Food Purchasing Intern (Start ASAP)

Your role

Your responsibilities include the following: 

• Support the Food Purchasing Team’s daily work with flexibilities, which might cover purchasing, logistic, quality, and engineering tasks on business needs
• Assist sourcing of new food suppliers and supply market study
• Assist in data collection and analysis (e.g. product specifications)
• Assist in supporting supplier management

About you

To apply for this role, you need to have the following qualifications:

• Education: no limit, senior grade in master period will be better
• Good at communication, detail-oriented, structured and analytical, quick learner, proactive attitude
• English: proficient in written English, workable in oral English
• Computer: good at MS Office (excel, ppt, etc.), system experience is preferred

Benefits

If you join as a full-time employee after an internship, you will receive some of the benefits which include:

• Tack! co-worker loyalty program
• One IKEA - Bonus program

Training & development

You will have access to all the information and resources you need, and you will also gain valuable hands-on experience and insights into IKEA's business. Plus, being in an IKEA environment can give you a new perspective and spark creative thinking, which can lead to innovative solutions and ideas. The goal is that this will be a relevant and developing time for you and that IKEA should be able to inspire you as much as you will inspire the firm! Please note that this internship period has approximately 3 working days and more working days per week during summer vacation.

Career Progression

All jobs are equally important to IKEA, regardless of whether you work for a short period, part-time, or for a lifetime. Students often stay after they graduate. Changing paths and developing at IKEA is a common thing. 88% of its leaders are recruited from within.

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• youtube.com/@IKEAUSA
• ikea.com/be/en/this-is-ikea/work-with-us/students-and-graduates-kick-start-your-career-at-ikea-pub03257c90
• ikea.cn/cn/en/this-is-ikea/work-with-us/benefits-pub8c6da021