At Business Area Kitchen & Dining we have an amazing range, which also creates a complexity of ensuring that we secure a complete kitchen for our customers. Our dining customers enjoy valuable time by our tables & chairs with their family and friends while enjoying our design and comfort to an outstanding price. With these two different businesses being so dependent on a system approach it takes more of us, working even better together, to make 1 customer happy.
Kitchen & Dining has the recipe to create the dream kitchens, tables and chairs for everyday life for the many. The recipe is passionate people working, developing and delivering together, with the diverse talents, in a caring, respectful and collaborative way. Together we are unique, we unleash our full potentials and make it happen!

GROWING TOGETHER
IKEA offers an exciting and empowering work environment in a global marketplace. And as the world’s leader at life at home, you have exceptional opportunities to grow and develop together with us. For us at IKEA, the most important thing is that you share our values.

As a Deputy Supply Manager for Business Area Kitchen & Dining you are, together with the Supply Manager, responsible for leading and developing the supplying processes in a business context. You are responsible for availability at the lowest supply chain cost possible of the products within the Business Area on a global level. This you will achieve by working close together with your group of Demand Planners and Need Planners, but also by working close with Regional Supply Team (where the Kitchen & Dining team is our matrix responsibility) and to the Category organisation. The assignment is to be close with your Demand Planners working closely with Retail and at the same time be close with your Need Planners that are closer to the supplier capacities and sending capabilities, making sure that we create the best possible executable plan to ensure availability to lowest cost. Having this assignment in Business Area Kitchen & Dining demands more collaboration to ensure that we plan complete kitchens in a holistic view  and with the complexity for the dining range ensure availability, everything for when customers what to have it taken home or delivered.
You are also part of the Supply Manager matrix for IKEA of Sweden where you are contributing to new and improved ways of working.

You also contribute to the development of the Business Plan and Action Plan process within Kitchen & Dining. You lead the implementation of the decided supply- and logistical action plan together with different partners in our Supply chain. We are taking our first steps of entering a multi-channel retailing environment which will put new demands on our logistics. We truly want to be the ambassadors for availability and that our mind set, actions and result will be an inspiration for the rest of IKEA, as deputy supply manager for Kitchen & Dining this is our top focus.

Is this the next challenge for you?

To be successful in this role we believe that you have;
· A university degree in a relevant area or equivalent experience
· Experience from leading people and processes within Logistics/Operations, preferably from Retail environment
· Authentic IKEA leadership
· Excellent communication and planning skills with a clear and structured approach
· Experience from multichannel retailing is considered a plus
 
To be an inspiring and distinct leader is an important part of the assignment and therefore you must like to lead and drive things through others and you do this by creating trust and building long term relationships where your ability to influence and motivate others help you. As a person you thrive on working in a dynamic, fast paced environment where you need to drive things forward with the help of your team. You have the ability to work on a strategic level but also have a great interest in the details and the daily operations. You take a holistic view to your work and you have a problem-solving approach, combined with great networking skills.

Do you find this interesting? We look forward receiving your application in English already today, and at the latest January 7th!

If you have any questions regarding this position, please contact Supply Manager Maria Johansson at +46 732321269
If questions about the recruitment process, you can turn to Recruitment Specialist Hana Pazourova at +46 708337087.