Job ID: 231316

Date posted: 22/04/2024
Why we will love you

You have the desire to find new opportunities to improve business and have the capability to communicate the vision, influence the decisions and secure the deployment of business cases. You are entrepreneurial, have strong drive and fact-based business capabilities supports you making the right decisions. You have deep understanding about cost drivers and how they impact the total value chain. You do that by leading your area of responsibility with a holistic view, always acting with the Customer, Supplier, and total IKEA in mind.

You have an eagerness to build trust and partnership with suppliers, stakeholders, colleagues and within Ingka Procurement. You identify very much with our values and enjoy creating an environment where the IKEA values are a strong and living reality.

- Minimum of 3-5 years purchase experience in logistics & equipment

- A university degree in business administration, engineering or corresponding experience

- Fluency in spoken and written English

- Stakeholder and supplier management experience

- Project Management experience

Job Type: Permanant, full-time salaried
Pay: The Salary range for this position is $83,203 to $120,998
Location: This position is a hybrid role that reports to our IKEA Offices in Conshohocken, PA three days a week, two days remote. There is no relocation offered with this role.
Benefits Eligible: Yes

What you'll be doing day to day

As a Category Purchaser you will have the full responsibility for securing the Group Procurement purchase from end-to-end perspective in the area of warehousing automation for IKEA's logistics operations.
You will be responsible for building long term partnerships with key Suppliers and create trustful relationships with Stakeholders to identify business needs.
You will be responsible for securing the Procurement deliverables in omnichannel projects, supplier management, supplier performance and delivering results based on Ingka and Category strategies.
In projects and in the daily operations you will work actively across multiple business functions to facilitate and support the overarching objective of optimizing the total value contribution from Ingka's automation investments.
You will actively monitor the external market conditions to find new business opportunities within your subsegment.

Together as a Team

We don't want to brag, but in our team, we're born negotiators. Together we source the world for suppliers for everything from raw materials for products to ink for the printer. Our mission is to maximize what suppliers can provide at the lowest possible prices while assuring safe and sustainable sourcing at all times. Most importantly: we build mutually beneficial partnerships for the long term. There's nothing better than a great deal where everyone wins!