Product engineering manager - order management

What you need to know

Hej! My name is Aravindhan, and I am privileged to lead the engineering teams within the Fulfilment & Core Services digital area at IKEA. I thought I would share why so many of us joined IKEA and why I hope you want to join as well:

• Our culture and values - Togetherness, Give and Take Responsibility, Different with a meaning, Cost Consciousness, caring for People and Planet, Renew and Improve, Simplicity and Lead by Example.
• Our vision to help more of the many people to have an affordable and better everyday life at home and be more convenient to where they are. At the same time, become truly people and planet positive.
• We are inspired by our past and are confident about who we are and why we do what we do. For sure, some of our assets are forever strengths - our vision, business idea, culture and values, our unique offer and our unique ways of meeting customers.
• At the same time, we need to undertake the challenge of transforming such a global iconic brand is breath taking - You can read about INGKA's '10 jobs in 3 years' https://www.ingka.com/what-we-do/ikea-retail/, 5 of them are underpinned by the amazing work we will do in our Digital Area Fulfilment & Core Services.
• Our DNA is 'Testing & Learning', which marries with our belief in the power of agile product focus.
• Our strong belief that diversity in teams delivers better thought through outcomes. We have a high focus on diversity. One example of this is that we have 50% male/female managers within IKEA and the commitment is to have this in every part of the organization.
• The flexible work life balance. Ingka has consistently ensured that our work doesn't interfere with having a great quality of life out of work - Ingka knows that when people are happy, they do their best work.
• The incredible people within Ingka are humble, supportive and absolutely committed to lead home-furnishing retail into the future and create a better life for more of the many people, by putting the customer at the heart of all we do.

WHAT WOULD WE ASK FROM YOU?

To have a relentless passion for technology to solve critical business problems and delivering amazing customer experience through Order Management capabilities.
To be able to build, coach & develop engineering leaders & teams at pace. To Inspire your engineering leaders and teams to build the highest standard of software that builds confidence with our stakeholders, operations and customers due to its excellence in agility and resilience.
To enjoy building your teams with a DevOps mentality to develop new, scalable, enterprise technology, able to run our global operations 24/7.
That you are passionate about our vison values - Values like togetherness, simplicity and lead by example are all a natural part of your everyday working life at IKEA. As a person you have great willpower and the ability to create enthusiasm around you, to dare challenge conventions and make mistakes. To have strong interdependent leadership skills, and that you are inclusive and humble.

What you'll be doing day to day

At Fulfilment & Core Services digital area, we build and run the technology that underpins our global 40+ billion Euro business:

• Designing and planning our vast fulfilment network in 30+ countries.
• Managing and delivering 50+ million orders per year which will double in next 3 years.
• Fulfil orders from 350+ stores and 50+ warehouses.
• Offering and executing services like home delivery, click & collect, assembly, installation etc. For our customers while working with 400+ service providers across the globe.

As Product Engineering Manager for Order Management, you will have the exciting challenge to

• To build and maintain software that delivers order management capabilities for various types of orders (Sales, Fulfilment, Replenishment, Transfer orders etc.)
• Build and manage engineering teams across our locations in Bangalore, Helsingborg and Amsterdam
• Join the amazing existing leadership team which includes the Product Domain Manager, Product Manager and a peer Product Engineering Manager.

Transform the current landscape into a modern technology stack which will:

• enable us to test and learn quickly to meet our customers' demands &
• provide a highly available, resilient & secure service.

Together as a team

We're the ones who make it possible for people to have a smarter life at home and a hassle-free and rewarding shopping experience. Together we work to find new digital solutions for every business need to help make IKEA a great and efficient place to work. We like to think of ourselves as innovative and modern, and we believe that nothing would actually work without us.

Apply now!

In this role you will report to the Senior Engineering Domain Manager (Aravindhan) for the Fulfilment & Core Services Digital Area and the role is based in Bangalore, India.
You might have some questions about the recruitment process and we are more than happy to answer those! Feel free to connect with aravindhan.raju@ingka.ikea.com or our recruiter lakshmi.nagaraja@ingka.ikea.com
Please note that we will be interviewing continuously. We look forward to hearing from you!