Procurement Specialist for Category Wood in IKEA Components
Procurement Specialist for Category Wood in IKEA Components
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Job Description
At IKEA we see things a little differently. We onboard our suppliers as partners with whom we create longterm 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 factbased 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 longterm business relationship.
You will actively contribute to the development of longterm 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 startup 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.
Qualifications :
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 factbased approach to business development
- Have high selfdrive and can do attitude
- Strong business ethics and share the IKEA values
- Ability to work in remote setup
- Be fluent in English both in written and spoken
- Driving license holder.
Additional Information :
This position will be based in IKEA Industry Hultsfred.
The position requires both national and international travel (on average 810 days/month more frequent presence needed in Hultsfred in the beginning min 3 days/week). We look forward receiving your application in English at thelatest 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 .
If you have questions about the recruitment process please connect with Femina Karlsson P&C Specilist at
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
