Sourcing Developer, IKEA Service Office

About the job:

Contribute to the day-to-day work and development of the fulfilment sourcing organization within the market with a customer-centric and collaborative approach in focus.

Contribute to creating the right prerequisites in the organization to enable the growth agenda and secure the Group and market Customer Fulfilment agenda is translated into the Fulfillment Sourcing organization.

You will:

•             Be in charge of 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 on the market to secure short-, mid-, and long-term capacity for growth and enable IKEA to be considered as a preferred partner in the market

•             Responsible for securing long term sourcing development and implementation for customer fulfilment capacities at lowest cost utilizing blended sourcing options through driving the Fulfilment Development Process 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 organization and for the alignment with the Group Organization and other business partners and stakeholders on relevant topics.

•             Responsible for leading assigned sourcing activities, purchase execution 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, particularly the understanding of the principles of effective and efficient strategic sourcing on the market

•             Responsible for the implementation of the Group 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 methods.

•             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.

Who you are

•             University degree in economics, business administration or relevant working experience in strategic sourcing

•             2 - 4 years working experience in sourcing environment (strategic sourcing preferred)

•             Experienced in developing business development roadmaps, contract management, negotiations, business analysis and project management.

•             Good knowledge of the legislations and regulations governing the logistics fulfilment industry.

•             Applying strategic, tactical and operational approach for analyzing business opportunities from customer/market perspective and inspired by challenging situations

•             Proven leadership capabilities and flexibility to work with different stakeholders, countries or global organizations

•             Self-reliant and motivated with a proven ability to work as part of a team as well as independently, working in a changing environment

•             Eagerness and self-drive to develop constantly and demonstrate a willingness to develop skills and effective ways of working to benefit IKEA and personal growth

•             Fluent in English both written and verbal

IKEA South East Europe is an exciting and empowering region with great growth agenda in all countries – Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Ukraine. We currently operate 6 stores and we will open 1 new one in the upcoming period.

We strongly encourage and warmly welcome applications of people of all cultures, backgrounds and experiences because we believe that diversity in IKEA makes us stronger.