Digital Platform Leader – Supply Chain Planning Development within SCD

Do you have good communication skills embrace change highly adaptable self-driven leader capability to learn new skills and a team player

As Digital Platform Leader (DPL) you will be fulfilling the needs of the connected Products and also to ensure efficiency security and shared capabilities of a platform. If this is what you have been seeking continue reading and reflect in your application how you with your experience knowledge motivation and capabilities will contribute and grow into a digital platform leader working in an Agile environment.

As a DPL you will mainly work with following:

• Responsible to set the platform vision with a clear roadmap ensuring it aligns with digital product roadmap ambitions. 
• Responsible for overseeing the development implementation and maintenance of a software or technology platform
• Responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the platform. This includes monitoring performance managing user accounts and access and ensuring that the platform is running smoothly.
• Accountable for the platform backlog (build edit and maintain) and also to clearly communicate the backlog to products and other stakeholders.
• Accountable for platform prioritization based on needs from various products and release needs.
• Comply with relevant frameworks and standards.
• Responsible for the composition and operational functioning of the digital platform team
• Accountable for digital platform release plan communication and setting of expectations for delivery of new features and functionalities.
• Responsible for managing key stakeholder engagement (e.g. developers suppliers)
• Responsible for securing that the digital platforms are efficient and simple for the products and developers controlling the costs and giving input to the overall budget.
• Responsible to manage dependencies and blockers improving digital platform delivery capabilities.
• Gather insights to understand and empathize with the products and developers reality. 
• Identify and create measures of success to understand how the platform achieves desired outcomes.

You will be mainly working on a platform that supports Sales & Operational Planning Digital Products within Supply Chain Planning Development. Currently it will be supporting the IKEA home build application however we are looking to replace it with standard ERP application based on the business needs.

Qualifications :

We offer a challenging role in a constant changing and global environment you will be able to drive and strongly influence the future in the assigned Digital Products/Platforms.

To be successful in this role you need to have:

• Extensive knowledge of current and latest technology landscapes and how they can improve value for the developers.
• Extensive knowledge of relevant business context IKEA strategies processes and the digital landscape.
• Extensive knowledge of the market/area within which the digital platform will be deployed and used.
• Bring a data-driven approach to decision making both in day-to-day management and in making strategic trade-offs.
• Familiar with Agile principles and ways of working

Additional Information :

Does this sound like your next challenge

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 is based in lmhult Sweden.

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 10 June 2025. 

For more information about the position please contact Hiring Manager Digital Product Area Manager Srinivas Gajjala at . For questions regarding the recruitment process please contact People & Culture Specialist Katie Pettersson at .

We look forward to receiving your application.