Platform Manager | Range Operations

Ikea; Malmö kommun; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

IKEA is seeking a Platform Manager based in Malmö to own and drive platform strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management. You will lead cross-functional teams and collaborate with technology and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, cost-efficient platforms.

The role focuses on modernization, cloud-native migrations, and governance to enable IKEA's data integrations and services across the business. You will influence decisions that impact our products and customers globally.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of platforms, architecture and service management.
• Experience with cloud platforms, automation, DevOps and modern engineering.
• End-to-end digital product development and operations insight.
• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing technical teams.
• Platform lifecycle management including performance, security and cost.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence across functions.
• Comfortable in complex environments with multiple stakeholders and dependencies.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Communicate platform roadmap progress, priorities and business value to stakeholders and leadership.

Skills

Platform management

Cloud platforms

DevOps

Stakeholder management

Budget governance

Supplier management

Cross-functional leadership

Architecture awareness

Cost optimization

Platform lifecycle

Job description

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 fullstack developer, you’ll have many opportunities to try things you’ve never done before.

We are recruitinga newPlatform Manager. This role ispositioned inCoreBusiness Range, Range Operations,Technology, and reportingto the Platform Area Manager.Business platforms are new at Range and will support productsto 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 inMalmö.

As a Platform Manager,you’llplay 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,securityandcost‑efficientoperations 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, defineandmaintainplatform 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, financialgovernanceand continuous improvement
• Lead modernization initiatives, such as migration tocloud‑nativeand integrated platform solutions
• Collaborate with stakeholders across technology and platform networks to align capabilities with business needs.
• Communicate platform roadmap progress, priorities, and business value to stakeholders and leadership

Qualifications

What we’d like you to bring to the table

The role as a Platform Manager requires you to:

• Have strong understanding of platforms,architectureand service management
• Have experience working with cloud platforms, automation,DevOpsand modern engineering principles
• Have a solid understanding of end-to-end digital product development and operations
• Have proven experience leading and developing high-performing technical teams
• Be able knowledgeable in platform lifecycle management, including performance,securityand cost considerations
• Have strong stakeholder management skills and ability to influence across functions
• Be comfortable working and leading in complex environments with multiple stakeholders and dependencies

It’s a plus ifyoualso:

• Have experience with budget ownership or costoptimisationwithin a platform or technology area
• Have experience working with suppliers,contractsand external partners
• Have experience leading change or transformation initiatives in technology environments
• Have worked as an engineer in a product or platform team
• Are highly interested and aware of technology trends and emerging solutions
• Have worked with integration technologies e.g. APIs and Events
• Have knowledge of regulatory developments and compliance requirements

Additional Information

Be yourself, a Platform Manager, and more!

Inter IKEA Group is the group of companies that connects IKEA franchisees with range development and suppliers and aligns the overall IKEA strategic direction. Every day, we strive to develop, produce and sell products and services that are affordable and accessible to everyone. With us, you contribute to building a democratic brand and workplace that has a positive impact on both the planet and people's lives.

Your health, wellbeing, and development matter most to us, and our benefits are designed with you in mind. As a co-worker and a person, you are an essential part of our down to earth, playful, and inclusive culture, collaborating with others across roles, departments, and even across the globe. In this curious and optimistic environment, you’ll find endless opportunities to grow. Make us the home of your career.

At IKEA, we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the table.You’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you.Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.We believe that people’s different perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities make us better at understanding our customers dreams and needs.

If you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process, just let us know.

We always recruit based on values, competence, potential and diversity. We will first consider co-workers employed at Inter IKEA Group impacted by organisational changes. For this specific recruitment priority will be given to impacted co-workers in Core Business Range and Inter IKEA Technology Services AB provided competence requirements are met for the role.