Scd - Solution Owner Dimensions, Weights &

**Company description**:

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IKEA is one of the world's leading home furnishing companies. Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. We do this by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them.

**IKEA Core Business 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.

**Supply Chain Development (SCD)** is one of the business units in Core Business Supply and we are on an exciting journey By gathering the end-to-end supply chain development and innovation agenda into one organization, embedding management and development of processes and digital solutions into the business, we will meet the future with the right competences and business capabilities. By this we will also create the preconditions to a world class supply chain that enable IKEA to efficiently respond to the ever-changing customer needs.

The SCD Intralogistics organisation is responsible to establish, lead, support and develop logistics solutions for the various IKEA units that have a logístical and fulfilment component, including the development and innovation agenda of intralogistics at IKEA global. In practical terms, Intralogistics shall lead and educate in creating concepts, processes and solutions for IKEA Handling and Storage as well as to act as centre of expertise for all establishments of logistics units around the globe. The organisation is in strong lead towards a more mechanical and automated goods handling.

**Job description**
Solution Area Handling & Storage as part of the IKEA Supply Organisation connects internal IT specialists and external Service Partners to develop, operate and maintain need oriented, innovative IT solutions, kept up to date - both from technical and functional perspective. Furthermore, we globally support a huge number of Supply Chain Projects to make IKEA available for the many.

As additional support for our team in Dortmund we are looking for a **Solution Owner** for our internal Dimensioning, Weight & Packaging (DWP) solution, providing packaging data of the IKEA articles to our internal systems.

As Solution Owner DWP:

- You are accountable for all aspects of Solution delivery for our packaging base data system according to established ways of working
- You drive continuous improvements of the Solution in regards to functionality, cost and quality
- You identify and support user needs
- You create and manage budget
- You are responsible for Solution compliance according to relevant rules and standards
- You are responsible for release management incl. functional, technical and life cycle management related changes
- You manage business development activities
- You steer our external software partner

**Qualification**
How you fit to IKEA:

- You have solid knowledge of end-to-end Solution or Application Management and an understanding of related Information Technology (e.g. servers, databases)
- You have knowledge and skills in software development, requirement management, test methods and tools
- You have experiences in release
- and project management with the ability to estimate costs and complexity and plan activities
- You have experience in vendor
- and contract management
- You have excellent moderation and organizational skills and are able to interact and align with stakeholders from different functional and regional areas.
- International travelling is no problem for you, and you strive for working in IKEA’s multicultural team.

**More Information**:

- Does this sound like your next challenge?_

We offer you a variety of tasks with a fun, friendly, non-hierarchical, open and international team atmosphere. Moreover, you have a wide range of education and self-development possibilities. We also hope you want to contribute with your unique competence to IKEAs future growth

**Sounds interesting?**

Please note that this position is based in Dortmund, Germany.

In some cases recruitment processes may take time, so we kindly ask you to be patient in this regard.