Supply Planning Manager Paços de Ferreira

Do you want to go to work and help create a better life at home?

With us, you can feel at home at 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, embrace mistakes, and grow from them. As our Supply Planning Manager, you’ll have many opportunities to try things you’ve never done before.

As a Supply Planning Manager, you’ll play an important part in the team. Your primary focus will be to ensure the availability of raw materials to assure the right operations output. You’ll report to Supply Chain Manager. The impact of our work will resonate in homes and hearts across the world. On a typical working day, you will:

• Lead the Supply Planning teams (Materials Planning, Purchasing and Raw Materials Warehouse), promoting their continuous development and supporting activities, projects and initiatives.
• Implement the strategy for the purchase, reception, and storage of raw materials, to ensure the availability of raw materials for the implementation and optimization of the production plan.
• Promote and ensure connection with Global Purchasing and Raw Material Suppliers, contributing to cost, quality and sustainability goals.
• Ensure the implementation and monitoring of purchasing agreements established with suppliers
• Ensure the reliability of raw material stocks and inventory routines.
• Ensure that the local purchasing process complies with the group's standard, which aims to standardise the activities of the various units.
• Define and apply working methods, processes and tools that optimize the implementation of the developed solutions.
• Ensure a response to unexpected situations by outlining and following the action plan.

What we’d like you to bring to the table

The role of Supply Planning Manager requires you to have:

• Higher education in Engineering or similar knowledge
• Experience in a similar role
• Experience in using ERP tools
• Fluency in English
• Leadership and team coordination skills
• Analytical and
  - oriented profile
• Ability and enjoyment of planning, setting and monitoring goals
• Proactivity in seeking solutions and solving problems
• Ability and enjoyment of working in a dynamic and demanding environment
• Team spirit and enjoyment of sharing knowledge and learning

Be yourself, a Supply Planning Manager, and more!

IKEA Industry, part of Inter IKEA Group, is the world’s largest producer of wooden furniture and is an integrated part of the IKEA value chain. As IKEA’s own furniture manufacturer, the assignment for IKEA Industry is to contribute to a unique and affordable IKEA offer. IKEA Industry has more than 30 production units in 7 countries with about 15 000
- workers, producing more than 100 million pieces of furniture every year for IKEA customers.

IKEA Industry Portugal, in Paços de Ferreira, was established in 2008 and has around 1800
- workers and a total area of more than 470. 000 m². Portugal is one of IKEA Industry´s top production countries, alongside Poland, Slovakia and Sweden. Our aim is to transition towards a circular business, save resources and produce more from less. We contribute to protect biodiversity; we use sustainable resources and reduce carbon emissions throughout our value chain. We currently have in Portugal more than 176. 000 m² of solar panels on the roofs, generating energy for self‑consumption.

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.

We welcome your application

Get ready to assemble something new! We look forward to receiving your application by 11th of November 2025.

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, or 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. We believe that people’s different perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities make us better at understanding our customers’ dreams and needs. At IKEA we’re all working on the same project.

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