Job Description

Who you are

For this role you bring 2-4 years working experience from sourcing environment and experience in developing business development roadmaps, contract management, negotiations, business analysis and project management. You have good knowledge of the legislation and regulations governing the logistics fulfilment industry.
You have knowledge in following areas:

• IKEA business model, the strategic landscape and IKEA ways of working
• Good business understanding and excellent knowledge of IKEA processes, supply chain, warehousing operations and service business leading to an excellent customer fulfilment
• Excellent knowledge of the customer and co-worker needs, demands and expectations on the markets
• Market & industry intelligence:
• Change and stakeholder management
• Supplier relationship management
• Financial competence and understanding of the financial impact on total network
• Knowledge of relevant IT solution landscapes associated with sourcing and service fulfilment.

As a person you have excellent collaborative mind-set in building relationships across the organisation and having influence and personal impact by using good communication and negotiation skills. Your respond to business and customer needs is strong and you have an end-to-end orientation and the ability to act within the global framework in order to achieve local/market/organisation goals.

What you'll be doing day to day

In this role you will contribute to creating the right prerequisites in the organisation to enable the growth agenda and secure the Group and market Customer Fulfilment agenda is translated into the Strategic Sourcing organisation.
You will be:

• Responsible for securing long term sourcing development and implementation for customer fulfilment capacities utilising blended sourcing options through driving the Fulfilment Development Process in the market.
• Responsible for responsibly driving the process for building market intelligence, for the development of blended sourcing options, for the development of a healthy pool of potential service partners and for long-term supplier relationship development in the market to secure capacity for growth and enable IKEA to be considered as a preferred partner in the market
• Responsible for securing seamless cooperation with a customer-centric, collaborative, end-to-end and process-oriented mind-set towards both market and group Functions and other relevant stakeholders
• Responsible for ensuring the right information flow and effective communication throughout the organisation and for the alignment with the Group Organisation and other business partners and stakeholders
• Responsible for leading assigned sourcing activities, projects and initiatives in the market and responsible for securing that the results meet the actual goals connected to the growth plan
• As an expert in strategic sourcing, responsible for sharing knowledge with colleagues and business partners to support their competence development
• Responsible for the implementation of the Global Sourcing Process in the market including the group legal contract package and for the management of all assigned contracts in the market securing compliance of all contractual obligations
• Contribute to the global improvement projects and the development of global and market sourcing process, ways of working, tools and working method.
• Contribute with strategic sourcing related knowledge and insights to the design and development projects of other market functions especially for Fulfilment Development and Network
• Responsible for ensuring that the Customer Fulfilment sustainability agenda is included in all aspect of the business directly connected to and influenced by Strategic Sourcing.

In this role you will report to the Fulfilment Sourcing Manager

Our team within IKEA

We’re the team behind the scenes that make the IKEA products available to the many people. As a diverse mix of co-workers we use our supply process expertise to balance range and space capacity with forecasting and ordering to provide customers with high availability while minimizing costs. If you’ve wonder who’s responsible for finding effective and efficient ways of picking up the products for our customers, that’s us. We’re passionate about working together to improve the customer experience at IKEA!