IKEA Supply is responsible for securing that the IKEA product offer is produced and delivered to customers. Within IKEA Supply, Supply Chain Development brings together capability development across the value chain and supports how we evolve the way we operate Manage Goods Flow End-to-End.
Strategy & Business Process Management (SBPM) turns IKEA strategic direction into action. We contribute to the IKEA strategy creation, drive insights, facilitate business development, and guide the processes and capabilities for Manage Goods Flow End-to-End. By ensuring clear priorities, governing roadmaps and enabling execution, we connect strategic direction with measurable business outcomes and a sustainable process and digital landscape.
Although the team has its organisational home at supply, the Center of expertise (CoE) for Identification and Standardisation is working across organisations and functions including range, supply and retail. With the purpose of providing a holistic and long-term stewardship of identification standards, ensuring they remain robust, future‑ready, and globally relevant and scalable.
At IKEA, identification and standardisation are strategic capabilities that enable trusted data, connected business processes, traceability, regulatory compliance, and seamless information exchange across the value chain. Core capabilities for IKEAs business and digital transformation.
As an Identification and Standardisation Leader, you will be part of IKEA's Centre of Expertise for Identification and Standardisation, guiding and enabling organisations, teams, and initiatives to realise business value through a common approach to identification, master data, traceability, and interoperability. By connecting business needs with global standards and industry best practices, you will help create the foundation for, trusted data, connected processes, efficiency and automatization, regulatory readiness, and business and digital transformation across IKEA
Together with a team of subject matter experts, you will help IKEA establish and evolve a common approach to how products, assets, locations, parties, transactions, and events are identified and connected across business processes, digital products, platforms, and external ecosystems.
The Centre of Expertise works across organisations and functions to ensure that global standards are translated into practical business value. Through expert guidance, governance, and collaboration, the team enables business development, digital transformation, operational excellence, and future regulatory readiness across IKEA's global value chain.
In this role, you will work closely with business leaders, product teams, architects, data specialists, suppliers, and external partners to ensure that identification standards and traceability capabilities are understood, adopted, and implemented in ways that create long-term value for IKEA.
Is this the right challenge for you?
You are a strategic and collaborative leader with deep expertise in identification, standards, master data, and traceability. You enjoy working across organisational boundaries and helping others navigate complexity through clear guidance, strong relationships, and a pragmatic approach.
You understand that standards create value only when they are widely understood, adopted, and integrated into everyday business practices.
We always recruit based on values, competence, potential, and diversity. 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.
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 will be based in Älmhult, 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 3 Nov. 2026.
For more information about the position, please contact Hiring Manager Identification and Standardisation Manager Sandra Mckay Ferrario at sandra.mckay@inter.ikea.com. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact People & Culture Specialist Katie Pettersson at katie.pettersson2@inter.ikea.com.
At IKEA we believe that we’re better when we’re physically together for collaboration, dialogues and conversations. We believe in the power of human interactions; the informal chats, the energy, belonging and creativity generated by people being in the same place. Our approach is that we spend majority of our time in the IKEA workplace and with flexibility to work from home when relevant.
ONE BRAND, MANY COMPANIES AND MANY, MANY PEOPLE
We’re a diverse group of down-to-earth, straightforward people with a passion for home furnishing. We come from all over the world, but we share an inspiring vision: “to create a better everyday life for the many people”.
How we realise this vision is based on our shared humanistic values. These values are the foundation of our work and our inclusive, open and honest culture where you can be yourself. Our culture is based on the spirit of togetherness, enthusiasm and fun. And we’re always looking for people who share our positive attitude and values.
IKEA unites thousands of co-workers and hundreds of companies with different owners, all over the world, organised in a franchise system. It’s one brand but it reaches millions of hearts and homes.
ABOUT INTER IKEA GROUP
The purpose of Inter IKEA Group is to secure continuous improvement, development, expansion and a long life of the IKEA Concept. It has three core businesses: Franchise, Range & Supply and Industry.
• Inter IKEA Systems B.V. is the owner of the IKEA Concept and the worldwide IKEA franchisor. The assignment is to continuously develop the IKEA Concept and to ensure its successful implementation in existing and new markets. 11 different groups of companies own and operate IKEA sales channels under franchise agreements with Inter IKEA Systems B.V. A large group of franchisees are owned & operated by INGKA Group. Inter IKEA Systems B.V. also assigns different IKEA companies to develop range, supply and communication.
• IKEA Range & Supply is responsible for developing and supplying the global IKEA range. This means working with the whole value chain: from the needs and wants of the many people, through product development and the sourcing of raw materials, to a product’s end-of-life.
• IKEA Industry is the largest producer of wooden furniture in the world and manufactures wood-based furniture for the IKEA product range. We can offer a wide variety of exciting roles and assignments - from product development to production and from distribution and store design to interior design. And much, much more! And we’re always looking for people who have the desire to learn and grow professionally right along with our business.
We can offer a wide variety of exciting roles and assignments - from product development to production and from distribution and store design to interior design. And much, much more! And we’re always looking for people who have the desire to learn and grow professionally right along with our business.
