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Produzione & Supply Chain

Sourcing Developer

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  • Bangalore, India
  • Logistica & Supply Chain

Descizione del ruolo

  • ID dell'offerta: 326749

  • Data della pubblicazione: 02/06/2026

    • Who you are

    As a person you are passionate about people, business, IKEA’s purpose and continuously driving better performance. You are energized by increasing customer value, driving business growth and contributing to overall success and results through people as well as motivated by leading and developing people.

    For this role we believe you have a University degree in logistics, economics, business administration or relevant working experience in strategic sourcing. 2 - 4 years working experience in sourcing environment (strategic sourcing preferred. Experience in developing business development roadmaps. Experience in contract management, negotiations, business analysis and project management. Experience in driving business through interdependent leadership skills and problem-solving. Good knowledge of the legislations and regulations governing the logistics fulfilment industry
    Understand profit and loss and how to affect its result through personal actions. Excellent presentation skills. Proven record of consistently meeting agreed budgets and goals, and working on plans. Engaging a receiver by creating a passion for plans.

    • Good business understanding: understanding of key performance measurement used to plan, follow up and steer the business with a customer-centric approach
    • Excellent knowledge of, supply chain, warehousing operations and service business leading to an excellent customer fulfilment
    • Excellent knowledge of the customer and co-worker needs, demands and expectations on the markets
    • Market and industry intelligence: applies market and industry knowledge to achieve organisational goals and objectives; understand market specifics when making decisions
    • Change management and leading in the unknown/exploring
    • Stakeholder management: knowledge of how to identify and involve relevant stakeholders in a project, process or question to make things happen
    • Supplier relationship management: strong knowledge of working with and developing external partners’ overtime. Strong knowledge on how to develop service provider relationships. Create and execute long-term development roadmaps.
    • Financial competence and understanding of the financial impact on total network
    • Knowledge of relevant IT solution landscapes associated with sourcing and service fulfilment.
    • Customer orientation and centricity: see the customer first and consider the impact on the customer when taking decisions
    • Eagerness and desire to understand the IKEA business and customer needs and influence improvement of the business with focus on customer satisfaction
    • Applying strategic, tactical and operational approach for analysing business opportunities from customer/market perspective and inspired by challenging situations
    • 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

    Your responsibilities

    To take direct responsibility for securing fulfilment on the market in an end-to-end perspective by enabling the prerequisites for excellent quality in execution:

    • Blended sourcing options
    • Make capacities available for Customer Fulfilment whenever and wherever needed.
    • Secure long term development and preparedness for growth as per market penetration plan
    • IKEA as a preferred partner
    • Alternative Fuel Development

    Contribute to the day to day work and development of the strategic sourcing organisation within the market with a customer-centric and collaborative approach in focus.
    Contribute to creating the right prerequisites in the organisation to enable the growth agenda and secure the Group and market Customer Fulfilment agenda is translated into the Strategic Sourcing organisation.

    • Responsible for securing long term sourcing development and implementation for customer fulfilment capacities utilising blended sourcing options through driving the Fulfilment Development Process in the market.
    • Responsible for 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 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 organisation and for the alignment with the Group Organisation and other business partners and stakeholders on relevant topics.
    • Responsible for leading assigned sourcing 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 Global 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.

    Together as a team

    Customer Fulfilment (CFF) is a fundamental part in making IKEA multichannel retailing in reality. To support IKEA in achieving business objectives, CFF acts as a fully integrated, process-oriented organisation with an end-to-end approach to develop our business and deliver results across functions together with our partners.

    We are focusing on providing seamless shopping experience with great quality in all touchpoints for the many people.
    Fulfilment Strategic Sourcing will contribute to this objective by:
    • Enabling the fulfilment of products and core services through all sales channels with great lead times, availability and quality at lowest possible costs that enable an affordable price.
    • Acting in a responsible way to secure that IKEA is considered a preferred and strategic partner on a market.
    • Striving for high performance at the lowest cost and long-term profitability acting responsibly and thereby create great customer experience .

    WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

    At IKEA we value diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are committed to providing coworkers with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We encourage individualism and invite you to come join our team and be yourself with us! We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristic protected by law. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need.








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