Product Developer - RA Seating

Job Description

Do you want to Develop Seating products with a focus on Furniture Textiles, to improve life at home for the many people with small wallets?

Are you a little obsessed with life at home and how to solve people´s needs, how to best utilize our material and production capabilities to reach the lowest price?

Are you a true team player who sees possibilities and have a hands-on approach?

Do you say why, why not and what if…

We are looking for a new Product Design Developer to Range Area Seating. 

As a Product Developer (PD) at IKEA of Sweden, you lead the product development from idea to a final product, ready to meet our customers. Together with a multifunctional team of specialists, you will secure that our products have the IKEA identity and fulfil all the five dimensions of Democratic Design. You will lead the digital transformation within Furniture Fabric Design. With digital tools and as part of the Fabric team in RA Seating you will contribute to different product development projects and processes. You interpret people’s needs and dreams into IKEA products of today and tomorrow and you are constantly striving to utilize all the capabilities throughout our value chain to reach the lowest price. To deliver on time and within budget are both priorities in this role. You use your imagination and entrepreneurship to find great solutions for people´s needs, and thereby generate growth through a sustainable business.

The areas of responsibility of RA Seating Furniture Fabric portfolio including: 

• News developments for Furniture fabric portfolio 

• News developments of Furniture fabrics supporting Sofas, Sofa beds & Armchairs 

• News development of running range cover updates 

• Developing Furniture fabrics for IKEA+ Covers 

Qualifications 

You get energy from our vision to create a better everyday life for the many people built on deep knowledge about life at home and customer needs of Textile. Therefore, you´re having a documented background and knowledge in Textile construction and Design. Experience from working with furniture fabrics is a plus, as well as the experience of the use of the CAD tool Arahne. You have a curious and courageous mind set and an urge to continuously improve, change and influence. You are driven by making things better and at the same time create what we have not done before. You do this by leaning back on your ability to lead and inspire long term direction and strategy from a Furniture fabric perspective. When you spot a great idea, you know how to inspire people and create a good collaboration with your team and people across an organisation that delivers a good result - because you have done it before.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Experience in product and business development

• Experience from leading creative processes and bringing different functions together

• Good understanding of IKEA identity and Democratic Design

• Ability to go from knowledge and insights, via imagination, to make it happen

• Good understanding of IKEAs total value chain

• As you are going to work in an international context, you are fluent in English, both verbal and in written.

Additional information 

If you have any questions regarding the position, you are welcome to contact Hiring Manager, Malin Ljungström, [email protected]. If you have questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruiter, Jonas Levin at [email protected].

We look forward to receiving your application in English, at the latest November 22nd. Please note that we will be working with continuingly selection and will be interviewing continuously