SASEA - VN - SUPPLY PLANNER, CAT MPFG CARBON STEEL

One brand, many companies, and many, many people – that’s us in a nutshell. Spread all over the world, we have a passion for home furnishing and an inspiring shared vision: to create a better everyday life for the many people. This, together with our straightforward business idea, shared values, and a culture based on the spirit of togetherness, guides us in everything we do.

At IKEA, we see things a little differently. We onboard our suppliers as partners with whom we create long term relationships. We want them to grow with us, become more efficient and achieve lower prices.

About the Job

You will work in a small, 3-member micro-team with a Business Developer, who negotiates prices and take care of the overall commercial relation with the supplier, and a Production Engineer who takes care about production process and quality. As part of the annual action plan that your team will compile, you will be responsible for improving the logistics process in order to ethically reduce production costs in the overall IKEA supply chain. You will also perform:

• Planning – elaboration of forecasts for yearly quarters drawn from global partners who cover the entire product category, matching of global need forecasts with the production capacities of suppliers

• Operation – order management, handling problems along the supply chain, monitoring shipping capacity and the smooth running of the entire logistics process, regular communication with suppliers (emails, calls), meetings with management and the team

• Developing partnerships with suppliers – the micro-team will travel by needs to the field in order to understand and solve issues firsthand and help with the implementation of action plans

Experience in Supply Chain & Planning, S&OP and logistics.

Deep knowledge of supplier capabilities, material, production flow,  production processes, constraints, yield, and available capacities.

Sense of detail and capability of working with processes, routines & discipline & data accuracy & risk identification and scenario planning.

Strong desire to seek logistics development and cost out opportunities and make it happen.

Capability to deliver results through involving and engaging stakeholders with trust and partnerships.

Communicates clearly, professionally, and assertively.

This position will be based in Ho Chi Minh.

The selection process will take place continuously, so please send in your application in English as soon as possible but latest 22 Mar 2026.