Food Purchasing Intern (Start ASAP)

Your role

Job Responsibilities:

• 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 eligibility criteria:

• 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

Once you join as a full-time employee after an internship, you can enjoy the following benefits:

• Tack! co-worker loyalty program
  • Tack! gives all the eligible co-workers an extra contribution to their pension funds. Unit, position, or salary don’t matter – everyone receives the same amount.
• One IKEA - Bonus program
  • The One IKEA Bonus program is a bonus system for all IKEA Group co-workers, based on performance on the values of simplicity and togetherness, with everyone in the same unit working towards the same objectives. Sharing goals helps them to work together as one IKEA.

Training & development

During your internship, you will have access to all the information and resources you need, and gain valuable hands-on experience and insights into IKEA's business. Being in an IKEA environment can give you a new perspective and spark creative thinking, leading to innovative solutions and ideas. Moreover, the working days are approximately 3 days per week, and more working days during summer vacation.

Career progression

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

How to apply

Recruitment Process:

• Search & apply for a job
• Resume review
• Phone screening
• Interview
• Hiring decision
• Onboarding

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• ikea.cn/cn/en/this-is-ikea/work-with-us/benefits-pub8c6da021
• ikea.com/be/en/this-is-ikea/work-with-us/students-and-graduates-kick-start-your-career-at-ikea-pub03257c90
• ikea.com/us/en/this-is-ikea/work-with-us/your-step-by-step-guide-to-the-ikea-recruitment-process-pubfffab7d1
• youtube.com/@IKEAUSA