Job ID: 307312
Date posted: 06/02/2026
Who you are We believe that you are a strong, people-focused leader who thrives in a fast-paced, high-volume environment. You are motivated by creating an excellent customer and co-worker experience while ensuring efficiency, safety, and sustainability in everything you do.
To be successful in this role, you have:
• A university degree in Economics, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of leadership experience in logistics, retail, distribution, or a similar field.
• Strong knowledge of customer fulfilment operations, supply chain methods, and end-to-end processes.
• Proven ability to lead and inspire teams in a changing environment with a clear commercial focus.
• Analytical skills to understand budgets, costs, and key performance indicators.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to build relationships, collaborate across functions, and coach others.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
• A passion for the IKEA vision, culture, and values, with the drive to deliver sustainable and customer-focused results.
Your responsibilities As a Fulfilment Operations Manager, you will lead the daily running of the fulfilment unit operations, ensuring a safe, efficient, and customer-focused process at the lowest possible cost. In this role, you will:
• Lead, coach, and develop the Fulfilment Operations team to secure high performance, engagement, and competence development.
• Take responsibility for operational excellence across inbound, replenishment, outbound, and service execution processes.
• Secure efficiency, implement improvements, and introduce new operational processes and technologies.
• Collaborate closely with the Fulfilment Integration team, unit management, support functions, and external partners to ensure goods availability and timely customer order fulfilment.
• Ensure compliance with IKEA’s Code of Conduct, relevant Standard Operating Procedures, and health, safety, security, and environmental regulations.
• Drive the implementation of the Customer Fulfilment sustainability agenda within unit operations.
• Build a culture of equality, diversity, inclusion, and well-being while securing succession planning and a strong performance culture.
• Manage operations with flexibility, speed, and simplicity to deliver seamless shopping experiences and great customer value.
Together as a team We’re the team behind the scenes that make the IKEA products available to the many people. As a diverse mix of co-workers we use our supply process expertise to balance range and space capacity with forecasting and ordering to provide customers with high availability while minimizing costs. If you’ve wonder who’s responsible for finding effective and efficient ways of picking up the products for our customers, that’s us. We’re passionate about working together to improve the customer experience at IKEA!
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
