Business Development Manager for License Management, Software & Platforms

at  IKEA

WHO WE ARE IN CATEGORY AREA INDIRECT PROCUREMENT

Indirect Procurement organisation (Category Area Indirect Procurement) is part of Purchasing Development and has received the task to operate across the Inter IKEA Group companies, between all three core businesses (Franchise / Supply /Range). Our ambition is to secure the best possible prerequisites for Inter IKEA Group to handle the new world, at the same time fulfilling the future needs of partnership and supplier innovations within Digital, Professional Services, Facility Management and Machinery & Equipment.

CATEGORY DESCRIPTION

The category Digital has 1200 suppliers delivering business critical services to support the management and development of Inter IKEA in the fields of

• Cloud, Networks and Data centres
• Digital Consulting and digital transformation services
• Application development and maintenance services
• Software and Platforms
• End user services and devices
• IT Hardware

The movement to digital solutions will accelerate with increased usage of AI, ML and solutions around data management. It’s a complex area to navigate within and managing the terms & conditions as well as commercials with partners when it comes to SaaS/Software as a Service. The move to cloud will be priority.
Digital services include new development of applications/solutions/services, enhancements of the same and consulting. We need to (re)consolidate our supplier’s footprint, doing this in parallel while harmonizing the services and the SLAs as well as define and drive productivity and efficiency models to be implemented.
The sites we supply, as well as our supplier base, have an international scope with the point of gravity in Europe and India. The category area as well as the category is in a transformation. At this moment we are in a build-up phase, so for you who thrive in a position where less is already decided, where you will have a high influence in both what to do and how to do it together going forward, this is a great job for you.
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