Supply planner, category plant based food

IKEA was founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad. Our first restaurant opened in 1959 - just one year after the first IKEA store in Älmhult. Today, we operate IKEA restaurants in more than 460 stores across more than 50 markets. Every year, our restaurants, bistro, and Swedish Food Market attract over 500 million guests with our iconic products like Swedish meatballs and hot dogs.  With plant balls that are also a part of the menu nowadays, we are bringing a modern taste of Sweden to the many people, worldwide.

At IKEA, we try to do things a little differently. We think differently, act differently, and work differently as well. We like to break things. Like rules. And then make things. Like music-playing lamps. And beds disguised as sofas. Even plant balls that help us look after our planet. It's all part of our vision - to create a better everyday life for the many. By 2030, we hope to help millions more look forward to going home.

We see our suppliers as partners and work to create long-term relationships with them, helping them to grow and become more efficient while achieving affordable sustainability.

In the Category Area Food, we lead the global purchasing agenda, material direction, responsible sourcing, and food safety and quality compliance agenda for the entire food range in IKEA. With over 170 colleagues located globally across Europe, North America, Asia, and other regions, we work closely with our supplier partners.

This is one of the newest categories and we are on the journey towards the glorious future so we will most welcome your start-up entrepreneurial mindset, ability to think out of the box, your experience with process improvements, your patience to deliver tasks in the sometimes unknown and imperfect reality that you will have power and willingness to consistently improve.

You will be a part of a Plant based Category which is part of Category Area Food, which works alongside both internal and external partners to offer the food served at all IKEA Restaurants, Bistros, and Swedish Food Markets.

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 food safety, production process and quality compliance and development. 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 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 regularly travels to the field in order to understand and solve issues firsthand and help with the implementation of action plans.

To be successful in this role, below competences are important for you.

• Knowledge of supply chain logistics including different restocking as well as a good understanding of capacity planning.

• A sense for detail: every data sheet must be accurate and understandable while you handle a large amount of varied work - like emails, phone calls, chats with people stopping by for a talk.

• You can artfully deal with people, using empathy and good communication within your micro-team and also in cooperation with suppliers and other stakeholders in the IKEA supply chain.

• Analytical skills that are necessary for working within complex IT systems, numerically demanding project orders, Excel documents.

The job location for this position is in Warsaw, Poland. Travelling is a part of the assignment since our Supply Planners work closely with our suppliers.

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. Please apply latest by November 30th.

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