EU remote
Platform Manager | Range Operations
About this role
Hej Platform Manager, Do you want to furnish the future with innovative solutions? With us, you can feel at home in your work while sharing that feeling with millions of people around the world. We encourage you to stand up for yourself and others, creating an environment where everyone feels welcome. We invite you to open new doors, discover new tech possibilites, embrace mistakes, and grow from them. As our Platform Manager, you’ll have many opportunities to try things you’ve never done before.
Your new job We are recruiting a new Platform Manager. This role is positioned in Core Business Range, Range Operations, Technology, and reporting to the Platform Area Manager. Business platforms are new at Range and will support products to be more efficient. The platform manager we are looking for will be working with the platform that handles integrations and distribution of data. Our team is based in Malmö. We believe that your presence with the team and working the majority of the time in the workplace is important.
As a Platform Manager, you’ll play an important part in the team and bring valuable IKEA knowledge into a new setting. In the coming years, we will continue to develop shared technology platforms and services that enable scalability, resilience, security and cost‑efficient operations across IKEA. Your primary focus will be to own and manage outcomes within a defined platform area, including strategy, roadmap, lifecycle, and performance of platforms and services.
The impact of our work continues to resonate in homes and hearts across the world. On a typical working day, you will: Own and manage the assigned platform, ensuring performance, availability, security, compliance, and cost efficiency Lead and develop cross-functional technical teams through coaching, goal setting, and competence development Develop, define and maintain platform vision, strategy and roadmap aligned with enterprise and business strategies Manage platform budgets, costs, forecasts, and optimization initiatives Oversee supplier relationships, contracts, service reviews, and governance activities Ensure lifecycle management of platforms, including technology decisions, financial governance and continuous improvement Lead modernization initiatives, such as migration to cloud‑native and integrated platform solutions Collaborate with stakeholders across technology and platform networks to align capabilities with business needs.