Supply Planner - Category Area Food

Please note that this position is a 12 months Contract Position with us at IKEA.

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IKEA Food develops and provides the food sold and served in all IKEA Restaurants, Bistro´s, Swedish Food Markets and the IKEA co-worker restaurants. IKEA Food has over 400 restaurants in 53 markets and every year 650 million guests are enjoying the IKEA Food.  

Co-workers within Category Area Food lead an exciting life! The mission is to develop business with suppliers in order to deliver Food products to our stores located around the world. The goal is to meet the price, quality and quantity expectations of our customers. IKEA Food coworkers are working with suppliers globally and have offices across Europe, North America, Asia, and other regions. We work closely with our suppliers to create long-term relations, help them to grow, and become more efficient while achieving affordable and sustainable products. 

We are right now looking for a new Supply Planner for Category Area Food – Almhult, Sweden!  

As a Supply Planner you will work in a 3 member micro – team with a Business Developer and a Production Engineer. You will be responsible for:  

• Secure operational and tactical capacity planning by ensuring high quality of capacity data from suppliers and by working continuously towards exceptions together with Need Planner and Supplier in a proactive manner.  
• Prepare suppliers for best replenishment and develop supplier delivery performance and sender lead-times.  
• Contribute to identifying the best logistical offer, furthermore implement, maintain and review by having a customer and total cost in mind.  
• Actively contribute in the planning and execution of the best set-up for range changes at supplier, constraints periods and activities.  
• Continuously follow-up system reports, analyze and take action to improve supplier delivery performance and possible deviations from goals ensuring goods are shipped on time from suppliers  
• Develop and maintain suppliers’ logistic competence towards becoming responsible for their own performance through working closely with suppliers, running Supplier Development Projects and providing them relevant training & working methods.  
• Contribute to supplier development and business contingency planning by taking a lead from the logistic perspective and engage relevant competence in IKEA and at Supplier to assess supplier logistics capability and running supplier development projects.  

We are looking for people with knowledge of supplier capabilities, material, production flow, capacity planning. You have the ability to take the lead to ensure supplier has goods ready in time and in full in order to fulfil customers’ needs at the lowest possible landed cost. You are able to translate the Category Plan into logistics solutions and always keep Total IKEA and Total Cost Development in mind.   

Additionally, we also see that you have/you are: 

• 2+ years working experience in logistic, supply chain area.  
• Good understand of supply chain flow  
• Well-organized in multiple tasks assigned within the given time frame  
• Project coordinating ability with structural thinking, and analytic skill  
• Proactive and solution-oriented, ability to navigate with multiple stakeholders  
• Quick learner and good flexibility to adapt to change  
• Fluent in English and a both writing and speaking  
• Knowing IKEA business will be a plus  

Sounds interesting?  

Note that this position will be located in Älmhult, Sweden. Send us your application in English – CV and motivation letter – no later than April 3, 2026. Please note that we will be reviewing applications and interviewing continuously. 

If you have any questions regarding the position, please reach out to 1. Business Developer and interviewer Lara Drak Alsebai ([email protected]) or 2. hiring manager Rickard Malmström ([email protected]).  

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please reach out to Sarah Assem ([email protected]) 

We look forward to receiving your application!