Product Design Developer

IKEA Food offer delicious, affordable, healthier and more sustainable food for the many people. We meet customer needs and behaviors in an enjoyable experience at our physical meeting points, products to eat on the go or to bring home and cook at home. We are divided in two Range Areas;

Range Area Consumer Packaged Goods for Food is a stable and successful business and has been for many years. To secure a future as successful as the past, we are building a renewed, improved, and wider Food Consumer Packaged Goods offer for the future.

Range Area Food Services - with delicious, desirable, and sustainable food at a low price, we play a big role in the IKEA experience. As Ingvar once said, "It is tough to do business with hungry stomachs". Food is a strong reason for customers to visit, stay longer, and keep coming back. In some places, we are often the first connection people have with the IKEA brand.

Do you have a passion for Food and thinking out of the box? Are you motivated by reaching more of the many people through a desirable, healthier, sustainable, and affordable range offer? Are you interested in steering product development, change, and improvements keeping the consumer and the business in focus?

Job Description

Right now, we are looking for a new Product Design Developer to Range Area Consumer Packaged Goods and a new Product Design Developer to Range Area Food Services

We are looking for you who have a can-do attitude, who love delivering projects on time, who is a born coordinator (people & products) and who can react to current and future trends, taste, flavors, ingredients, colors etc. We’re looking for you who have deep insights into the needs and dreams of consumers and their life-at-home realities across the globe and who have the know-how to lead design processes with an entrepreneurial & collaborative approach.

As a Product Design Developer at IKEA of Sweden, you bring product ideas to life through attention to all dimensions of the IKEA Democratic Design process, form, function, sustainability, low price, and quality.

As a Product Design Developer, you will be part of engaging the full capabilities of the value chain (from supplier to consumer) to deliver democratic design products with a unique IKEA identity to create a better everyday life for many people. You will work together with a multifunctional team of experts in design, sourcing & supply, engineering, marketing & communication, and sales.

As a Product Design Developer for Range Area Consumer Packaged Goods & Range Area Food Services, you are responsible for:

• Steering the design development of better products and dishes delivering to all 5 dimensions of Democratic design being the specialist in form and function always starting with the price tag.
• Lead the team to make decisions and move forward in the creative process together balancing all relevant input for optimal Democratic Design and to strengthen the IKEA identity.
• The content of the product development project with both vision and action.
• Securing IKEA's unique identity and Democratic Design in every product for all customer meeting points
• Co-creating with development partners throughout the total value chain, from consumer to supplier.
• Identifying and enabling stories of the product design development to be used in communication.
• Contributing to creating a high-performing project team.
• Contributing to creating the Range and Product & Portfolio plan you need to work closely with your team members and be capable of visualizing trends, insights, ideas and concepts in a simple, clear, and inspirational way to bring people on board in the product development process. You may also work in close collaboration with other project teams within the business area, as well as across other departments.

Qualifications

To be successful;

A Product Design Developer is someone who has a genuine interest in people, their life at home, and developing products and dishes; someone who can see things from a consumer’s perspective and conceptualize things that don’t exist. To be successful in the job as a Product Design Developer, we expect you to have a university degree in a design discipline or product development, or equivalent knowledge and several years of experience in working with product development.

A Product Design Developer is innovative and curious. someone with the ability to work with conceptual ideas, who can turn these into actual solutions and own the content of the project from start to end.

You have an eye for design and get motivated by finding new ways of working. You are energetic, motivated, and enjoy working closely with people, at a fast pace, and have great communication skills.

Additional Information

Do you want to be a part of creating a better everyday life for the many people? In Älmhult, you can. Älmhult is home to IKEA of Sweden. Here the IKEA Range is developed and made available to stores and customers all over the world. We are here to offer a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. That is our promise, and we do this every day with great passion and energy.

Does this sound like your next challenge?

We look forward to receiving your application – resume including answering to the following questions – in English by latest September 27th 2024.

What is it in the role as Product Design Developer that makes you apply? In you answer please define whether you have a stronger interest in one of the roles or if you interest is in both

What do you think you would bring to this role that makes you an ideal candidate?

How would you describe your leadership capabilities?

This is a full-time job position, located in Älmhult, Sweden.

If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Hiring Manager RA Consumer Packaged Goods Range Manager Anh Linh at [email protected] and/ or Hiring Manager RA Food Services Per Stigenius at [email protected]

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Jonas Levin at [email protected]