Product Requirement Engineer

at  IKEA

Job ID: R0009395
Date posted: 23/10/2024
Company description
Can you really reach out to the whole world, creating a better everyday life for the many people? In Älmhult, Sweden you can. Älmhult is home to IKEA of Sweden. Here the IKEA range is developed and made available to stores and customers all over the world. We are here to offer 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. That is our promise, and we do this every day with great passion and energy.
To cook and eat together is for many a way to share, not only a meal, but also to hang out together, share stories, traditions, discussions, and opinions. It’s a social activity, full of life and energy. Our goal is to support the many people in their everyday cooking and eating activities and deliver a wide range of products, designed for both cooking healthy in a sustainable way, and enjoying eating them together.
We are a team of about 50 colleagues who work across the Cooking & Eating business. Together we focus on developing an excellent cooking & eating offer to enable a healthy, sustainable, and enjoyable life around food. For the many people and always with the low price in mind.
We are now looking for a Product Requirement Engineer who can translate customer’s wishes into technical requirements. You will be responsible to identify and develop product requirements that will make products safe, loved by our customers and sellable on all our markets.
Job description
As Product Requirement Engineer you will work in the product development team as the requirement specialist. You will create strong relationship with Requirement development department as well as engineers from purchasing organization to secure understanding of the product requirements and successful implementation.
You will have good knowledge into IKEA specifications, production, standards, and test methods relevant for the product areas you are responsible for.

In this assignment your main responsibilities will be:

• Take part in product development and product improvement projects
• Develop product requirements for qualitative, sustainable, safe and functional products
• Develop durability and functional tests that resembles real life usage over the lifetime of the product
• Secure compliance for the range on all market
• Create product documentation
• Responsible to communicate technical requirements/test methods to stakeholders e.g. product development team, engineers from Purchasing organization and Test labs.

Qualification
You probably have a University Degree in engineering or similar experience together with a couple of years of experience from working with product development and/or product requirements. You are experienced with the ability to lead yourself, take great responsibility and drive initiatives from start to finish. Preferably you have experience working with food contact requirements.
You have good analytical skills and high ability to coordinate, lead and inspire others. You have a passion for sharing knowledge and the ability to explain complex matters in an easy way. You are good at creating your own network and at working in teams, making things happen by involving and engaging people. For this position we highly value great communication skills and the ability to lead yourself to make things happen.
You will be welcomed to a workplace with trust and support from leaders and colleagues and there will be expectations on you to perform and develop yourself and the business. You will be part of a team with smart and caring people who are very proud of what they do, and love to have a lot of fun!
More Information
The position is full-time and placed in Älmhult. We believe that your presence with the team and working majority of the time in the workplace is important
We look forward to receiving your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English latest the 6th of November 2024. 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 candidates.
For further information regarding the assignment, please contact Hiring Manager Mats Svensson on +46 728865132. If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact People & Culture Recruiter, Carolina on: carolina.reventberg2@inter.ikea.com

• Take part in product development and product improvement projects
• Develop product requirements for qualitative, sustainable, safe and functional products
• Develop durability and functional tests that resembles real life usage over the lifetime of the product
• Secure compliance for the range on all market
• Create product documentation
• Responsible to communicate technical requirements/test methods to stakeholders e.g. product development team, engineers from Purchasing organization and Test labs