Project Leader, Manufacturing Development, IKEA Industry

• Jobb-id: R0011656

• Datum inlagd: 09/05/2025

Company description


IKEA Industry, part of the Inter IKEA Group, is the world’s largest producer of wooden furniture and is an integrated part of the IKEA value chain. As an IKEA in-house manufacturing business, we create competitive advantages that move and challenge the total IKEA value chain. IKEA Industry has more than 30 production units, across 18 sites in 7 countries: Poland, Slovakia, Portugal, Sweden, Lithuania, China and Hungary. Our operations include sawmills, boards, furniture components and furniture production. IKEA culture and values shape everything we do. Not only do the IKEA values bring us together, they also help us to do business successfully.

Project Management Office (PMO) is a part of Manufacturing Development at IKEA Industry.

The PMO is a team of project leaders, with various assignments across IKEA Industry. We lead and support the portfolio of global development and deployment projects in the areas of digital, business processes, machinery and construction investments, sustainability and many others to support the factories.

Learn more about IKEA Industry here


Job description


We are looking for a Project Leader with testing capabilitites

In the role as project leader you will:

• Manage projects within set frames for scope, time, budget including oorganizing and leading people.
• Take responsibility of the project and deliver agreed result according to purpose, goals and scope of the project.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to secure a successful delivery of the project
• Communicate with key resources and secure awareness, support, ownership, and alignment.

The role will also include leading test in few of our bigger projects. We see the importance of securing test management as a natural part of developing and implementing new solutions.

As a test leader you will:

• Lead the planning and execution of test strategy (including testing approach, testing scenarios, conditions and expected results, test scripts and testing control sheets).
• Contribute to all required testing deliverables including testing approach, testing scenarios, conditions and expected results, test scripts and testing control sheets.
• Establish definition and delivery on testing requirements through engaging and collaboration with all relevant stakeholders such as for example solution owners, architects, process leads.

Qualification


WHO YOU ARE
We are looking for you who are enthusiastic about developing and implementing new solutions. You have good leadership skills, are structured and driven. Preferably, you have experience from working with Operational Technology (OT), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM ) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and tools.

You understand the IKEA value chain, IKEA culture and have experience from working in an international and culturally diverse work environment.

We think you will be motivated by this position if you have...

• Experience in leading projects and knowledge of project management processes.
• Good leadership skills and are structured and driven.
• Energised by working with and through people.
• A practical mind set and like to do things hands on.
• Driven by delivering results and business impact.
• Comfortable with uncertainty and change with a drive to seek clarity.
• Energised by sharing knowledge.
• Strong drive for accuracy.

More Information


Location for this position is in Malmö, or any of our IKEA Industry units, in our 6 countries (Slovakia, Sweden, Lithuania, China, Portugal, Hungary or Poland).

The position requires global travel (+50 travel days yearly).

QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT? LET'S CONNECT!

Do you feel challenged and inspired by what you have seen in this job ad? If “yes!” we appreciate your application as soon as possible, but no later than 22st of May.

For job specific questions please contact Viktoria Schultzen, . For questions about the recruitment process, please contact our P&C Business Partner .

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