| IKEA is a home furnishing company from Sweden that offers well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible can afford them. IKEA is a production oriented retailer and is involved in the entire pipeline from product design, purchasing from suppliers globally, warehousing and retailing to end customers IKEA Trading China leads the global and regional purchasing for home furnishing products sold in IKEA stores worldwide. There are a total of 6 Trading offices between Coastal and Inland China who handle a total purchasing volume of 22% of IKEA Global purchases. IKEA in China has aggressive growth plans in building capacities to align with the global retail growth plans. |
| IKEA Trading in China is looking for Highly Talented people who have the potential and capability to become our FUTURE BUSINESS LEADERS having the possibility to lead business & people both in China and Globally in IKEA. IKEA business leaders have a challenging role to lead complex and large business combined with strong people leadership. Our business leaders work in key Global purchasing assignments involving leadership of business and people in an international environment. If you enjoy leading complex business and team of competent & motivated people in a dynamic and challenging global environment, this is an opportunity that you do not want to miss! |
| You will also start with a challenging assignment in purchasing within a defined material or range in home furnishing business. This involves working with purchase development process in a highly competitive landscape to build, develop and secure purchasing capacities with the lowest costs. Purchasing in IKEA combines key suppliers relations, Product Quality, Social & Environment compliance, logistic solutions to deliver the lowest possible cost for customer success. The above is achieved by a strong people leadership! |
| As a future business leader, you are passionate talent who is motivated with a strong ability to lead teams with strong business-man-ship. We believe you have a university degree within Business, Industry or Engineering and have around 5 years experience in a highly competitive purchasing environment involving supplier relations and Production knowledge. Exposure to Industrial purchasing connected to Production knowledge and concepts will be an added advantage! You have a natural flair to communicate effectively in an inspiring way, a high level of self initiative, creativity and a strategic thinking ability! | |||||
People development is a key strength in IKEA and we believe in developing people by giving them a professional and challenging business assignment, investing on learning and development and having a clear development plan for competent individuals to realize their career dreams! IKEA will invest on you with extensive learning and development opportunity & exposure to the global network in IKEA. IKEA offers you an assignment in connection with strong focus on your development and future career. If you can show results we will show you opportunities! | |||||
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