Procurement Specialist for Category Wood in IKEA Components
2 weeks ago
Company Description
One brand, many companies, and many, many people – that's us in a nutshell. Spread all over the world, we have a passion for home furnishing and an inspiring shared vision: to create a better everyday life for the many people. This, together with our straightforward business idea, shared values, and a culture based on the spirit of togetherness, guides us in everything we do.
To offer a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low, that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. To meet the needs of our customers we have a unique business model and value chain. It includes product development, design, supply, manufacture and sales. And of course, it starts and ends with our customers.
IKEA Components holds a unique position within the IKEA value chain. We develop and supply IKEA with customer friendly component solutions for better products – and better homes. This includes a responsibility for selected components and raw-material, which means develop, purchase and supply to IKEA suppliers. Our business is global and based in locations all over the world.
Job DescriptionAt IKEA, we see things a little differently. We onboard our suppliers as partners with whom we create long-term relationships. We want them to grow with us, become more efficient and achieve affordable sustainability.
We are looking for you with a passion for developing our business together with our business and production partners. You enjoy entrepreneurial thinking and you have a drive and energy in identifying business opportunities of how to grow the business, take away unnecessary costs and decrease purchasing prices by fact-based analysis and negotiations. You are interested in manufacturing and how things can be done differently to achieve a better price.
In accordance with business plan, the Procurement specialist develops and implements the supplier base for recycled wood, delivering excellent performance in running operations and building professional long-term business relationships.
You will actively contribute to the development of long-term Category Business Plans. The objective is to deliver excellent results in sourcing of raw wood, residuals and recycled wood for IKEA Industry Board Mill located in Sweden.
Your tasks will include:
- Be overall business responsible for supplier performance (Price Development, Quality, Logistic, Sustainability) and the business relationship
- Identify and start-up new suppliers for recycled wood segment
- Close cooperation with IKEA Industry Units mainly within Manufacturing Area Boards
- Secure compliance to IKEA agreed working methods.
- Responsible to lower total cost at suppliers through optimizing the value chain, working with the Supplier development process and creating strong action plans together with the suppliers.
Your knowledge, skills and experience include:
- Min 5 years' experience in Wood Waste Management Business
- High expertise of Recycled Wood Supply Chain
- Deep knowledge of recycled wood Market in Nordic Region, its key players, dependencies, challenges and opportunities
- Understanding of Value chain analysis, supplier development process and cost breakdown analysis
- High level capability to build trust, effective relations, partnerships with business partners
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Good analytical skills / excel proficiency
- Strong negotiation skills
- Structured and fact-based approach to business development
- Have high self-drive and can do attitude
- Strong business ethics and share the IKEA values
- Ability to work in remote set-up
- Be fluent in English, both in written and spoken
- Driving license holder.
This position will be based in IKEA Industry Hultsfred.
The position requires both national and international travel (on average 8-10 days/month, more frequent presence needed in Hultsfred in the beginning min 3 days/week). We look forward receiving your application in English at the latest April 21, 2025. Please see we will be interviewing continuously so send in your application soonest
If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact hiring manager Jan Linhart at jan.linhart@inter.ikea.com.
If you have questions about the recruitment process, please connect with Femina Karlsson P&C Specialist at femina.ladhani.karlsson@inter.ikea.com.
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Hultsfred Municipality, Sweden Inter IKEA Systems B.V. Full timeProcurement Specialist for Category Wood in IKEA ComponentsFull-timeOne brand, many companies, and many, many people – that's us in a nutshell. Spread all over the world, we have a passion for home furnishing and an inspiring shared vision: to create a better everyday life for the many people. This, together with our straightforward business idea, shared...
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