Solution Architect, Supply Chain Development

1 week ago

Älmhults Kommun, Sweden IKEA Supply Services Sweden AB Full time

Inter IKEA Group brings together three businesses: Retail Concept, Range and Supply. Together we work constantly to improve the IKEA home furnishing offer and make it more accessible for the many people. You will be part of IKEA Supply and the Supply Chain Development organisation. IKEA Supply is responsible for securing that the product offer is produced and delivered to our customers. We lead the supply agenda across many functions and work together with all business areas, different business units, but also retail markets to secure customer availability in all markets and sales channels at lowest total cost.

Together, we create a workplace where everyone feels free to be themselves – to experiment, try new ways, and dare to ask, "What if...?" We believe in everyday personal growth and offer the opportunity to develop your career globally. At IKEA we have a vibrant culture where ideas are heard, where there is opportunity to learn new skills and where the goal always is "to create a better everyday life for the many people". We give down-to-earth, straightforward people the possibility to grow, both as individuals and in their professional roles. We offer this position in a fast paced, truly global environment with an endless supply of challenges and development opportunities.

We are on the journey to transform our digital capabilities, bringing business processes, people, data & technology together - an enabler for IKEA to become an even better home furnishing company in the future. A journey that needs passionate people who embrace change and want to make a difference. If that sounds like you, come and join us. Together we can do great things.

Ikeas Food business have been on a transformation journey for many years to be more integrated into the overall IKEA business, organization and Way of working. On this journey we're doing some amazing things in IKEA Supply chain; therefore we need some amazing people – this position is not an exception.

Job Description

We are looking for a Solution Architect with an OverallM3Digital Product Area responsibility andwho will lead the overall architecture for the IKEA Food M3 platform and its surrounding applications that support the Food core processes within Supply Chain planning, operations, logistics and Wholesale/Finance. In this assignment you will have a key role for the success of the initiative securing that the platform will deliver on both the business needs and architecture goals.

More specifically, in this role you will be accountable for:

  • Lead and work the overall architecture and blueprints for the IKEA Food M3 platform and our surrounding applications, that sticks to standard without compromising the high degree of automation and specialization in our global value chain.
  • Responsible for Target Application Landscape in Digital Product Area
  • Creating overall solutions design, as well as recommend and provide architectural approvals.
  • Provide functional guidance and support the solution architects in the development of business needs
  • Cross functionally work closely together with peers across the totality of Inter IKEA and across IKEA to guide and identify deliverables for the Food Digital M3 platform.
  • Secure that architecture assessments and the deliverables are aligned with Inter IKEA Group of Architecture Principles, strategy, target Architecture, business Capabilities and roadmaps
  • Responsible for Digital Product Area architecture backlog items and contribute to definition of the epics in the tertial planning

Qualifications

We believe you are a strong leader able to inspire people towards clearly set objectives. We are looking for a visionary and pragmatic person with strong willpower. You are curious and able to build relationships both to business leaders as well as to architecture peers. You take lead and work together with Solution Architects and a community of Enterprise architects to pave the way for the Food M3 platform development.

We expect you to have a solid experience in Infor M3 and good knowledge of how to work with ERP/M3 architecture in a large-scale business. You should be able take lead and guide the project and development team on how to best use the Infor M3 platform capabilities to fulfil the business needs and how to integrate the solution in the larger IKEA context.

You enjoy building trustful relationships with colleagues, stakeholders and business partners. As a person you are appreciated for collaborative spirit and how you lead with strong focus on both process, platform and people.

To be successful in this job you have:

  • Solid and broad experience in the Infor M3 platform connected to the core processes we support.
  • Strong knowledge and experience of driving architecture work in relation to large scale ERP implementations in an integrated end-to-end landscape.
  • Good knowledge in IKEA Processes and Way of Working or similar experience from a large global Retailer and/or Wholesaler.
  • able to lead and facilitate design workshops , assessments, planning sessions i.e., demonstrate leadership experience in prioritizing and create a roadmap
  • Experience from integrated planning and agile Ways of working

In this role you will report to our Solution Area Manager for Food Digital Supply.

Additional information

If you have any questions about the role, please reach out to Daniel Bolin, IKEA Food Digital Supply Solution Area Manager,

This position is located in Malmö, Sweden. Please also note that we do only handle applications in English and no applications coming in by email. We look forward to receiving your application at the latest 14th of June, 2024.

You might have some questions about the recruitment process, and we are more than happy to answer those Feel free to connect with the People & Culture Leader Dan Gustafsson at


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