Product Requirement Specialist

IKEA of Sweden AB has the assignment to determine and develop the IKEA Product Range, including products, packaging solutions and service products. Safe and healthy products is the number one priority for IKEA. It has always formed an essential part of our vision “To create a better everyday life for the many people”. We believe that all people have the right to safe and healthy products. To secure compliance as well as safe products, we are now looking for three Product Requirement Specialists within the areas of Food-contact, RoHS, and general chemical requirements to our team.


Job Description
As a Product Requirement Specialist (PRS) you will, together with your stakeholders, take lead for setting the pre-requisites for safe, healthy, compliant, and environmentally friendly products for all our products, globally. You will monitor regulatory movements, and scientific data on chemicals of relevance for your specific product or material area. Furthermore, you will secure that the product requirements are documented and communicated in a clear and simple way. You will also provide specialist competence to the organization by supporting them in the implementation of the requirements.
In this important key role, you will have the possibility to take part in long-term strategic work related to the global IKEA Chemical Strategy.
Right now, we have openings within the following areas:
Product Requirement Specialist - Food-contact materials and products. In this role you play an important role in enabling safe, healthy, and compliant food-contact products, such as cookware, kitchen utensils, food storage, tableware, and cutleries. You will interpret various regulatory frameworks relevant for the area, as well as look into various scientific data, related to certain chemicals of concern. Based on this you will, together with stakeholders within the purchasing and product development organization, develop clear and relevant IKEA requirements.
Product Requirement Specialist - RoHS, chemicals in electronics. In this role you play an important role in enabling safe, healthy, and compliant electrical products, with focus on appliances. You will interpret various regulations relevant for the area, as well as look into various scientific data, related to certain chemicals of concern in various materials. Based on this you will, together with stakeholders within the purchasing organization and product development organization, develop clear and relevant IKEA requirements.
2 Product Requirement Specialists - General chemical requirements on materials. In this role you will be focusing on general chemical requirements you play an important role in safeguarding that some of our main materials, used in our furniture product range, are safe, healthy, and compliant. You do that by monitoring regulatory movements as well as keeping yourself up to date on various scientific reports. Based on that you lead the work, together with various stakeholders, to develop clear and relevant chemical requirements. You will for example work with chemical requirements on materials such as PU-foam, metal, plastic, textile, and wood etc.

Qualifications
We are now looking for you who know how to navigate in a complex international organization, where you take lead and the responsibility within your assignment. You have a university degree within the area of Chemistry, Chemical engineering, toxicology, Environmental science, or similar, and have experience from regulatory and product requirement/compliance-related work. You have knowledge in the main relevant regulations related to the specific area and you have knowledge in chemical risks with various materials.
As a communicator, you can reach out to experts and non-experts, in a clear and simple way. You are driven by a strong curiosity and have a desire to find better ways together with others, always with the business and our customers in focus. Since we are working in an international environment you need to be strong in communicating in English. Ability to work in a structured way is a pre-condition and of course share our values and vision to create a better everyday life for the many people.
To succeed in this the different roles you need to have as follows:
Product Requirement Specialist - Food-contact materials and products You have knowledge in, and preferably experience from, working with some of the main regulatory frameworks, such as the EU regulation EC No 1935/2004 and the related directives. Preferably we see that you have knowledge in chemical risks related to various materials, such as metal, paper, coatings and/or plastics.
Product Requirement Specialist - RoHS, chemicals in electronics. For this role you have knowledge in, and preferably experience from, working with the main regulatory framework RoHS, but potentially also REACH, CLP, TSCA and Proposition 65 etc. Preferably we see that you have knowledge in chemical risks related to various materials, plastics, metals, and coatings.
2 Product Requirement Specialists - General chemical requirements on materials You have knowledge in some of the main regulatory frameworks, such as REACH, CLP and /or TSCA and Proposition 65. Preferably we see that you have knowledge in chemical risks of some materials, for example PU foam, plastics, textile, metal, wood, and paper.



Additional information
Does this sound like your next challenge?
We look forward to receiving your application in English as soon as possible but not later than June 27th. The position is located in Älmhult, Sweden. If you have any questions about the process please contact People & Culture Recruiter Maria Fröberg Larsson, +46 766 190 996.