Agile Team Coach

IKEA Core Business Supply 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.
Supply Chain Development (SCD) is going into the next phase of a great journey. By gathering the end-to-end supply chain development agenda into one organisation, embedding process and the development and management of digital solutions into the business, we create the best preconditions for meeting the future with the right competences and business capabilities. By this we will also create the preconditions to a world class supply chain that enable IKEA to efficiently respond to the ever-changing customer needs.
The SCD function includes five areas; Sourcing, Design & Planning, Execution, Intralogistics & Market logistics. Additionally SCD has three assignments to lead and keep together the overarching development in the field of Technology in Supply, Packaging & Identification for total IKEA and the Development Networks to lead collaborative innovation approach around Logistics and Fulfilment.
Three support functions will be key to support the whole organisation: BN & Portfolio mgmt., Communication and People & Culture. Our mission is to design & secure the preconditions for a world class supply chain, run and improve everyday solutions, keep together and optimize the development and innovation agenda.
Job Description
Do you have good communication skills, embrace change, highly adaptable, self-driven leader, capability to learn new skills and a team player? Do you already possess a strong Supply Chain Planning background and is curious and motivated to explore development/innovation with new learned competence? Here in our team(s), you will receive this opportunity to grow business and personal goals. We in Supply Chain Development – Planning Development are now looking for 3 agile team coaches to join our teams in Planning Development: Sales & Demand, Need & Balancing and Capacity
If this is what you have been seeking, continue reading and reflect in your application how you, with your experience, knowledge, motivation and capabilities will contribute as an Agile Team Coach in the area of Supply Chain Development - Planning Development.
We are adopting an Agile ways of working and having the ability to be flexible with our resources based on the development agenda is crucial in delivering satisfaction to our customer/end users.
As an Agile Team Coach you will create sustainable customer value, growth and profitability for IKEA by leading and contributing to the company development work; how we work, lead and organize, with process orientation as the starting-point.
As an Agile Team Coach you will be responsible for:
Responsible for the adoption of lean and agile principles so teams are effective in achieving its purpose and delivering customer value to IKEA
Provide coaching, guidance and training towards roles within SCD as well as other roles within Supply in order to adopt, implement and improve agile ways of working
Ensure collaboration and alignment between teams in order to secure engagement around shared business value
Organise and run planning meetings, ensuring teams reach a collective agreement on the work for the period i.e. there is an agreed backlog and plan in the digital tool JIRA
Remove any potential blockers to deliver agreed work for the period and escalate whenever needed.
Educate and help members of the team to understand how they can contribute in becoming a high performing team
Sustain the internal agile community and champion involvement in external agile communities to share information, improve skills and actively work on advancing the knowledge within the area of expertise
Provide transparency and visibility on the team’s activity/progress to be able to quickly respond to change
Track and use empirical data to produce objective measures and ensure continuous improvement
Advocate and demonstrate the benefits of the lean and agile way of working in the organisation in order to build the agile capability, both across SCD as well as within the Supply

We offer you a position in a fast paced, truly global environment where development and constantly being on the way is in focus!
Qualifications
You are a strong business person with a passion for digital work, with energy to simplify ways of working! We see that you are highly driven by development and constantly being on the way. You dare to think differently and you have an agile approach and adapt as we go. You are interested in process way of working, digitalization and finding new ways of working and are highly motivated to do this by leading business through people and collaborate and interact with different stakeholders.
You have proven experience and knowledge in:
Expert level of understanding of lean and agile development practices and working in agile teams
Extensive knowledge of servant leadership, empowering people and teams
Extensive knowledge of the psychology of teams and group dynamics
Good knowledge of product mindset
Good knowledge of scaling agile frameworks
Good knowledge of agile organisational theory
Good knowledge of stakeholder management
Good knowledge of the core business of INTER IKEA
Good knowledge of IKEAs corporate identity, core values and vision of creating a better everyday life for the many people
Intermediate knowledge of software development practices and execution
Experience of working with supply chain and supply chain planning

Additional information
Sounds irresistible?
We welcome all applications. Submit your application, CV and letter of motivation, online via our recruitment system Smart Recruiters no later than the 10th of October. Please note that we handle applications on a continuous basis, so if you are interested apply as soon as possible as we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidate!
We are looking forward receiving your application!