Hej Platform Manager! Ready to help shape the future with smart, innovative solutions?
At IKEA, you can feel at home while making a difference for millions. We’re a place where everyone is welcome, encouraged to explore new tech, try new things, and grow from mistakes. As our Platform Manager, you’ll have the chance to stretch your skills, experiment and work in new ways.
We are transforming the Technology and Platform organisation to build a modern and scalable technology foundation for Inter IKEA. To make this shift possible, we need an organisation that is fully aligned with our Operating Model: one that works with a strong product‑ and platform‑thinking mindset and is ready to take full accountability from strategy to operations.
We’re looking for a Platform Manager who wants to solve meaningful, real‑world challenges that help make life at home better for the many. Join us on our journey as we strengthen and evolve our technology platforms and digital services to enable safe, reliable, and sustainable experiences across IKEA.
As Platform Manager for Private Cloud & Data Center, you lead the team responsible for a core part of IKEA’s digital foundation. You don't just manage infrastructure; you lead the evolution of our data centers into a modern, Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) model. You take full end-to-end accountability for the vision, strategy, and roadmap of our private cloud, ensuring it acts as a high-performing and seamless "as-a-service" enabler for the entire organization.
A big part of the role is leading the full lifecycle of the platforms you own. This includes making technology decisions, managing financial governance, and driving continuous improvement. You will lead modernisation initiatives across our private cloud and data center landscape. Including cloud‑native approaches and integrated solutions that strengthen scalability and resilience. Staying close to market trends keeps your strategy future‑ready and relevant.
Collaboration is essential. You will work closely across technology and platform networks, enterprise architecture, and business stakeholders to ensure platform capabilities meet real business needs. Bringing people together around shared roadmaps, common tools and aligned ways of working is key. You will also manage supplier relationships, ensuring contracts, governance and delivery follow IKEA’s ways of working, while coordinating dependencies across units to build consistency and understanding of our platform landscape.
As a leader, you will grow high‑performing teams and nurture an innovative, learning‑oriented mindset. Competence development, succession planning, and strong technical stewardship are central to the role. You will foster good practices in DevOps and automation and support an excellent developer experience so teams can deliver faster and with greater confidence. Through your leadership, our private cloud and data center platforms will remain reliable, modern, and ready for the many people we serve.
To be successful in this role, the following knowledge, skills and experiences would be valuable:
Above all, to thrive at IKEA, you should lead with our values and enjoy working in a culture built on togetherness, simplicity, cost-consciousness, and a drive to always find better ways.
At IKEA, we think and work differently. We challenge old patterns and create new solutions, whether that’s a music-playing lamp or plant-based food that’s better for the planet. Our vision is simple: to create a better everyday life for the many people.
In Technology and Platform, we support the whole organisation by providing reliable technology and digital platforms that are easy to use and built for the future. By working closely with others across IKEA, we turn technology into real value and support ongoing transformation.
This is a full-time position located Malmö. The role reports into the Platform Area Manager – Core Infra and Compute Platforms and belongs to the Technology and Platform area within Operations Management. It is an enabling function with the core assignment to lead, develop, and maintain the common foundation for how Inter IKEA works across the value chain. if you would like to know more about the role, please connect with hiring manager Susanne Bengtsson (susanne.bengtsson@inter.ikea.com), or if you have questions about the recruitment process, please connect with recruiter Calvin Blyth (calvin.blyth2@inter.ikea.com)
Interested? Submit your CV and let us know why you would be a good fit for this role, in English, by the 7th of October.
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.
