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Hej Platform Engineering Leader – Supply Chain Planning Development Area,

Do you want to continue creating a better life at home – and for yourself?

With us, you can feel at home in your work while continuing to grow and develop within IKEA.
We encourage you to stand up for yourself and others, explore new perspectives, and learn from both successes and mistakes.
We invite you to open new doors, build on your experience, and challenge yourself in new ways.

We are now looking for a Platform Engineering Leader to help us evolve our supply chain planning capabilities and ensure our digital platform can continuously adapt to changing business needs.

Job Description

As a Platform Engineering Leader within the Supply Chain Planning Development Area, you will play a key role in shaping, evolving and enabling the platform ecosystem around our core planning capabilities.

You are accountable for ensuring that our platform:

• Works reliably and efficiently in daily operations
• Enables fast, high-quality planning decisions
• Evolves continuously with business and technology changes
• Balances vendor capabilities with internal platform development

You will guide the platform team in making the right technical and architectural choices, while ensuring strong alignment with business outcomes.

While you will not be hands-on in all technical implementation, you will be responsible for clarity, direction and decision-making in an environment with high complexity and ambiguity.

You will collaborate closely with:

• Digital Product Area leadership
• Product, platform and engineering teams
• Business stakeholders within supply chain planning
• External suppliers and technology partners

You report to Competence Hub Development Manager, and work in close collaboration with architecture and engineering peers across IKEA.

On a typical day, you will:

• Set clear priorities and direction for the platform based on business needs
• Make decisions in ambiguity (e.g.
  build vs reuse, speed vs sustainability)
• Ensure reliable data flows and integrations across the planning ecosystem
• Work closely with engineers, architects and product teams to guide solutions
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand needs and challenges
• Engage with external suppliers to align on capabilities and trade-offs
• Translate business needs into technical direction and technical complexity into business value
• Communicate decisions clearly by explaining value, trade-offs, risks and expected outcomes to different audiences
• Create clarity and alignment across teams by adapting communication to engineers, business stakeholders, leaders and suppliers
• Coach and support engineers, improving both technical thinking and communication
• Continuously adapt and evolve the platform as business and technology change

Qualifications

What we’d like you to bring

• Experience working with platforms, architecture, or complex digital systems
• Good understanding of data, integration and system ecosystems
• Experience working with SaaS-based or externally provided solutions
• Ability to make decisions in complex and uncertain situations and move work forward
• Strong judgement in balancing short-term needs with long-term sustainability
• Ability to see the big picture across systems, data and processes
• Solid understanding of what to build vs what to reuse or leverage externally
• Strong ability to communicate and create clarity on technical concepts in a clear and value-focused way, translating complexity into business impact, trade-offs and outcomes for a wide range of audiences, including team members, stakeholders and suppliers
• Ability to create clarity, explain trade-offs, and build alignment across teams

Be yourself, a Platform Engineering Leader – Supply Chain Planning Development Area, and more

At IKEA, we believe that leadership is everyone’s responsibility.
You will:

• Inspire and clarify direction
• Enable others to succeed
• Build strong relationships across teams
• Contribute to a collaborative and inclusive environment

Inter IKEA Group connects IKEA franchisees with range development and suppliers and ensures alignment of the overall IKEA strategic direction.

Additional information

We always recruit based on values, competence, potential and diversity.
We will first consider co-workers employed at Inter IKEA Group impacted by organizational changes.
For this specific recruitment priority will be given to impacted co-workers in IKEA Core Business Supply provided competence requirements are met for the role.

We look forward to receiving your application in English.
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.
This position can be based in Älmhult, Sweden or Pratteln, Switzerland.
We regret that we are unable to handle applications made by e-mail.
We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, but no later than 31 May.
2026.

For more information about the position, please contact Hiring Manager Competence Hub Development Manager Stephanie Soong at sukmei.soong@inter.ikea.com.
For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact People & Culture Specialist Katie Pettersson at katie.pettersson2@inter.ikea.com.

At IKEA we believe that we’re better when we’re 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 majority of our time in the IKEA workplace and with flexibility to work from home when relevant.