Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. We do this by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing and food products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them.

The Inter IKEA Group is a part of Inter IKEA Systems B.V., owner of the IKEA Concept and worldwide IKEA franchisor.

IKEA Supply is part of IKEA Range & Supply and is responsible for securing that the product offer is produced and delivered to our customers. We lead the supply agenda across many functions and work together with all business areas, different business units, but also retail markets to secure customer availability in all markets and sales channels at lowest total cost.

IKEA Purchasing and Logistics Services US Inc. is part of our Purchasing and Logistics Area Americas which also has an office in Curitiba, Brazil and Mexico City, Mexico, and is a subsidiary of the Inter IKEA Group.

Every year 650 million guests are enjoying food at IKEA in 49 markets. In our Restaurants, Bistros and Swedish Food Markets we want to be a destination for delicious food that is trusted, affordable, healthy, and sustainable – using the same Democratic Design principles as used for the IKEA home furnishing offer. 

In Category Area Food, we lead and execute the global purchasing agenda, material direction, responsible sourcing and the quality compliance agenda for the food range in IKEA. Today we are 180 colleagues who work globally while being located across Europe, Americas, Asia and other regions in order to be close to our supplier partners.

Come see things a little bit differently with us.

We see Business and People, Togetherness, entrepreneurship, innovative partnerships with suppliers. We offer positions that challenge your skills and inspire you to grow. We work hard to make sure everyone’s voice is heard and that everyone can make a difference. 

About the job

As a Supply Planner you are the link between IKEA and our suppliers, leading logistics development and contributing to value chain development with a total cost approach. You will actively ensure that the agreed business set-ups 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 be part of a business team, working closely together to continuously develop our suppliers looking at improvements in cost, production set up, product development and logistics. 

About the assignment

A normal day as a Supply Planner could include:

• Securing and developing logistics performance through common Action Plans with Suppliers
• Continuously follow-up, analyze and take action to improve supplier delivery performance
• Achieving excellence in running logistics operations by interacting with respective stakeholders and complying with working methods
• Taking the lead in operational capacity planning at supplier level and contributing to tactical capacity planning
• Planning and optimizing flow in a sending perspective in efficient delivery and supply solutions
• Actively contributing to the planning and execution of the best set-up for product changes at supplier, during constraints periods and for sales activities
• Actively identifying best logistical offer, furthermore implement, maintain and review by having customer and total cost in mind
• Securing implementation and contributing to defining ways of working, systems & tools to support business decisions and suppliers to achieve logistics performance
• Develop and maintain suppliers’ logistic competence towards becoming responsible for their own performance through working closely with suppliers, assessing supplier logistics capability and providing them relevant training & working methods
• Contribute to supplier development by taking a lead from logistic perspective and running supplier development projects.
   

Do you have knowledge of supplier capabilities, capacity planning? Could you take the leadership to ensure our supplier has goods ready in time and in full to fulfil customers’ need at lowest possible landed cost? Would you be able to translate the Category Plan into logistics solutions and always keep Total IKEA and Total Cost Development in mind? Then we are looking for you! We wish that you tick the following boxes:

• You have minimal 2-year working experience in logistics and supply chain management 
• You have strong knowledge of production planning, capacity planning, supplier management, and purchasing
• You have good understanding about the supply chain cost drivers from raw material to customer
• You have strong knowledge of INCOTERMS and logistic parameters in Purchasing Agreement
•  You are proactive, analytical, and solution-oriented mind
• You can deal with multiple tasks under time pressure
• You have strong data analytical skills
• You have excellent Microsoft office skills
• You have fluent oral English and are good communicator
• You are quick learner and good flexibility to adapt to change
• You are a team player
• You share the IKEA values and culture.

At IKEA, we value diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are committed to providing coworkers with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We encourage individualism and invite you to come join our team and be yourself with us! 

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristic protected by law. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need.  

Want to learn more about current opportunities? Come say Hej (hello in Swedish) here: https://about.ikea.com/en/work-with-us