Supply Planner - Talent Pool - Wood

Company Description
Welcome to Category Area Wood, the home of five wood related categories. With about 300 co-workers and 200 suppliers across the world, we create a strong wood supply chain for more sustainable and affordable IKEA products for the many.
Wood is an essential material and important part of the IKEA heritage. We can proudly say that around 60% of our sales in IKEA are connected to wood-based products. In Category Area Wood, we procure and source wood-based articles that our many customers enjoy amongst which are iconic IKEA families such as BILLY, PAX, IVAR, KALLAX, POÄNG and our kitchen ranges.
Our culture is entrepreneurial and based on trust. We have the space to lead, explore and learn from mistakes.
Are you ready to be part of a journey towards affordable sustainability for our customers?
Job Description
For this position we have a preferred candidate!
We are looking for the people with knowledge of supplier capabilities, material, production flow, capacity planning. You have the ability to take the leadership to ensure supplier has goods ready in time and in full in order to fulfil customers’ need at lowest possible landed cost. You are able to translate the Category Plan into logistics solutions and always keep Total IKEA and Total Cost Development in mind.


• Minimal 2-3 years of planning and supplier management field experience;
• Fluent oral English and good communicator;
• Proactive and solution oriented;
• Ability to navigate with multiple stakeholders;
• Well-organized in multiple task assigned within given time frame.
• Quick learner and good flexibility to adapt to change.
Qualifications
As a Supply Planner you will be responsible for a variety of responsibilities as below:
• Secure operational capacities by ensuring high quality of capacity data from suppliers and by working continuously towards exceptions together with Need Planner and Supplier in a proactive manner.
• Contribute to tactical capacity planning based on supplier performance on agreed capacity
• Update and secure correct business set-up information in all relevant systems. Furthermore work with systems and reports, to proactively detect and act on possible deviations from goal.
• Prepare suppliers for best replenishment and delivery solutions by continuously maintaining & developing supplier delivery performance and sender lead-times.
• Contribute to identifying best logistical offer, furthermore implement, maintain and review by having customer and total cost in mind.
• Actively contribute in the planning and execution of the best set-up for range changes at supplier, constraints periods and activities.
• Continuously follow-up, analyse and take action to improve supplier delivery performance and ensure goods are shipped in time from suppliers.
• Secure correct availability information from supplier to IKEA Retail in such quality that it can be for the benefit of customers.
• Develop and maintain suppliers’ logistic competence towards becoming responsible on their own performance through: working closely with suppliers, running Supplier Development Projects and providing them relevant trainings & working methods.
• Contribute to supplier development by taking a lead from logistic perspective and engage relevant competence in IKEA and at Supplier to assess supplier logistics capability and running supplier development projects.
Besides normal job assignment, this opening will undertakes some different expectations as normal Supply Planner role in category.
• You will initiate a quicker start and engagement with business contribution.
• You will hold an employment with a sort of trainee set-up where you get the possibility to interact and work with different departments during and after your onboarding.
Additional information
This position will be based in Älmhult, Sweden For this assignment we will not be able to offer relocation support, and will therefore prioritise candidates that are located in Sweden.
Please apply in English before 3rd of March, 2022.
The selection process will take place continuously, so please send in your application in English as soon as possible. Please note that we don’t accept applications through email.
If you have questions regarding the role please contact Fredrik Liwander (People & Culture Generalist) at fredrik.liwander@inter.ikea.com