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The Global Quality team is part of IKEA Supply and is responsible for creating and maintaining standards and ways of working within IKEA Supply and for verifying compliance against requirements and standards. The role of IKEA Supply is to supply the IKEA range at the lowest total cost, fully compliant and ensuring that the range is produced under good social and environmental conditions.

As Product Compliance Manager in the Global Quality team, you will play a key role in leading and developing the competence and capabilities of your direct team and Quality Compliance Specialist matrix in order to support the business teams and suppliers. You ensure the highest levels of compliance for the IKEA range. You will report to the Global Quality Compliance Manager Chris Bird. 

You are also responsible to lead the work to perform annual Product Requirement Reviews and you measure and report fulfilment of this to key stakeholders.

You will also:

• Be in the lead to secure competence around product requirements in IKEA Supply
• Set common priorities in the Yearly Action plans for the business related to Product requirements.
• Contribute to the development of IKEA Product Requirements
• Be the Business owner of the Purchasing Compliance tools (e.g., Connect, Product Requirement Review Tool)
• Develop and maintain the IKEA purchasing Manual working methods and working instructions related to quality compliance.

Is this the right challenge for you? To be successful in this role we believe you are strong in people and business leadership and have a strong foundation both living and sharing the IKEA culture and values. Additionally, you have:

• The passion to deliver results by involving, leading, developing, and inspiring people. You know when to be a leader, manager, coach, or mentor.
• Excellent remote leadership skills. You act & think in a virtual environment.
• The ability to lead business with a holistic and analytical view, always acting with the Customer, Supplier, total IKEA, and Quality in mind.
• The capability to communicate and inspire in a complex international environment, in order engage co-workers and business partners.
• Fantastic stakeholder management skills and the ability to build networks for collaboration

If you have any questions about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact People & Culture Generalist, [email protected]. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Chris Bird +48506003503. We are looking forward to your application! Please submit both your CV and motivational letter in English by 10th of September. We are reviewing applications as they come through so don’t wait to apply!