feel you could be the one we are looking for, please send us your application (CV and cover letter) in English until 4th September. 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.