Business Developer / Project Leader New Business & Innovation

Job description

The word impossible has been deleted from our dictionary and must remain so Ingvar Kamprad

In New Business, we are entrepreneurs to make things happen!

Identify and develop new business and market opportunities in existing and new purchasing markets with quantified benefits contributing to three roads forward, i.e., new supply markets, suppliers, sub-suppliers and development partners new to IKEA. Deploy new product types and functions, material innovations and pilot new business models enabling early customer and industrial validation.

It takes both brains and heart to work with us. You see things a little differently. So do we. We believe that what you value are more important than what your CV says. We offer positions that will challenge your skills and let you grow. We offer you more than a job!

We are currently looking for a Business Developer / Project Leader in the New Business and Innovation Deployment Team based in Istanbul.

About the assignment

As a Project Leader you will together with the team :

• Explore and analyze markets and industries, market trends and based on that identify business opportunities to create business cases, and then engage business owners, seek and gain a mandate to test and try.
• Manage and deliver a portfolio of sourcing projects as identification and startup of new suppliers, new sub-suppliers, new sourcing regions, social entrepreneurs, exploring sustainability opportunities etc. based on given assignments from relevant New Business stakeholders.
• Manage and deliver a portfolio of deployment projects in the scope of the market- specific range, new product innovations, and new business models and other business opportunities including logistics.
• Lead assigned projects by formulating project scope, requirements, and goals, involving & engaging relevant competence from inside and outside of IKEA to deliver results towards defined objectives.
• Establish a professional long-term relationship with new suppliers and business partners and lead them through IKEA way of doing business.
• Secure compliance with IKEA Purchasing Manual and other agreed working methods.
• In case of a need act as Business Developer for suppliers which are not handed over to CAT on time.
• Be an IKEA ambassador of IKEA values and do business with Fact-based Business

Qualification

We are looking for people with great passion and commit to drive for identifying and delivering new business opportunities.