At Clas Ohlson, we are team players who genuinely care about our customers, each other, and the results of our business. We have a strong, customer centric, culture which is firmly rooted in our 100-year history, and an outspoken goal to take leadership in sustainability. If you share our ambition to achieve more, we can offer you great opportunities for professional and personal growth. We believe in you.

Let's grow together!

Job Purpose 

• Assortment development & new product creation, driving commercially competitive innovations in string lights, solar lights, and related seasonal categories. 

• Supplier sourcing & supplier development, ensuring a competitive, diversified, and resilient supplier base in China and South/Southeast Asia. 

• Execute sourcing strategies that secure competitive second sourcing and multi country options (Asia working experience strongly preferred). 

• Maintain strong supplier relationships for product development and production, monitor vendor performance, and drive continuous improvement.  

• Identify, evaluate, and onboard new potential suppliers  

Assortment Development & New Product Creation 

• Develop new and existing products based on inspiration briefs, development briefs, and buying requests from Sweden. Ensure that new developments meet expectations on function, quality, design, cost, sustainability, and timing.  

• Own the end-to-end product creation process from concept → supplier sourcing → prototyping → cost modelling → sample approval → order placement. 

• Drive supplier led innovation and proactively identify new product opportunities in string lights, solar lights, and related seasonal ranges. 

Cost Performance & FactBased Commercial Excellence 

• Create, verify, and challenge cost breakdowns (CBD) with a high degree of analytical rigor. 

• Conduct teardown analyses of seasonal lighting products to identify cost drivers and optimization opportunities. 

• Use market pricing and shouldcost methodologies to establish transparent, fair, and competitive costing structures. 

• Lead difficult supplier discussions, prioritizing company interest while maintaining necessary working relationships. 

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Management 

• Communicate and align with stakeholders in Sweden and IPO offices to ensure assortment demands are understood and delivered, coordinate tasks, resolve issues, support product development and sourcing pipelines.  

• Ensure accurate and timely information flow on project status, quotations, timelines, and supplier performance. 

• Maintain a constant improvement mindset, analysing business results monthly through KPIs and identifying new opportunities.  

• Improve existing offers by developing suppliers, upgrading products, and testing new materials or processes. 

• Ensure ways of working reflect high commercial awareness, strong ethical standards, and longterm customer value. 

Who are you?

We are Looking For WHO with Abilities:

Relevant education from a university, college or vocational university is desirable. You have a good ability to express yourself in speech and writing in English.

Welcome Home
Clas Ohlson offers an inclusive and encouraging work environment where everyone is expected to dare to try new things and to take initiative. Your drive and your willingness to develop Clas Ohlson are what will keep us one step ahead. We believe in diversity and see our co-workers various backgrounds, personalities, experiences, and skills, as important to our success.

In addition to the opportunity to grow with us, we also offer market-competitive salary, pension, bonus, staff discount, health and wellness benefits, and collective agreement.

To learn more about what it's like to work with us, click on the following link and take part our employees' stories.

Application

Questions about the position are answered by recruiter  Jane Wang at jane.wang@clasohlson.com. Applications are processed on an ongoing basis.

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