Supply Strategy Leader - Pratteln, Schweiz - Ikea

    Ikea
    Ikea Pratteln, Schweiz

    vor 1 Woche

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    Job description

    As Strategy Leader you are leading the successful development, implementation and follow up of the IKEA Supply strategy together with stakeholders across the value chain and franchise integral part in securing an impactful roadmap to support the strategy, in line with cross value chain prioritization, supporting the complete organization with Supply strategy content expertise, as needed.

    In this role you will:

  • Work with insights experts to design and execute powerful learning plans, articulate areas for strategic focus and drive the exploration of new spaces for business growth
  • Effectively lead, execute and hold together the IKEA Supply strategy content creation and updates by defining and leading the appropriate process and including relevant content experts from across the value chain.
  • Alignment of content with other strategy leaders across the organization and manage dependencies and interfaces between different strategy parts across IKEA.
  • Define appropriate strategy goals, aligned with business and process performance, and together with stakeholders secure a follow up approach that is easy to use, scalable and iteratively measuring progress of implementation of strategy
  • Contribute to the development of capability roadmaps and a total strategic roadmap to deliver the movements within the strategy.

    • You act as ambassador for the supply strategy and effectively drive and manage stakeholders and communication across functions and organisations, building relationships and engaging in relevant networks within and outside IKEA.

    Qualification

    We are looking for you who have high level strategic thinking, problem solving and analytical capabilities and is passionate about the IKEA vision and the IKEA direction. You are motivated by shaping the the future of IKEAs supply chain and delivering business results and targets through clear direction and approach.

    You combine your capability to collaborate and work in process engaging different IKEA competences in the network with your ability to apply outside-in perspective and encourage innovative ideas to drive strategic development, putting the user in the centre of Supply strategy development.

    To succeed in this role you come with extensive knwoeldge of the supply business and supply chain operations and you have driven senior strategy development work. You enjoy working in a fast-paced, global, multicultural and changing environment and staying up-to-date with emerging trends.

    You have

  • Experience from Supply leadership, operations, innovation and/or business development.
  • A proven track record of leading strategic development (typically large and complex) from idea through implementation, with strong evidence of global business impact in global companies/consultancies/franchise/retail.
  • Recent experience from the IKEA value chain or similar experience.
  • Proven track record of interdependent leadership, leading business agendas across IKEA in a collaborative way and delivering results through others.
  • Visionary leadership with the ability to make complex tasks and processes understood and actionable.
  • Strong ability to understand the business needs for the supply strategy, and make on-going decisions based on whats best for the organisation, even if that means challenging senior stakeholders on critical success factors.