Hej Solution Owner,

Do you want to furnish the future with innovative solutions?

Join us in opening new doors, exploring bold tech possibilities, embracing mistakes, and growing from them.

IKEA consist of many companies, all operating under one brand. IKEA Industry, part of the Inter IKEA Group, is a world-leading producer of wooden furniture and an integrated part of the IKEA value chain. IKEA Industry has ~15,000 co-workers in more than 30 production units across 18 sites in 7 countries. We have sawmills, board, furniture components and furniture production. 

If you are a team player who takes ownership, likes to collaborate, build relationships across organizations, challenge yourself and others as well as enjoy mentoring and supporting others you will contribute well to our team.

From me as manager you can expect clear framework and space to thrive.

Your new job

We’re looking for a curious Solution Owner for our Source process, who wants to solve complex, real world problems to make life at our factories easier and our ways of working more effectively. You’ll secure that our solutions provide the capabilities that the business needs - now and in the future - by aligning requirements with digital strategies and clear solution roadmaps. Your area of responsibility will cover applications for inbound flow, supplier integration and transport booking – all which are integrated with our ERP system M3. You will work closely with process development teams, site representatives and other Solution Owners to develop, implement and support solutions based on our standard platforms. Currently we are in the final phase of our project of moving M3 to Cloud.

On a typical day, you will:

• Be accountable for the end-to-end functionality, direction, roadmap and lifecycle of your solutions, ensuring they contribute to business capabilities and stay synchronized with process roadmaps
• Lead and coordinate the development and operation of your solutions to ensure high quality in our standardized ways of working, translating end-user demands into solution enhancements that improve process effectiveness combined with required availability and reduced operational cost
• Secure and align to processes to fully utilize and benefit of running operations in cloud
• Run and grow competence networks, actively suggest and coach users on efficient application usage and good ways of working by providing training/communication material
• Ensure cost consciousness and scalable, maintainable solutions
• Manage vendors and partners by coordinating license, maintenance, support & service contracts and securing solution support in line with agreed SLAs
• Collaborate across IT/OT with architects, super users, information security and other peers in a global manufacturing context

What we’d like you to bring to the table

The role as a Solution Owner requires you to:

• Be experienced and knowledgeable in operating Cloud ERP, ideally M3 and Infor OS
• Bring 5+ years’ experience from an international and/or manufacturing organization
• communicate confidently in English, are skilled in working in complex organisations, with excellent stakeholder management abilities by building trust at all levels
• Bring energy and curiosity, dare to constructively challenge current ways of working. You lead change with clarity, integrity and a can-do mind set.
• Regularly find better ways and enable change, turning ambiguity into action with a clear “this is possible” approach

Be yourself, a Solution Owner, and more!

Inter IKEA Group is the group of companies that connects IKEA franchisees with range development and suppliers and aligns the overall IKEA strategic direction. Every day, we strive to develop, produce and sell products and services that are affordable and accessible to everyone. With us, you contribute to building a democratic brand and workplace that has a positive impact on both the planet and people's lives. Your health, wellbeing and development matter most to us, and our benefits are designed with you in mind. Make us the home of your career.

We welcome your application

We look forward to receiving your application by 4th march. This role is based in our office in, Malmö, Sweden, and global travel is part of the job.

At IKEA, we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. If you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process, just let us know.

Questions?

For role specific questions contact hiring manager Carin Sjöqvist, Enterprise Solution Manager, [email protected]. For recruitment process questions contact P&C Leader Jenny Schüttman [email protected].