Supply Planner, CA Wood, Pigment & Veneer

at  IKEA

Job ID: R0010586
Date posted: 31/01/2025
Company description
Welcome to Category Area Wood, the home of four wood related categories. With about 250 co-workers and 200 suppliers across the world, we create a strong wood supply chain for more sustainable and affordable IKEA products for the many.
Wood is an essential material and important part of the IKEA heritage. We can proudly say that around 60% of our sales in IKEA are connected to wood-based products. In Category Area Wood, we procure and source wood-based articles that our many customers enjoy amongst which are iconic IKEA families such as BILLY, PAX, IVAR, KALLAX, POÄNG and our kitchen ranges.
Our culture is entrepreneurial and based on trust. We have the space to lead, explore and learn from mistakes.
In Pigment & Veneer we are passionate about creating and supplying desirable, high-quality, and sustainable furniture that are affordable to the many and will complement our customer’s home with timeless styles (materials, shapes and colors).
Job description

You will work in a small, 3-member micro-team with a Business Developer, who negotiates prices and take care of the overall commercial relation with the Supplier, and a Production Engineer who takes care about product safety, production process and quality compliance and development. As part of the annual action plan that your team will compile, you will be responsible for improving the logistics process in order to ethically reduce costs in the overall IKEA supply chain. You will also perform:

• Planning – elaboration of forecasts for yearly quarters drawn from global partners who cover the entire product category, matching of global need forecasts with the production capacities of suppliers
• Operation – order management, handling problems along the supply chain, monitoring shipping capacity and the smooth running of the entire logistics process, regular communication with suppliers (emails, calls), meetings with management and the team
• Developing partnerships with suppliers – the micro-team regularly travels to the field in order to understand and solve issues firsthand and help with the implementation of action plans.

Qualification

To be successful in this role, below competences are important for you.

• Knowledge of supply chain logistics including different restocking as well as a good understanding of capacity planning.
• A sense for detail: every data sheet must be accurate and understandable while you handle a large amount of varied work – like emails, phone calls, chats with people stopping by for a talk.
• You can artfully deal with people, using empathy and good communication within your micro-team and also in cooperation with suppliers and other stakeholders in the IKEA supply chain.
• Analytical skills that are necessary for working within complex IT systems, numerically demanding project orders, Excel documents.

More Information
The job location for this position is in Warsaw, Poland.
Travelling is a part of the assignment since our Supply Planners work closely with our suppliers.
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. Please apply latest by February 28th.
Please note that we don’t accept application through email

You will work in a small, 3-member micro-team with a Business Developer, who negotiates prices and take care of the overall commercial relation with the Supplier, and a Production Engineer who takes care about product safety, production process and quality compliance and development. As part of the annual action plan that your team will compile, you will be responsible for improving the logistics process in order to ethically reduce costs in the overall IKEA supply chain. You will also perform:

• Planning – elaboration of forecasts for yearly quarters drawn from global partners who cover the entire product category, matching of global need forecasts with the production capacities of suppliers
• Operation – order management, handling problems along the supply chain, monitoring shipping capacity and the smooth running of the entire logistics process, regular communication with suppliers (emails, calls), meetings with management and the team
• Developing partnerships with suppliers – the micro-team regularly travels to the field in order to understand and solve issues firsthand and help with the implementation of action plans

To be successful in this role, below competences are important for you.

• Knowledge of supply chain logistics including different restocking as well as a good understanding of capacity planning.
• A sense for detail: every data sheet must be accurate and understandable while you handle a large amount of varied work – like emails, phone calls, chats with people stopping by for a talk.
• You can artfully deal with people, using empathy and good communication within your micro-team and also in cooperation with suppliers and other stakeholders in the IKEA supply chain.
• Analytical skills that are necessary for working within complex IT systems, numerically demanding project orders, Excel documents