Program Leader, IKEA

IKEA

Location:
Sweden, Älmhult

Category:
Logistics

Contract Type:
Employment contract

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Job Description:

Are you passionate about driving large-scale change and shaping the future of global supply chains? Join us at IKEA as a Program Leader and lead one of our most strategic initiatives – transforming Sales and Supply Planning across our entire value chain. The program involves major investments and aims to realize significant uplifts in value through enhanced capabilities in people, process, data, and tools. This is a holistic role requiring strategic leadership, stakeholder engagement, and robust change management expertise.

Job Responsibility:

establish program organisation and overall work structure
lead and work closely together with the stream leaders for the three core streams as well as enabling streams
design and develop new ways of working, organisation optimization, new organizational capabilities and supporting technology to reach the target state for sales & supply planning
continue to refine and adjust business case
communicate and anchor direction among leadership and other stakeholders and manage overall progress, challenges, and dilemmas
develop roadmap for implementation and provide implementation support to line organisation
prepare receiving organisation to secure organizational readiness
responsible for transformation management in terms of managing timeline, budget, dependencies and stakeholders

Requirements:

10+ years of experience from large scale business development programs
long experience from leadership including program management, leading leaders
strong working knowledge of general business processes in sales & supply planning
experience of successfully leading, developing, and transforming businesses
experience managing operational or structural change within an organization
previous project / program leadership experience from transformations
strong knowhow from IKEA supply chain and specifically about sales & supply planning
experience from supply leadership, operations, innovation and/or business development

What we offer:

flexibility to work from home when relevant
inclusive work environment
commitment to life-long learning

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
August 23, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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