Solution Owner

  • Full-time

Company Description

Solution Owner Food Store Operation – BUSINESS AREA FOOD

IKEA Range & Supply, Business Area Food is looking for a Solution Owner who will join our team supporting the expanding IKEA Food business.

IKEA Food is on a digitalization journey, building and transforming a completely new digital eco system for the food business. This includes IT solutions to support product creation, range assortment, product information channels, supply chain solutions and much more. 

Job Description

As a Solution Owner Food Store Operations you will work in the heart of the exciting journey of IKEA Food´s digitalization. 
Do you want to join us?

Your assignment as a Solution Owner Food Store Operations is to:

  • Within Digital Operations, a part of Range & Supply Business Area Food, you will strongly contribute to that the users have a relevant, user friendly and reliable solution that helps them achieve their business objectives. 
  • Be accountable for solution business development, release management, life cycle management and the operation of the solution(s), business continuity and business support. 
  • Manage key stakeholder expectations 
  • Lead continuous improvement of the solution(s).
  • Be responsible to create and maintain a solution roadmap 
  • Manage budget for the assigned solution(s) and optimize internal processes
  • Lead/participate in governance forums; 
  1. For the Solution (e.g. Change Control Boards)
  2. With the Supplier(s) (Software and/or Application Maintenance and Support vendors)
  • Secure established working methods for the solution(s).
  • Responsible for solution compliance with rules and standards (e.g. information security) and legal/regulatory requirements as well as adherence to relevant delivery process standards.
  • Secure competence development and training related to your solutions
  • Secure and maintain Super User network

The Solution Owner has the best overall knowledge within IKEA of the solution and the domain it supports. The solution is called FSO (Food Store Operation) and will have many user in the retail landscape.

The solution one of two solutions that is currently developed in our largest food project IFSS. You will start your assignment well in advance of hand over from the project and are expected to be a significantly involved as receiving stakeholder.

Qualifications

We offer a challenging role in a constant changing and global environment, you will be able to drive and strongly influence IKEA Food´s future using Information Technology. 
To be able to succeed in the role you must have competence that will contribute in this role but your personality and mindset is also very important. 

You need to have at least one (or many) significant experiences as: 

  • Worked at a IKEA store or a IKEA service office
  • Worked as a Solution Owner at IKEA
  • Managed a global retail IT solution outside IKEA

It is preferred if you have:

  • Experience or in-depth knowledge in store logistic operation 
  • Experience or in-depth knowledge in food industry

You are passionate in influencing and leader other people i.e. working through others.  You are enthusiastic, driven, structured and determined, and act as a role model for the IKEA values. You have excellent communication skills and the ability to build trustful relationships. You have also a desire to share knowledge and develop people and competences for a better IKEA. You will network with people both internally and externally.

Additional Information

The Position is located in our central Malmö offices, 2 minutes from Malmö C.
The digital organisation in IKEA Business Area Food, a part of IKEA of Sweden, deliver expertise in business development as well as securing the running business. We empower our co-workers, customers and suppliers with the right solutions to optimise the customer experience and contribute to a growing IKEA. We consists of approximately 360 co-workers based in different legal units globally all across Range & Supply. We have our main hubs in Malmö, Älmhult, Helsingborg, Dortmund and Pratteln. 

IKEA Food, a part of IKEA of Sweden, develop and provide food, sold and served in IKEA Restaurants, Swedish Food Markets and Bistro´s in 48 markets. Among our Retail Partners there are 18.000 food co-workers serving 640 million food visitors in the IKEA stores around the world

Does this sound like your next challenge? We look forward to receiving your application in English as soon as possible. Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process if we find the right candidate. 

For questions regarding the job, please contact Recruitment Specialist Jonas Levin at +46 72 886 53 84

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