Team Manager

Company Description

Do you want to furnish the future with innovative solutions?

With us, you can feel at home in your work while sharing that feeling with millions of people around the world. We encourage you to stand up for yourself and others, creating an environment where everyone feels welcome. We invite you to open new doors, discover new possibilities, embrace mistakes, and grow from them. As a Team Manager, you’ll have many opportunities to try things you’ve never done before.

Inter IKEA Group brings together three core businesses: Franchise, Range and Supply. Together we work constantly to improve the IKEA offer and make it more accessible for the many people. IKEA 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.

Together, we create a workplace where everyone feels free to be themselves – to experiment, try new ways, and dare to ask, “What if…?” We believe in everyday personal growth and offer the opportunity to develop your career globally. At IKEA we have a vibrant culture where ideas are heard, where there is opportunity to learn new skills and where the goal always is "to create a better everyday life for the many people". We give down-to-earth, straightforward people the possibility to grow, both as individuals and in their professional roles. We offer this position in a fast paced, truly global environment with an endless supply of challenges and development opportunities.

Job Description

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We are on the journey to transform our digital capabilities, bringing core business processes, people, data & technology together - an enabler for IKEA to become an even better home furnishing company in the future. A journey that needs passionate people who embrace change and want to make a difference. If that sounds like you, come and join us. Together we can do great things.

Supply Chain Development (SCD) is one of the business units at IKEA Supply and we are on an exciting journey! By gathering the end-to-end supply chain development and innovation agenda into one organization, embedding management and development of processes and digital solutions into the business, we will meet 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. We are now looking for Team Manager within area of Supply Chain Planning Development within SCD. You will work closely with the Competence Hub Development Manager; support to cocreate and implement people strategy for the Hub.

As a Team Manager, you will mainly work with the following:

• Responsible for enabling preconditions for the team to perform their assignment according to our IKEA values and set business priorities
• Responsible for leading people to perform and deliver, continuously work with competence development, recruitment, and proactive succession within the area of responsibility.
• Responsible for preparing, supporting and enabling the implementation of common ways of working and collaborating with stakeholders within IKEA value chain.
• Contribute to identifying optimal pre-conditions for people in the business to perform in their assignments and deliver to our strategies and goals connected to the Capability area.
• Contribute to budgeting process by preparing initiated input on need of resources, development and investment or service needs
• Lead the team by example, coach and motivate co-workers.
• Responsible for recruitment, development, performance management, retention, allocation and succession plan for co-workers within assigned scope.
• Contributing to developing competences within the scope of responsibility: Identify needs and gaps and build competence plans to meet the short and long term business needs
• At any time, act as an ambassador of IKEA values and role model for fact-based business leadership.
• Taking on additional assignments based on capability area business needs.

Qualifications

What we’d like you to bring to the table

We expect you to have solid experience in supply chain as well as in technology, digitalization, and automation. You have strong proven leadership, comfortable in leading transformation in the unknown, are curious and great at building relationships with stakeholders and colleagues. As a person you appreciate collaborative spirit and how you lead with strong focus on people, process, data and technology.

To be successful in the position of a Team Manager we believe that you have:

• High motivation to lead people & secure competence development
• Knowledge and understanding of the IKEA processes and organisations.
• Strong knowledge of how technology, digitalization, and automation add value in supply chain business process management and development work.
• Strong knowledge of IKEA leadership and team dynamics
• Knowledge of the IKEA operating model; People, Process, Data & Technology
• Strong knowledge of the IKEA' value chain
• Good understanding of how your everyday work adds customer value by delivering results
• Experience in vendor and contract management
• Good knowledge of the agile mindset and methodology.
• A can-do entrepreneur mindset
• Fluent in English
• Proven experience in leading people towards highly performing individuals.

If the above is what you aspire and motivated by, we invite you to come join our team and be yourself with us!

Additional information

We look forward to receiving your cover letter and application in English. Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidate. This position can be based in Älmhult, Sweden and Pratteln, Switzerland.

We regret that we are unable to handle applications made by e-mail. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, but no later than 6 June 2025. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact People & Culture Specialist Katie Pettersson at katie.pettersson1@inter.ikea.com.