Requirement & Compliance Framework Specialist

Company description

Are you curious about requirements, want to contribute to IKEA compliance status and want to develop business and people? Then this job might be for you!

In Range Operations we create optimal preconditions for the business and people to design, develop and manage the IKEA range offer in a connected and optimized IKEA value chain - to deliver growth and enable low cost. Specialist Functions, being one of the departments in Range Operations, host several assignments connected to specialists. We monitor and develop requirements, offer test capacity to our suppliers and act as a toolbox for early product development in our development lab and in physical and digital prototyping. We are a group of passionate leaders that want to develop people and business in a complex environment.

Now we are taking the next step towards our ambition to take a more proactive role in forming the compliance agenda and are therefore looking for aRequirement & Compliance Framework Specialist, reporting to the Requirement & Compliance Framework Manager. You will be a vital part in steering and guiding important and early activities in IKEA that will shape our future compliance.

Interested?

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Job description

What you do in this role:

• Responsible for ensuring that cases and topics that are reported in the requirement handling system are being assessed, distributed, and followed up.
• Responsible for securing that requirements and regulations are assessed in regard to: high business impact, capability uplifts, data points, definitions, and further distributed and communicated.
• Responsible for identifying and escalating cases at an early stage that will have a big impact on IKEA, and ensure engagement and ownership together with capability development when there are identified gaps.
• Responsible for ensuring complete coverage of requirement monitoring across IKEA's current range for all types of requirements and products.
• Responsible for maintaining a network of pre-defined stakeholders (PRIO Groups and individual stakeholders) that is used to create clarity in the ownership of requirements within the organization.
• Responsible for handling deviations towards implemented requirements and ensuring that the cases are followed up on.
• Responsible for supporting the organization with performance follow-up to established performance indicators.
• Responsible for following up on the performance with external stakeholders on their reporting obligations towards IKEA's current and future product range.
• Responsible for ensuring that there is education and training in place and that these are offered to the users using the different system applications where there is a business ownership.

Qualification

What you bring:

• Energy and engagement in topics that carry a significant business value, able to act with a sense of urgency if required.
• Able to navigate in complex topics and a large, international organization.
• Detailed-oriented, thorough, and able to engage with stakeholders in an efficient manner.
• Ability to lead in the unknown and find solutions, on the way.
• Experience in cooperation with different stakeholders within the value chain.
• A strong drive to find creative ways to develop good enabling solutions together with others.
• Collaborative approach to problem solving.
• Desire to deliver business results through your own work, and engaging and motivating others.
• Ability to give and take responsibility, prioritize and make decisions.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills through active listening, coaching, and facilitating. You communicate in a clear, structured, and honest way and make complex situations simple and understandable.

More Information

This is a permanent role based in Älmhult.We strongly believe in the meeting and developing together in personal meetings; meaning that the majority of the time is always spend working from our office.

Please send in your application in English no later than6 May 2025. If you have any questions about the role or the process, please contact Martin Nilsson Lind, or the recruiter Bence Denes.