Delivery Planner - Food

Company Description

IKEA offers well-designed, functional home furnishing and food products at prices so low that as many people as possible can afford them. The role of IKEA Purchasing & Logistics is to buy, produce and distribute the IKEA range at the lowest total cost, making high quality available to the customer under good social and environmental conditions.

Category Food Logistics Services is a part of Supply Chain Operations (SCO) organization with its 700 co-workers connects our customers with IKEA products in a simple, affordable, and sustainable way. We deliver excellent transport and logistic solutions today, tomorrow and over time by optimizing replenishment solutions, defining physical goods flow capacity needs, managing the goods flow, sourcing & developing transport & logistics capacities and leading & securing Supply Quality.

We contribute to customer satisfaction through securing customer perceived availability, delivering lowest cost over time, leading towards sustainability, and ensuring the right quality for all services.

In Category Food Logistics Services, we are passionate about food!

We source, procure, and operate cold chain transportation, warehousing and logistics services for IKEA Food. And we are on an existing journey, building IKEA Food One Supply Chain for the future by centralizing sourcing and supply chain operations.

If you love the idea of joining a new business in Inter-IKEA, you are not afraid to venture in the unknown and are motivated by co-creation and collaboration with a diverse range of stakeholders - we would love to get to know you!

We are now looking for a new Delivery Planner to join our Category Food Logistics Services Food team located in Älmhult!

Job Description

In Category Food Logistics Services, we source, procure and operate cold chain transportation, warehousing and logistics services for IKEA Food. To support our growing business development agenda, we are currently looking for a Delivery Planner to join our team in Älmhult. As Delivery Planner you will be responsible to coordinate the goods flow throughout external service providers (carriers, warehouses, third party logistics etc.), meeting the needs of business and our customers today and in the future. Through your work you will contribute to the IKEA value chain that creates better products and services at lower total costs to reach more of the many customers.

Your tasks will include:

• Plan, monitor and secure the goods flow through different distribution centers.
• Work in close cooperation with internal and external stakeholders to secure on-time delivery and solve operational deviations as well as optimizing filling rate and equipment utilization.
• Monitor shipments and in case of deviations take necessary action and inform concerned stakeholders to secure availability for our customers.
• Suggest potential improvements for delivery planning and execution according to our Global Working Methods.

Support in Investigation of claim issues in the supply chain.

Qualifications

Your knowledge, skills and experiences:

To be successful in this position we believe that you have extensive knowledge of logistics capabilities, order planning and capacity planning. You will take lead in ensuring planning of orders and prioritize to fulfill customers’ needs at the lowest possible landed cost. We believe you have plenty of energy and curiosity to learn and dare to challenge people around you.

We believe that you have:

• A relevant education within e.g. supply chain management, Engineering, Economics etc.
• A few years of relevant working experience within food, logistics, manufacturing, or equivalent industries with good knowledge of the transport industry
• The ability to engage stakeholders to co-create, collaborate and deliver results
• A proactive mindset and are solution oriented.
• Fluency in oral and written English.

If you on top of this have the ability to learn quickly and know how to adapt to change as well as organize your work while juggling multiple tasks, we really want to talk to you!

Additional information

Does this sound like you? Yes? Then, why not apply?

Please note that the position is based in Älmhult.

If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Shirley Zhang, Business Development Manager at shirley.zhang@inter.ikea.com. If you have questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Samuel Karlsson, People & Culture Specialist at Samuel.Karlsson@inter.ikea.com.

We are looking forward to receiving your CV and cover letter in English before the 25th of September Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, so submit your application as soon as possible.

We look forward to receiving your application!