What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sourcing & Procurement Specialist / Business Developer - Purchase Development - Category Area Food position at Inter IKEA Group?
Job Description
Job Description
Company Description
Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. We do this by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing and food products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them.
IKEA Supply is responsible for securing that the product offer is produced and delivered to our customers. We lead the supply agenda across many functions and work together with all business areas, different business units, but also retail markets to secure customer availability in all markets and sales channels at lowest total cost.
IKEA operates restaurants in more than 460 stores across more than 50 markets. Every year, our restaurants, bistro, and Swedish Food Market attract over 500 million guests with our iconic products. In this position you will support in sourcing for North and South America.
Job Description
About the job
As a Business Developer, you will be an informal leader of a 3-member micro-team. With a Production Engineer, who takes care of the production process and food quality, and a Supply Planner who handles logistics. Based on the analysis, you will develop and implement common action plans with your suppliers and partners, delivering excellent performance in running operations and building professional long term business development. You will be tasked to reduce costs, to develop better design for our customers, and identify new purchasing possibilities all within the framework of sustainability and ethical business practices.
About the assignment
Being a Business Developer, you will be overall responsible for supplier performance and relationships. Among other things, you are :
- Responsible for building professional and long-term relationships through IKEA way of doing business, based on a shared business model, trust, and transparency.
- Professionally challenge suppliers to constantly improve all aspects of supplier performance according to supplier action plan.
- Lead supplier development projects to create and implement action plans together with suppliers which delivers to Category Business Plan.
- Secure the analysis, leading to conclusions and making things happen
- Responsible for lowering total cost at the supplier level through optimizing value chain.
- Partner with suppliers to continuously increase the competitiveness through new purchasing possibilities such as new technology, new material and / or production techniques.
- Lead the business agenda by involving and engaging competence needed such as logistics, quality, manufacturing and sustainability.
- In addition to the Business Development role, you will also be responsible to secure compliance to IKEA Purchasing Manual and other agreed working methods, product documentation and social & quality compliances.
Qualifications
About you
You are able to establish and develop high performing and diverse supplier base which can meet the needs of our business and customers. You have a high interest in understanding the markets we are working in, as well as the reality of production. Additionally, we believe you should have :
Additional Information
At IKEA, we value diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are committed to providing coworkers with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We encourage individualism and invite you to come join our team and be yourself with us!
We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristic protected by law. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need.
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