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Hej Business Developer,

Do you want to go to work and help create a better life at home?

With us, you can feel at home in your work while sharing that feeling with millions of people around the world. We encourage you to stand up for yourself and others, creating an environment where everyone feels welcome. We invite you to open new doors, embrace mistakes, and grow from them. As our Business Developer, you’ll have many opportunities to try things you’ve never done before.

Your new job

As a Business Developer, you’ll play an important part in the team and contribute to a better everyday life for the many by developing and leading an innovative and excellent supplier base to significantly lower prices. The impact of our work will resonate in homes and hearts across the world. On a typical working day, you will:

• Build long term professional business relationship with specific suppliers
• Work continuously to lower/optimize the costs at suppliers to contribute to total lower costs for IKEA supply chain and end customer by negotiating with suppliers and leading RFQs when needed according to IKEA values and guidelines
• Secure best material supplier and material choice is awarded for NEW product developments as well as product improvements in IKEA
• Lead the contract review and signing process between IKEA and suppliers
• Secure an optimized supplier base for the relevant materials for running material grades
• Lead the business and performance in the business team together with all members of the team by being overall responsible for supplier performance
• Develop and execute common action plans with suppliers to deliver to the execution of Category Business plans.
• Professionally challenge suppliers to improve all aspects of supplier performance according to IKEA supply strategy
• Build effective and actively maintain relations with suppliers through IKEA way of working
• Evaluate and develop existing production capacities especially for recycled plastic materials
• Pro-actively identify and implement new business opportunities.
• Responsible that supplier meets social, environmental standards.

What we’d like you to bring to the table

To be successful in the role as a Business Developer we believe you have:

• Profound experience in leading global purchasing and sourcing operations
• A plastic material and production background
• The ability to build long-term, meaningful relationships
• We also think that you share the IKEA values, culture and have a strong interest to work for a home furnishings company

It’s a plus if you also:

• Have lots of energy, drive and commitment to reach excellent results
• Bring an entrepreneurial mindset combined with a simple leadership approach of bringing people together towards innovative ideas
• Speak and write English fluently and communicate in a meaningful manner

Be yourself, a Business Developer, and more!

Inter IKEA Group is the group of companies that connects IKEA franchisees with range development and suppliers and aligns the overall IKEA strategic direction. Every day, we strive to develop, produce and sell products and services that are affordable and accessible to everyone. With us, you contribute to building a democratic brand and workplace that has a positive impact on both the planet and people's lives.

IKEA offers well-designed, functional home furnishings at prices so low that as many people as possible can afford them. The role of the supply process is to buy, produce and distribute the IKEA range at the lowest total cost, making high quality available to the customer under good social and environmental conditions.

Your health, wellbeing, and development matter most to us, and our benefits are designed with you in mind. As a co-worker and a person, you are an essential part of our down to earth, playful, and inclusive culture, collaborating with others across roles, departments, and even across the globe. In this curious and optimistic environment, you’ll find endless opportunities to grow. Make us the home of your career.

We welcome your application

Get ready to assemble something new! We look forward to receiving your application by the 15th of June 2026.

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. For this specific recruitment priority will be given to impacted co-workers in IKEA Core Business Supply provided competence requirements are met for the role

If you have any questions about the position, send an email to Business Development Manager Johan Roos at [email protected] and if you need to know anything about the recruitment process, please reach out to People & Culture Specialist Samuel Karlsson at [email protected]

At IKEA, we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. You’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. We believe that people’s different perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities make us better at understanding our customers’ dreams and needs. At IKEA we’re all on the same project.