Business Developer - Category Area Food - Trader

Job Description
As our next Business Developer Trader in Category Area Food, you will develop and implement common action planswith our Traders, delivering excellent performance in running operations and building professional long term business development. You will also identify and act on new purchasing possibilities to secure optimal sourcing set-up together with food categories and food logistic team.
About the assignment
Being a Business Developer Trader in Category Area Food, you will be overall responsible for food purchase from Traders in our region, managing performance, relationship and overall cost of purchased food products.
Among other things, you:
Are responsible for building professional and long-term relationships through IKEA way of doing business, based on a shared business model, trust, and transparency with key Traders in North America
Negotiate yearly prices on cost plus model and monitor KPI parameters
Identify business consolidation opportunities &
propose actions on them
Establish flexible product offer to cater for customer changing needs from existing Traders
Professionally challenge Traders to constantly improve their performance in close cooperation with the IKEA Food Logistic team
Pro-actively work together with Retailers to integrate opportunities and act on deviations to Sourcing Assignment
Are responsible to lower total cost at Trader level through optimizing value chain.
Work closely in Trader matrix within the Category Area and together with Supply Chain Operations and contribute to development of the Trader business for IKEA