Job ID: REF19504C
Date posted: 22/10/2024
Company description
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.

Job description

• Represent Inter IKEA group including but not limited to China wholeslae companies upon product requirement relevant government activities and investigation accordingly.
• Responsible for influence future market requirements with the customer in focus based on a global IKEA approach
• Contribute in competence development activities for relevant product requirements to secure right competence in the business
• Give input to the product requirement process in Range and Supply and on the product standardisation process in China in order to create correct requirement to reach compliance
• Responsible for building and maintaining relations with standardisation communities, relevant authorities and alliances as well as internal IKEA stakeholders
• Responsible to develop and maintain enterprise standards for China market
• Responsible for food import control and food safety process

Qualification

• Familiar with the China system for developing requirements
• Basic knowledge in international standardisation work
• Fluent in English and Chinese, both spoken and written
• Good knowledge in IKEA products, IKEA concept and over all IKEA business processes
• Building and maintaining relationships
• Inspired by the complexity of the China market
• Inspired by the IKEA vision
• A strong desire to influence, challenge and improve established standards and legislations
• Always striving to work proactively
• Ability to build trustworthy relations within the sphere of influence
• Strong communication skills to different target groups internally and externally as well as experts and non-experts
• Leadership skills
• Dare to actively take discussions and debates
• Knowledge of business negotiation

More Information
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