Työpaikan tunnus: 261701

Julkaisupäivämäärä: 03/12/2024

Why we will love you

As an Operations Development Specialist, you will guide in implementing, and continuously improving our end-to-end operations procurement ways of working. Your mission is to drive efficiency, simplicity, standardization, optimization, compliance, and automation, always with user-friendliness in mind.

You will cultivate and maintain strong, trustworthy relationships with key stakeholders, including group functions, categories, countries and Global Business Operations (GBO). Your collaborative approach will ensure seamless operations, enhanced performance, and user-friendly procurement experiences.

Your guidance will be pivotal in enabling content enablement and buying instructions, ensuring that daily operations run smoothly and are continuously improved and optimized. Through your proactive initiatives, you will elevate our operational procurement ways of working to new heights of excellence.

The person we are looking for:

• Experience working in supplier management/procurement with a focus on supplier and content enablement.
• Experience in working in different systems and procurement tools like SAP Ariba, SAP R3 or S4Hana.
• Strong drive, proven problem-solving, analytical-, communication-, and networking skills
• Look for new possibilities and improve ways of working come naturally.
• Collaborate, build, and maintain trustworthy long-term relations.
• Take responsibility and initiative within the area of scope.
• Multi-task, prioritize, and meet deadlines.
• Open-minded and adapt to a fast-changing environment.
• Strong drive, self-motivated problem solver who knows how to get things done.
• Communicate in a clear, straightforward manner.

Your responsibilities

•Adapt to changing environment and drive procurement operations consistency and efficiency, by challenging existing ways of working, initiating continuous improvement, and contributing with procurement operations specialist knowledge in end-to-end initiatives and projects.

• Guide Category & Country Procurement throughout the E2E procurement operations WoW, based on deep subject knowledge and skills, with main focus to make products and services available in a compliant, controlled, automated, standardized & user-friendly way.

•Build trust, collaborate, and maintain strong cross-functional long-term relationships with key stakeholders.

•Guide and support categories and countries in buying channels, content enablement, category tree, and category cards on supplier-base optimization opportunities and efficient buying channels, with the highest level of automation, control, compliance, and user-friendliness.

•Drive content enablement and make products and services available in Ingka e-procurement ordering tool and ensure critical activities are performed according to rules and policies.

•Drive content enablement and quality, maintenance, and improvements in buying instructions, Ingka e-procurement ordering tool, and vendor master data.

Together as a team

Hej! We are Ingka Procurement, part of Ingka Group. We bring IKEA into the lives of the many people in more than 30 countries around the world. As IKEA grows it will be increasingly important that we have a way of sourcing and supplying that is fit to grow with IKEA. Together with colleagues all over the world 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. We secure a high-performing supplier base that can contribute to and grow together with IKEA in the future. Our ambition is to develop meaningful and better procurement!

Questions and support? Let's connect!

If you have job-specific questions, please contact Christel Rodan at christel.rodan@ingka.ikea.com. If you have questions regarding the recruitment process, please feel free to contact recruiter Alexandra Boyd at alexandra.boyd@ingka.ikea.com.

We look forward to receiving your application as soon as possible, but please no later than December 17th, 2024. Please send your application in English consisting of a CV and motivational letter. Please note that we don't accept applications via e-mail.

We kindly like to ask you to expect some delays in response to your application, due to the Christmas and New Year Holidays.

Studies show that members of underrepresented communities do not apply for jobs unless they are 100% “qualified”. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we would like to consider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think. We look forward to receiving your application. [From: “Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified” by Tara Sophia Mohr, August 2014].