ID de la oferta: REF19986D

Fecha de publicación: 16/12/2024

About us

At IKEA, we believe that we are better when we are physically together for collaboration, dialogues, and conversations. We believe in the power of human interactions, the informal chats, the energy, belonging, and creativity generated by people being in the same place. Our approach is that we spend most of our time in the IKEA workplace, with the flexibility to work from home.

Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. We do this by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing and food products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them.

About the assignment

Supply Planner 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.

-This position is one-year contract role.

• Good understanding of IKEA Business and IKEA Business model for growth.
• Good understanding of how you every day work adds customer value by delivering to Democratic Design.
• Deep Understanding of IKEA Purchasing Manual and good understanding of IKEA Purchasing Development Process (PDP), IKEA Purchasing Year Cycle and the Governance Structure.
• Understanding of IKEA Supplier Development Process (SDP), new product development and knowledge around how supply planner contributes to them.
• Knowledge of supplier capabilities, material, production flow, capacity planning and available capacities.
• Understanding IKEA Supply Chain organization and processes within Planning and Delivery.
• Knowledge of supply chain cost drivers from raw material to customer and logistic tools such as: different replenishment methods, delivery solutions and working with lead times.
•  Capability to delivery results through involving and engaging stakeholders within IKEA and Supplier.
• Able to translate the Category Plan into logistics solutions; always act with the Customer, Supplier, Total IKEA and Total Cost Development in mind.
• Capability to transfer knowledge and working methods to suppliers.
• Capability to perform complex analysis, and draw conclusions to support the right business decisions and implementations.

If the above appeals to you, you might be the one we are looking for! The selection process will take place continuously, so please send in your application in English as soon as possible. We are looking forward to receiving your application. For questions about the recruitment process, please contact People & Culture Recruiter Flora Zheng.