Supply Chain Manager

In your role, you are responsible for leading and setting up supply chain team in both the Boards and Furniture units. Organizing and overseeing supply chain activities is a key aspect of your role, and you provide effective leadership and motivation to our dedicated employees.

You maintain regular communication with our customers and suppliers, ensuring smooth collaboration. Coordinating the procurement of primary materials for production is an important aspect of your role, ensuring the right quantity and quality. You also oversee the coordination of demand planning activities to effectively meet customer demands. Preparation of comprehensive documentation and reports for management, including sales evaluation, stock development, and material deliveries, is part of your responsibilities. You actively participate in the implementation of logistic and warehouse systems, ensuring compliance with other standards such as FSC and IWAY. Working closely with the production and quality departments, you ensure customer needs are met. You maintain control over compliance with storage and logistic standards. Active participation in the sales budget preparation process is expected from you. Collaborating with all departments of the company, you actively contribute to introducing new products.

• You should hold a Master's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration or a related field
• 10 years of proven experience in Supply Chain preferably in manufacturing
• You should possess strong leadership skills and the ability to train and develop people and  building the team
• You should have a solid understanding and experience of procurement,  production planning, warehousing, purchasing, and sales processes.
• You will be responsible for preparing  economic studies, business  analyses and forecasts and proposing effective solution, therefore strong analytical and problem solving skills are needed
• Effective management of input, output, and continuous controlling processes is expected from you.
• Excellent communication skills to engage all stakeholders

We welcome your application

Why to Join Us:

• Opportunity to take an active role in building one of the most competitive furniture clusters on the planet.
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
• Supportive and inclusive workplace culture.

Get ready to assemble something new! We look forward to receiving your application by September 30.

At IKEA, we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. You’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, or what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply. We believe that people’s different perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities make us better at understanding our customers’ dreams and needs. At IKEA we’re all working on the same project.