Digital Product Leader (m/f/d) Supply Chain Development

Company Description

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IKEA is one of the world's leading home furnishing companies. 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 products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them.

IKEA Core Business Supply is responsible for securing that the product offer is produced and delivered to our customers. We lead the supply agenda across many functions and work together with all business areas, different business units, but also retail markets to secure customer availability in all markets and sales channels at lowest total cost.

Supply Chain Development (SCD) is one of the business units in Core Business Supply and we are on an exciting journey! By gathering the end-to-end supply chain development and innovation agenda into one organization, embedding management and development of processes and digital solutions into the business, we will meet the future with the right competences and business capabilities. By this we will also create the preconditions to a world class supply chain that enable IKEA to efficiently respond to the ever-changing customer needs.

Within the SCD Area Intralogistics Development organisation we are responsible to break it down and to establish, lead, support and develop logistics solutions for the various IKEA units that have a logistical and fulfilment component.

Job Description

As part of the SCD Area Intralogistics Development organisation’s assignment we connect internal IT specialists and external Service Partners to develop, operate and maintain need oriented, innovative IT solutions, kept up to date – both from technical and functional perspective. Furthermore, we globally support a huge number of Supply Chain Projects to make IKEA available for the many.

As a Digital Product Leader you are:

• Accountable for managing one or more assigned digital product(s), securing running business, development, support/service performance.
• Accountable for the digital product vision and roadmap, supporting relevant process and capability goals, including life-cycle management and compliance to frameworks and standards.
• Accountable for budget, prioritization, clear and transparent goals, and plans for the digital product(s).
• Responsible to secure that the digital product(s) fulfils well defined business and user needs, including related learning offer.
• Responsible to define the digital product scope, ways of working, and performance follow-up.
• Responsible to lead both digital product development and discovery work to explore new opportunities, control cost, manage risks and dependencies, and to maximize business value.
• Responsible for managing stakeholder engagement, e.g. with suppliers, super users, or user community, depending on digital product(s).
• Responsible to identify and create measures of success to understand how the product achieves business outcomes.
• Responsible to secure that the digital product team has access to relevant insights and maintains a deep understanding of both business context and user’s reality.
• Contribute to adoption of best practice in digital product management and continually benchmark against industry standards.

Qualifications

You have a strong interest in supply chain and intralogistics as well as in technology, digitalization, and automation. You have a passion for planning and leading in a global assignment and to drive and develop the business and yourself to deliver excellent results. Moreover, you have a desire to collaborate and interact with various stakeholders.

You are a match for IKEA and this role when you:

• Have extensive knowledge in digital product development, agile development practices and ways of working.
• Have extensive knowledge in the relevant business context, IKEA business processes, strategies, and digital landscape.
• Have extensive knowledge in how to develop and lead a high performing autonomous team with a clear digital product vision, and working with relevant disciplines such as discovery, UX, and data driven decision making.
• Have the ability to lead value based and develop business and people through IKEA leadership capabilities.
• Have the ability to develop and lead a highly effective empowered digital product team focusing on customer/user insights, data-informed decisions, and impactful outcomes/value.
• Have the ability to, in an excellent way, communicate, facilitate, listen actively, build networks, and inspire others.
• Have the ability to stimulate creative ideas and to identify and act on opportunities for improvement.
• Are passionate about creating value and digital products that users love.
• Are highly motivated by leading business and people together creating optimal preconditions for performance and growth.
• Are motivated by continuous improvement and learning.
• Are motivated to work in an environment of constant change.
• Are always committed to and guided by the IKEA Culture & Values.
• Have a proven digital product management background combined with people leadership experience.
• Have experience in setting clear objectives and steering all involved people towards achieving results.
• Have strong and proven skills in communication, stakeholder management, and conflict resolution.
• Have 5+ years in software development industry working with agile and DevOps.
• Have experience working in a global retail organization and/or IKEA value chain preferred.

Degree in computer science, business administration, engineering or similar is preferred.

Additional Information

We offer you a position in a fast paced, truly global environment where development and constantly being on the way is in focus! And as the world’s leader at life at home, you have exceptional opportunities to grow together with us in an international network with future oriented projects and technical innovations. At IKEA, we value diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are committed to providing coworkers with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We encourage individualism and invite you to come join our team and be yourself with us!

The position is based in Dortmund, Germany and will require some travelling.

Submit your application online and in English via our recruitment system SmartRecruiters (please note that applications sent via e-mail will not be accepted) latest on the 20.12.2024. If you have any questions about the actual recruitment process, please send a message to our recruiting team via SmartRecruiters and we will come back to you. In case of questions connected to the role, please reach out to hiring manager Udo Hilbk (udo.hilbk@inter.ikea.com).

At IKEA, we continuously look for better ways of working, following our vision to create a better everyday life for the many people. It is in our culture to work together and to be open, straightforward, and inclusive. We welcome all applications. Our culture and values are based on equal opportunities, and we are happy to consider applications from individuals with disabilities.

We are looking forward to hearing from you soon!