Category Purchaser within Marketing, IKEA IMS

We’re looking for a candidate with:

•Minimum 5 years of experience within Marketing and/or Marketing Procurement with a strong focus on Advertising Production. We are ideally looking for a candidate who has lead global advertising production projects in the past for a global advertiser. •A university degree in Business Administration or corresponding. •Fluency in English, spoken and written. •Possibility to travel

As a person you have strong communication skills and have a drive and motivation to improve and challenge our business with a commercial and analytical approach. You have the experience of how to cooperate and work with different people in an international environment in a pro-active and structured way. You have good knowledge of working with a total cost approach, price structures and cost drivers within Marketing in general and for Advertising Production in particular. You have experience of different remunerations models used in the business and have a holistic view of Content Development and its role in Marketing overall. It is important that you are a self-starter with a strong sense of ownership who feels comfortable in driving your own projects towards agreed business goals and timelines.

In order to enjoy your work with us it’s important that you share our core values and ideas. At IKEA you will work in a vibrant culture where your ideas are heard, where there is opportunity to learn new skills and where the goal always is “to create a better everyday life for the many people”. IKEA IMS offers down-to-earth, straightforward people the possibility to grow, both as individuals and in their professional roles. In this global role, you will be responsible for strategic purchase of Advertising Production related to Content Development. You will contribute to the development of the sourcing strategy, the creation of action plans and to drive purchase projects within IKEA globally together with your colleagues from start to finish.

You will monitor the market and strive to fully realize the potential and develop the business. You will also negotiate, execute and follow-up large scale global procurement agreements based on value-chain analysis in close cooperation with key business partners within your business area. IKEA Group (INGKA Holding B.V. and its controlled entities) is one of 11 different groups of companies that own and operate IKEA sales channels under franchise agreements with Inter IKEA Systems B.V. IKEA Group is the world’s largest home furnishing retailer and operates 357 stores in 29 countries (FY17). IKEA Group stores had 817 million visits during FY17 and 2.1 billion visits www.IKEA.com.

In order to run the everyday IKEA business there is a need for various products and services (everything from shopping trollies and forklifts to IT-solutions and marketing services). These products and services are supplied by the Procurement function in IKEA Group, which consists of a global network with more than 500 co-workers located in Älmhult, Malmö, Wiesbaden, Philadelphia and Shanghai and in most countries where IKEA operates. Together with key competences across the world we contribute to a greater customer experience.