Business Developer, New Category Textiles (4 open positions)

companyDescription One brand, many companies, and many, many people – that’s us in a nutshell. Spread all over the world, we have a passion for home furnishing and an inspiring shared vision: to create a better everyday life for the many people. This, together with our straightforward business idea, shared values, and a culture based on the spirit of togetherness, guides us in everything we do. To offer a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low, that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. To meet the needs of our customers we have a unique business model and value chain. It includes product development, design, supply, manufacture and sales. And of course, it starts and ends with our customers. jobDescription What do we expect from you? Drive business partner base (open, develop, close business partners) according to the Category Business plan and Purchasing Manual. Lead the business performance in the business team together with all members of the team. Together with the business partners, continuously strive for lowest possible cost to contribute to the total lower cost for IKEA products. Responsibility to build professional and long-term relationship with business partners as well as internal stakeholders through IKEA way of doing business. Responsibility to follow up and deliver agreed goals agreed in the action plans. Continuously motivate and professionally challenge business partners to take ownership for their own performance as agreed in business partners action plans. Actively contribute to new product development process as well as product life cycle management (in Purchasing Development). Pro-actively identify and implement new business opportunities. Be an ambassador of IKEA values and culture in everyday work. qualifications To be successful in this role, below competences are important for you: Knowledge of business partners base, understanding of value chain, capabilities, material, and services. Finance for non-finance knowledge Legal knowledge - understanding of purchase agreement package. Strong business ownership and strive for collaboration with team and business partners. Passion to lead and inspire others and willingness to learn and develop self and others. Interest to explore, early adopter in terms of change and desire to make positive impact. Strong motivation to develop, especially to accelerate and strengthen people leadership skills, and participate in defined competence development activities. And if you have the capabilities to… Mature, strong leadership, challenging, demanding and fair, good coach Drive and energy, “hungry” for business build trust and relationships that evolve into long-term business partnership. perform complex negotiations and achieve results through jointly decided actions with stakeholders and business partners Able to work both with details and with a holistic view, to draw conclusions and to be decisive identify and capture opportunities and deliver results in line with respective stakeholders. perform business cases, scenario planning, risk assessment, and draw conclusions to support the right business and people decisions. enable change and make things happen (such as project management etc.) and challenge the current ways of working and find better ways. Then we would like to hear from you! additionalInformation We always recruit based on values, competence, potential and diversity. We will first consider co-workers employed at Inter IKEA Group impacted by organizational changes provided competence requirements are met for the role.. For this recruitment priority will be given to impacted co-workers in Core Business Supply and please note, we have preferred co-workers for this specific role impacted by organizational changes. The last day to send your application is 3rd of June. Please note that we will review applications continuously, so do not delay—make sure to show your interest in the role as soon as possible. We are interviewing on an ongoing basis and will close the advert once we find the right candidate. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Nils Månsson, Category Manager CA Textile Furnishings. If you have any questions about the recruitment process, contact P&C Generalist, Madalina Mititelu.