One brand, many companies, and many, many people – that’s us in a nutshell. Spread all over the world, we have a passion for home furnishing and an inspiring shared vision: to create a better everyday life for the many people. This, together with our straightforward business idea, shared values, and a culture based on the spirit of togetherness, guides us in everything we do.
At IKEA, we see things a little differently. We onboard our suppliers as partners with whom we create long term relationships. We want them to grow with us, become more efficient and achieve lower prices.
We are now looking for a Supply Planner to join our team in Category Lighting, Home Electronics & Candles, based at our Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam office.
Job DescriptionYou will work in a small, 3-member micro-team with a Business Developer, who negotiates prices and take care of the overall commercial relation with the supplier, and a Production Engineer who takes care about production process and quality. Taking the leadership within the business team for the logistics agenda, you will be responsible to enable consistently high and stable availability for our IKEA customers at the lowest possible cost by:
- Securing supplier’s capacity planning and execution process to achieve excellence in running operations.
- Leading logistics development in collaboration with suppliers contributing to total value chain optimization and development.
- Dispatch planning and optimizing flow from sending perspective.
- Actively contributes to the planning and execution of the best set-up for range changes at supplier, news and discontinued products, activities, and business contingency planning processes.
- Defining and securing implementation of ways of working, systems & tools to support business decisions and suppliers to achieve logistics performance.
- Experience in Supply Chain & Planning, S&OP and logistics.
- Knowledge of supplier capabilities, material, production flow, production processes, constraints, yield, and available capacities.
- Sense of detail and capability of working with processes, routines & discipline & data accuracy & risk identification and scenario planning.
- Strong desire to seek logistics development and cost out opportunities and make it happen.
- Capability to deliver results through involving and engaging internal and external stakeholders with trust and partnerships.
- Communicates clearly, professionally, and assertively.
- Team player and collaboration skills.
- Capability of problem solving and conclude
This position will be based in Ho Chi Minh.
The selection process will take place continuously, so please send in your application in English as soon as possible but latest 2 October 2026.
Skills Required
- Experience in supply chain, planning, S&OP, and logistics
- Knowledge of supplier capabilities, materials, production flows, production processes, constraints, yield, and available capacity
- Attention to detail and ability to work with processes, routines, discipline, data accuracy, risk identification, and scenario planning
- Ability to identify and execute logistics development and cost-reduction opportunities
- Ability to deliver results through internal and external stakeholder engagement and partnerships
- Clear, professional, and assertive communication skills
- Teamwork and collaboration skills
- Problem-solving and decision-making ability
- Fluent English application communication
IKEA Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about IKEA and has not been reviewed or approved by IKEA.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive for eligible employees, including medical, dental, and vision alongside company‑paid protections. Feedback suggests access is available for many part‑time schedules, with additional resources such as savings accounts and mental health support.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is presented as generous, complemented by paid time off for caregiving needs. Family‑focused benefits like adoption support and childcare discounts are also available in some regions.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401k with company match and the Tack! loyalty pension contributions, alongside pension or group insurance in certain markets. These programs are positioned as broad‑based, adding long‑term value to total rewards.
IKEA Insights
What We Do
The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. Our business idea is to offer well-designed, functional and affordable, high-quality home furnishing, produced with care for people and the environment. The IKEA Brand unites more than 200.000 co-workers and hundreds of companies with different owners all over the world. It’s one brand, but it reaches millions of hearts and homes. Our value chain is unique. It includes everything from product development, design, supply, manufacture and sales – and of course it begins and ends with our customers.
