Supply Planner

We have a certain way of doing things. Hopefully you do too.

Purchasing Operations Area North Europe, POA NE, is now looking for a Supply Planner to our Paper team in Älmhult, Sweden.

A Supply Planner is the link between IKEA 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. A Supply Planner within Trading works in a material-oriented team, in close co-operation with the Business Developer and the Technician.

As a Supply Planner some of your main tasks will be to

- Ensure agreed service level by monitoring and taking required action on delivery performance.
- All the time work with information visibility by assuring that systems are updated with correct parameters (information).
- Communicating update requests to responsible functions within the Supply Chain including suppliers.
- Work closely with IKEA suppliers to provide them with relevant information, training, working methods and help them develop to the required performance levels.
- Follow-up, analyze and take actions to continuously improve supplier performance
- Daily troubleshooting and at the same time find solutions to avoid similar future problems

Is this your next challenge?
We think you have relevant university degree or equivalent knowledge from working experience. You have a strong knowledge of Supply Chain cost drivers and of logistics including different replenishment- and delivery solutions. Your English is fluent both written and spoken.

As a person you have strong communication and negotiating skills. You are analytical and are able to analyze data and information. You are used to work extensively in computer systems. Further you are driven and enjoy working for new solutions and to optimize the existing ones. In return we can offer you an exciting and challenging position within an international company. Many opportunities to further develop for the right person. We hope you would like to contribute with you unique competence for IKEA?s future.

If you have any questions regarding the position please contact Business Developing Manager Markus Rickberg +46 476 81000. If you have questions concerning the recruitment process, please contact HR Service Centre at +46 (0)476- 58 75 00.

Welcome with your application!

Co-workers within Purchasing lead an exciting life! The mission is to develop business with suppliers in order to deliver IKEA products to our stores located around the world. The goal is to meet the price, quality and quantity expectations of our customers. In our Purchasing Operations Area we are working with suppliers in northern Europe and have offices in Älmhult, Kaunas and Dortmund.