One brand, many companies, and many, many people that's us in a nutshell. Spread all over the world, we have a passion for home furnishing and an inspiring shared vision: to create a better everyday life for the many people. This, together with our straightforward business idea, shared values, and a culture based on the spirit of togetherness, guides us in everything we do.
To offer 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. To meet the needs of our customers we have a unique business model and value chain. It includes product development, design, supply, manufacture and sales. And of course, it starts and ends with our customers.
Purchasing Development: As Purchasing Development, we purchase the materials and the production capacity to produce both home furnishing products and food. We have more than 1,200 co-workers global wide and operates in 27 locations, this includes 6 category areas and Wood Supply & Forestry.
IKEA Industry: IKEA Industry is the world's largest producer of wooden furniture and is an integrated part of the IKEA value chain. As IKEA's own furniture manufacturer our role is to offer a unique advantage for IKEA as a world leader in home furnishing. IKEA Industry has more than 30 production units, across 18 sites in 7 countries.
In IKEA we have developed our own Lean production concept called IPS (IKEA Production System). The IKEA Production System secure best practices in performance management, operations and way of working in factories and in larger organizations.
We are currently looking for a
Manufacturing Developer to be based out of Bangalore, India.
(The Manufacturing Developer is a role that ideally is within the IKEA Industry. However, due to business needs, this role will remain within the Purchasing Development team and shall be part of New Business team).
Job Description
The Lean/IPS teams mission is to support and strengthen IKEA Industry factories and IKEA suppliers factories belonging to different Category Areas, with continuous improvements by coaching and challenging, using our lean/IPS concept as base. We work close to our suppliers, having common goals and plans to optimize our value chain, resulting in better products at lower costs.
We need a
Manufacturing Developer to join our team and assist suppliers
specializing in wood materials, by contributing on optimizing and scaling up furniture production facilities.
This is an exciting challenge for You who wants to...
- Lead Manufacturing Assessments evaluating the IKEA supplier's manufacturing performance, systems and competence to produce IKEA products with as less waste as possible and to create manufacturing improvement plans.
- Lead improvements and develop efficient production processes, from incoming components to finished goods and shipment and enable total lower cost, improve quality, sustainability and/or deliveries.
- Drive shop-floor manufacturing improvements projects utilizing IKEA Production System concept methods and tools (Lean manufacturing).
- Perform Kaizen activities at suppliers, securing that right preconditions are in place.
- Implement Process control to support Quality Agenda and lower costs.
- Develop and implement Lean concept within the different purchasing categories through leading competence initiatives and secure knowledge sharing to suppliers and IKEA co-workers in Lean Manufacturing.
- Facilitate focused improvement learning activities and in general contribute to the IPS concept, which is the IKEA way at looking upon Lean. You will also lead, coordinate and work closely with local Lean navigators team.
Qualifications
We are looking for you who are enthusiastic about developing and implementing new ways of working within production and business processes. You are driven by achieving result in collaboration with others and you believe that leadership is a mindset visible in behaviors and actions. You are constantly looking for synergies, support collective learning and continuous improvements. You encourage people around you to achieve better together while nurturing cost-consciousness, reducing overlaps with down to earth approach. You build strong relationships with your stakeholders.
We think you will be motivated by this position if You...
- Have strong knowledge on Wooden material categories used in Furniture and who can explore local/regional wood species
- Are a Lean expert with several years of experience in implementing and managing successful lean projects or been a manager within manufacturing.
- Have a proven capability to drive improvement activities, delivering savings and develop lean thinking/concept to all levels of the organization.
- Have an education at Bachelor level or equivalent.
- Have passion for people and are a good communicator with a high drive and analytical skills.
- Have strong informal leadership and collaborative approach.
- Are passionate about IKEA values, our vision and business idea.
- Enjoy working in a dynamic work environment.
- Are a good communicator in English, both verbal and written.
- Are hands on in your way of working with a clear and structured approach towards your stakeholders.
Additional Information
This position is based in Bangalore, India and you will report to the New Business manager at SASA for 3-year period; following which the role will report into IPS Supplier Development Manager (who is part of IKEA Industry). We offer mobility support for this role.
Extensive travelling is a part of the assignment.
Sounds interesting
Please send us your application CV and letter of motivation. We really want to get to know you, so make sure you tell us why you would be a good fit for this role.
Please note that the selection process will take place continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidate. So don't delay, please send us your application as soon as possible
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Please note that we don't accept application through email. All applications must be submitted through
Smart Recruiters system.
If you have questions related to recruitment, please write to Recruitment India.
Please note that Inter-IKEA co-workers will be prioritised in this recruitment.
We Are An Equal Opportunity Employer
At IKEA, we value diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are committed to providing coworkers with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We encourage individualism and invite you to come join our team and be yourself with us! We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristic protected by law. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need.
