Product Requirement & Compliance Specialist – Children’s Articles – IKEA of Sweden, Älmhult 

Product Requirements & Compliance (PR&C) within IKEA of Sweden leads and designs processes to secure sellable products. We define product requirements and enable verification and monitoring of compliance. We strengthen competence regarding safety and health requirements during product development and product improvement.

As a Product Requirement & Compliance Specialist you will secure requirements for children´s articles you will provide specialist support, and together with the product development teams, set pre-conditions to secure safe and healthy products that complies with market requirements and standards that fulfill or even exceeds customer expectations in all our sales markets. 

More specifically you will:

Take the leadership for gathering information externally about existing and proposed product requirements for existing and future life at home products.
Lead the development of product requirements and secure that they are documented and communicated in a clear and simple way.

Support the product development teams with competence development activities and implementation of product requirements.
Secure that we have procedures to show compliance.
Contribute in the continuous improvement work in the IKEA requirement and compliance process.
Share your competence, experience and learning’s with colleagues.
Establish your internal and external network needed to succeed in your assignment.

Is this the challenge for you?

We offer a challenging role where you will work on a global arena with the possibility to influence, lead and develop. We believe you have a university degree or equivalent experience from a relevant area. You are experienced from regulatory work and product requirement/compliances in an international environment. It is an advantage if you have experience from product development of consumer products.

To succeed you need to be able to navigate in a complex international organization, taking leadership and responsibility within your assignment. You have the ability to communicate in a clear and simple way with experts and non-experts. You are driven by a strong curiosity and have a desire to find better ways together with others, always with the business and our customers in focus. Since we are working in an international environment you need to be strong in communicating in English.

We are looking forward receiving your application!
Send it, in English, as soon as possible. Note that we interview candidates continuously and might close the recruitment process before the last application date if we find the right candidate.

If you have about the recruitment process contact Jonas Levin at +46 728 865 384