Global Category Purchaser – Consultancy & Advisory Services – Group Procurement

Candidate profile (title) Who you are

Candidate profile (text) – Default language If you see yourself in a role where you are in the driving seat for better procurement, then please keep on reading!

We are looking for a strategic Purchaser for Consultancy & Advisory Services.

Our category is responsible for the sourcing of management consultancy, tax & legal, auditing and translation services.

To succeed in this role, we believe that you have a strategic mindset with a good understanding of driving business on a global level with multiple stakeholders. You are a natural leader with excellent communication skills. It comes natural to you to build and maintain good relationships with both colleagues and business contacts. You have an investigative mind-set with an openness to change, looking for new possibilities, challenging and improving ways of working. You are a quick learner, have analytical skills and pay attention to details.

Furthermore, we believe that you have knowledge/experience in all or some of below topics:

• Indirect Procurement
• Category Management
• Sourcing & negotiations
• Supplier Management
• Project Management
• Business Analytics and financial acumen
• Experience from the industry of Advisory Services
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal.
• Industry experience of Advisory services.

Of course, you always have the IKEA values at heart and act as a true ambassador in everything you do and decide.

We welcome the diversity of thought, background, and culture in our team, to make great ideas a reality.

Key responsibilities (title) Your responsibilities

Key responsibilities (text) You will be the primary commercial interface towards global suppliers and help to develop category strategies to support the Ingka Group on a global basis as well as supporting the implementation of the Category Plan. You will also be responsible to drive large-scale global procurement initiatives, which include supplier selections, commercial negotiations and building supplier relationships where you, together with the Ingka team, will secure the best buy for Ingka Group.

An important part of your role is to build trustful relations with the business partners and together you will continuously seek for improvements and develop the business. You will be responsible for driving the implementation of strategies by following the procurement process. Further you will secure governance of strategic supplier relationships, challenge supplier to constantly improve all aspects of supplier performance, secure compliance and ensure that the suppliers are complying with our sustainability directives and IKEA code of conduct.

Team vision ( title) About this work area

Team vision (text) Ingka Procurement is one of Ingka Group’s functions. Our ambition is to develop meaningful and better procurement! We bring IKEA into the lives of the many people in more than 30 countries around the world. Together with colleagues worldwide, we work to identify and understand all kinds of needs related to IKEA operations. Together with our suppliers, we meet those needs innovatively, cost-effectively and with sustainability built in from the start.

Consultancy & Advisory Services is one of the three categories within Category Area Professional Services. Other categories are Financial & Insurance Services, and HR Services.

Each category is responsible for the entire Source-to-Pay process and for the supplier management and contract maintenance. All categories work both globally and locally.

This is a permanent position, based in Malmö, Sweden and you will report to Category Manager, Nina Dohlmann.

Let’s connect Questions and support? Let’s connect!

Let´s connect If you have questions regarding the recruitment process, please get in touch with Recruiter Alexandra Boyd at alexandra.boyd@ingka.ikea.com.

If you have job-specific questions, please contact the hiring manager David Styrborn at david.styrborn@ingka.ikea.com.

We look forward to receiving your application as soon as possible, but please no later than August, 22.

In this recruitment there is no relocation support provided by IKEA, hence we’re looking for people already living in the mentioned location or with commuting distance.

Please kindly note that we only accept applications coming through IKEA’s job portal. This is due to GDPR.

We are looking forward receiving your application (CV and a motivational letter in English).

Warmly welcome!

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