it’s all about satisfied customers in our Quality Direction!
Our goal is to be faster and to provide more effective actions to quality deviations to ultimately reach greater success in the stores due to higher customer experienced quality. To meet the high expectations of our customers we have built up the Quality Deviation Management (QDM), structure globally.
We, as QDM, organize and manage the quality deviation process together with our key stakeholders while always keeping customer expectations in mind. We achieve this through analyzing the potential quality deviations that our stores and distribution centers report to us. As franchisor, we need to secure that the franchisees get reimbursed and find a solution for the defected goods. Moreover, we collaborate with our stakeholders to ensure that we learn from our mistakes and therefore, improve the quality of our goods and our processes.
QDM has two mandates: (1) Product Quality, where we, together with our stakeholders, ensure our customers ultimately purchase a product that has been well designed and produced, and meets our IKEA product requirements. (2) Supply Quality, where we secure that our food and home furnishing products are well-protected and handled with care and that they reach our customers in good conditions.
In your role as QDS, you will:
• Analyse the reported deviations and order discrepancies, define whether they are valid deviations or not and secure collection of proper documentation for root cause analysis.
• Identify relevant stakeholders connected to a deviation, initiate dialogue and make available all relevant information for a decision to be made on who was the causing party and what action should be taken with affected goods (in transit and/or stock on hand).
• Observe patterns and trends in deviations and initiate investigations with concerned stakeholders whenever a recurring problem occurs.
• Calculate the costs related to a deviation and prepare documents for the financial settlement between the causing party and the owner of the goods.
• Actively manage the open cases and secure the communication flow among the stakeholders until the resolution can be provided and the case can be closed.
• Ensure utilization of proper tools and working methods for each specific case and secure alignment within the team.
• Contribute to the Action Plan activities to secure goals set in line with Quality Direction and Supply Strategy are met.
• Be an ambassador for quality by actively sharing feedback and lessons learned from cases handled and by collaborating with team members to improve ways of working and reduce deviations.
You bring knowledge of:
• IKEA Supply Chain stakeholders and how they impact quality
• SCO Quality Direction
• ways of working with deviations, root cause analysis and claims
• claim and conflict management
• reporting and data visualization tools
• customer needs and expectations regarding quality performance
As a person you are:
• energized by a dynamic environment and navigating through unknown situations
• finding the best way to solve a problem and looking for long term solutions
• Setting own or team goals and investing energy and drive in reaching them
• interacting and collaborating with others. Building trust and partnership to reach common goals
• continuously learning and sharing knowledge
• understanding the sense of urgency and a "Quality-First" mindset
Sounds interesting?
If the above appeals to you, you might be the one we are looking for!
Submit your application online via our recruitment system SmartRecruiters as soon as possible but latest on August 20th 2024. If you have questions regarding the recruitment process, please send us an email through the system and we will come back to you as soon as possible.
Our culture and values are based on equal opportunities, and we are happy to consider applications from individuals with disabilities.
We are looking forward to hearing from you soon!
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