Platform Area Manager
Ikea It AB / Datajobb / Helsingborg
2025-09-08
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Hej! We are on a journey to transform our digital capabilities, bringing core business processes, people, data, and technology together. This transformation is an enabler for IKEA to become an even better home furnishing retailer in the future. We need passionate people who embrace change, dare to question, and want to make a difference. If that sounds like you, come and join us. Together we can do great things!
About the Area:
We foster an extended ecosystem that drives excellence in all aspects of our digital deliveries. Our mission is to secure optimisation and standardisation of platforms, services, products and processes when connected to an external ecosystem, ensuring compliance with the applicable rules, laws, and standards. We create value for IKEA through sustainable practices and expertise, enhancing the overall integrity and efficiency of our operations.
We set the digital agenda to keep IKEA leading in an uncertain and fast-moving environment. We drive the development, provision and operation of our digital products and services using new and existing technology and agile delivery methods to deliver at pace. At the same time, we provide a home for digital skills to both develop and extend the technical, people and business skills needed to ensure continuous development and growth of our digital capability.
The Opportunity:
Join our dynamic unit as a Platform Area Manager. In this critical role, you will take accountability of the direct Commercial aspect, giving directional guidance to the rest of Group Digital, dealing with needs from other Ingka legal entities.
You will be accountable for maintaining and further develop a high-quality technology service for the services and products that are bought by the different Inter IKEA organizations and also other legal entities within Ingka.
Utilising both new and existing technologies and agile delivery methods, you will drive the digital agenda for the Product responsibility that sits with the unit, ensuring IKEA remains at the forefront of a rapidly evolving environment.
As a Platform Area Manager, your key responsibilities will include:
• Developing and implementing the platform roadmap, decomposing platform functionality, and decommissioning.
• Operating and maintaining a highly reliable and stable platform.
• Balancing the need to implement the platform roadmap while ensuring platform functionality and satisfying the ongoing needs of the.
• Managing performance of all platform-related infrastructure.
• Managing stakeholders across teams and functions to reach agreement on conflicting priorities.
• Ensuring teams understand the overall direction, vision, delivery process, and responsibilities for initiatives.
• Driving consistency in practice, process, toolset, and architecture within platform management.
• Leading, coaching, and developing team members, promoting best practices in technical architecture and benchmarking against industry standards.
• Working across initiatives within INGKA Group, steering solutions towards the correct architecture.
What You Have to Offer:
You are a passionate Platform Area Manager with substantial experience in platform development and operations. You have a strong background in digital technology and a keen understanding of modern data architectures. Your expertise includes working in complex and challenging environments. You know the importance of working according to agreed processes and can easily see potential improvement. As a person, you can take ownership and make effective decisions. Furthermore, you are delivery focused with great attention to detail and a willingness to resolve issues. You have extensive stakeholder management skills. In times of multiple, potentially conflicting needs, you can plan and prioritise the needs at the same time. We believe dealing effectively, being good with ambiguity, and changing priorities are other capabilities of yours. You are a problem solver with outstanding troubleshooting and analysis abilities. Moreover, you demonstrate key IKEA leadership skills, with the ability and credibility to lead and guide.
You are:
• Driven by responsibility and ownership of outcomes.
• Organised and thrive in both structured and dynamic environments.
• Excelling in global, complex settings and adept at simplifying and prioritising to support strategic and operational goals.
• Energised by IKEA's core values and committed to continuous improvement.
• To be successful in this role, the following knowledge, skills, and experiences will be valuable:
• Extensive experience in formulating strategic directions from corporate directions and directives given in a multitude of strategies within the greater IKEA frameworks.
• Extensive knowledge of the cost drivers in systems delivery and operations and the commercial consequences of the technical decisions made
• Extensive written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage and communicate with senior business leaders and Technology Leadership
• Extensive knowledge of IKEA's corporate identity, core values, and vision.
• Strong knowledge of technology trends.
• Strong knowledge of the Franchise system that we operate within.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise digital development and technical architecture disciplines.
• Experience in managing the operations and ongoing maintenance of core systems/solutions.
• Strong documented leadership skills.
• Knowledge of IKEA way of working and the connected IKEA value chain.
• Experience in running and operating core systems/platforms.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Outstanding troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
• Demonstrates strong IKEA leadership skills.
• Ability to lead in times of change and uncertainty.
• Actively acquires new knowledge and champions new methods and processes.
More Information: This is a full-time role. This role sits in Digital Services, Supplier & Compliance Manager and reports to the MD of IKEA IT AB. This role is located in Helsingborg/Älmhult.
Please send your application - CV - in English and tell us why you would be a good fit. We look forward to hearing from you!
If you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process, just let us know.
Så ansöker du Sista dag att ansöka är 2025-09-17
E-post:
rosie.geraghty@ingka.com Omfattning Detta är ett heltidsjobb.
Arbetsgivare Ikea It AB (org.nr 556322-9540)
Rönnowsgatan 8 (
visa karta)
252 25 HELSINGBORG
Jobbnummer 9497827