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Category and buying

Can your ideas make a change for others? Build a new everyday life with us

Together we create better alternatives for the future

As an employee in category and buying, you are part of driving the major future issues forward. In 2050, food will stand for 25% of the global carbon footprint. By making it even easier to shop organic, locally produced, and healthy foods, we will help the Swedish people to eat better and live a better life. Our common mission is to create strategies and develop product selections that will change behaviors and facilitate a kinder lifestyle for ourselves and our planet. On top of that, we will have great products that fit everyone’s wallet. We will offer the most attractive, effective, and custom product range to the lowest price on the market, our own branded products being a part of this.

​​​​​​​With us you’ll work toward ambitious goals – being a market leader requires constant change, development, and innovation. By creating the right business and predicting market trends, we will stay one step ahead of the competition. Together we have the responsibility to create opportunities for a better tomorrow for our customers.
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Do you like challenges and development at a high pace?
Shape our business by creating strong relationships and keep a constructive dialogue with suppliers, retailers and colleagues. ICA’s organization is large and complex, and the people working here are driven by the challenge to make complicated things easier. Things happen at a high pace, but you’ll always have an experienced colleague close at hand. Sharing knowledge and insights with colleagues is an important part of your future with us. We believe that a coaching leadership will give you the room to grow in our large organization, and to take part of every opportunity to learn something new.

Build business that affect many

Do you want to find your own products in your friend’s fridge? With us, your decisions will bring direct results that improve the everyday life of many people. Together with our specialists in category and buying, you will have the right conditions to be part of, and lead, lots of positive projects.
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Common roles with us

The people working in category and buying are building business together. With us, you can work with everything from leading innovation and product development to analyzing trends, negotiating prices and purchasing food, non-food or pharmacy goods. Some of our most common roles are Purchasing Manager, Category Manager, Purchasing Coordinator, and Product Manager.

Meet some of our employees

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Daniel Breeze

Sourcing Manager for ICA’s own branded products
Daniel Breeze works as a sourcing manager for ICA’s own branded products. Daniel is the graduate engineer from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, who through logistics found his way to ICA and purchasing. There are no questions about pet food or toilet paper too difficult for Daniel, and he is more than happy to let anyone who wants experience “his” own products. Apart from being ambitious and driven, Daniel believes, that it’s important to have fun at work!
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