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IKEA Components is an important part of the IKEA Supply Chain. We develop and supply IKEA with customer friendly component solutions for better products – and better homes. Our wish is to exceed the customer expectations by providing well-designed components to the IKEA range.

We are currently looking or a Supply Planner within our Honeycomb Team belonging to Category Packaging & Handling Materials.

The Supply Planner is the link between IKEA Components and its suppliers on all operational and logistic issues. The Supply Planner ensures that the agreed business setups are followed, updated and improved to secure the highest level of product availability for IKEA's customers with the lowest total Supply Chain cost. You will work in a team in close co-operation with the Business Developer and the Production Engineer.

About the job

• You will assure agreed service level by monitoring and taking required action on delivery performance

• You will work with information visibility by assuring that systems are updated with correct parameters (information)

• You will communicate update requests to responsible functions within the Supply Chain including suppliers

• You will work closely with our suppliers to provide them with relevant information, training, working methods and help them develop to the required performance levels

• You will follow-up, analyse and take actions to continuously improve supplier performance.

• You will do daily troubleshooting and at the same time find solutions to avoid similar future problems

• You will develop and maintain suppliers’ logistic competence towards becoming responsible on their own performance through: working closely with suppliers, running Supplier Development Projects and providing them relevant trainings & working methods

• Position requires travelling up to 30% of working time.

• You have logistic knowledge from university and/or similar working experience

• You have strong knowledge of supply chain cost drivers from raw material to customer

• You have good understanding of capacity planning, Supplier Logistics, transportation and purchasing

• You speak fluent in English

• You have active driving license cat. B

• You are proactive and analytical

• You can identify and implement new solutions and to optimize the existing ones

• You can create and support a good working relationship with suppliers and other supply chain colleagues

• You are capable of dealing with multiple tasks under time pressure

• You have strong communication and ability to work through others

Sounds interesting?

Submit your application as soon as possible however not later than 22nd of June 2018. Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidate.

We look forward to receive your application, in English!