{"id":3676790,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ikea-supplier-relations-leader-cloud-infrastructure-data-ai-platforms","title":"Supplier Relations Leader – Cloud, Infrastructure, Data & AI Platforms","company":{"id":690817,"name":"IKEA","domain":"ikea.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ikea-8","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":80,"open_postings":10,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":14,"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"}},"role":"Operations","role_family":"Operations","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Warsaw, Poland"],"countries":["PL"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Databricks","optional":false}],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-11-03T10:45:39Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-03","last_verified_at":"2026-11-04T15:36:43Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-11-04T15:36:43Z","days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"We are reshaping how we work with Indirect Procurement.\nIndirect Procurement is making significant changes. Our new Indirect Procurement organisation will enable us to work smarter, simplify how we operate and create more value. With clearer roles, stronger collaboration and a foundation for AI and automation, we are building a future-ready organisation together.\n Shape strategic partnerships across cloud, infrastructure, data and AI\nThe best supplier relationships are about much more than contracts and performance reviews. As Supplier Relations Leader for Cloud, Infrastructure, Data & AI Platforms, you will own strategic relationships with some of IKEA’s most important global technology suppliers.\nYour portfolio may include suppliers such as Microsoft, AWS, Oracle and Databricks. You will work at the intersection of commercial strategy, cloud transformation, technology platforms, data and AI. Together with internal stakeholders and suppliers, you will translate IKEA’s technology priorities into stronger partnerships, improved commercial outcomes and long-term value creation.\nWhy this role matters\nCloud, infrastructure, data and AI platforms are increasingly important to IKEA’s digital capabilities, operational resilience and future development.\nThe suppliers within this ecosystem operate complex commercial and consumption models and have significant influence on IKEA’s technology direction and cost base. Managing these partnerships requires more than traditional supplier management. It requires strong commercial leadership, sufficient technology-market understanding and the ability to engage credibly with senior technology, architecture, engineering and platform stakeholders.\nYou will help IKEA optimise strategic technology partnerships, strengthen negotiation capability and reduce dependency on external expertise. You will contribute to building and retaining deeper cloud, infrastructure and platform knowledge within IKEA.\nA day in your life with us\nYou will:\nOwn strategic relationships with major cloud, infrastructure, data and AI platform suppliers.\nDevelop supplier strategies aligned with IKEA’s technology and business priorities.\nLead executive governance, strategic reviews and joint business planning.\nDrive supplier performance, development, innovation and long-term value creation.\nSupport complex commercial negotiations, renewals and strategic agreements.\nChallenge supplier pricing, consumption, licensing and commitment models.\nConnect supplier roadmaps with IKEA’s cloud, infrastructure, data and AI strategies.\nIdentify opportunities for cost optimisation, platform simplification and improved commercial governance.\nBuild IKEA’s internal knowledge and negotiation capability for major technology platforms.\nWork closely with Procurement, Technology & Platforms, architecture, engineering, data and other business stakeholders.\nIdentify and mitigate supplier, concentration, commercial, operational and technology risks.\nManage escalations and support resilience and business continuity.\n Who you are\nYou understand the strategic importance of cloud, infrastructure, data and AI ecosystems and how these platforms shape both technology capability and commercial outcomes.\nYou can translate technical and commercial complexity into clear supplier strategies and decisions. You do not need to be an engineer, but you have sufficient technology understanding to challenge global platform providers and operate credibly with senior technology stakeholders.\nWe believe you bring:\nStrong experience in supplier relationship management, sourcing, procurement or technology commercial management.\nExperience managing hyperscalers, cloud providers, infrastructure suppliers, data platforms or comparable strategic technology partners.\nUnderstanding of cloud economics, infrastructure and platform ecosystems.\nKnowledge of cloud consumption, enterprise commitments, licensing and commercial models.\nExperience supporting complex technology negotiations, renewals or strategic agreements.\nUnderstanding of cloud transformation, data platforms and AI-enabled technology ecosystems.\nThe ability to connect supplier capabilities and roadmaps with enterprise technology priorities.\nExperience managing strategic or business-critical supplier relationships.\nStrong commercial understanding and negotiation capability.\nExperience driving supplier performance, innovation and joint value creation.\nStrong stakeholder management and influencing skills.\nThe ability to engage credibly with architecture, engineering, platform and senior technology stakeholders.\nThe ability to manage ambiguity, risk and complex business situations.\nExperience working directly with suppliers such as Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Databricks or comparable global technology-platform providers would be an advantage.\n The position can be located in Malmö (SE) or Delft (NL) or Warsaw (PL).\nWe recruit based on values, competence, potential and diversity. We will first consider co-workers employed at Inter IKEA Group who are impacted by organisational changes, provided the competence requirements for the role are met.\nWe look forward to receiving your application in English latest by 17th November 2026.\nPlease not for this position we do not offer relocation support.\nIf you have questions about the role, please contact Hiring Manager Diederik Hagreis at  and if you have questions about the recruitment process, please contact Recruiter Femina Karlsson at ","description_format":"text","description_chars":5542,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Furniture","Home Decor"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-03T11:26:28Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-11-04T15:36:43Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":null,"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ikea-supplier-relations-leader-cloud-infrastructure-data-ai-platforms","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ikea-supplier-relations-leader-cloud-infrastructure-data-ai-platforms.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-10T00:58:59Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"search","counted_by":"address","units_charged":0,"used_today":0,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":null,"resets_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":690817},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=690817"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fikea-supplier-relations-leader-cloud-infrastructure-data-ai-platforms"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fikea-supplier-relations-leader-cloud-infrastructure-data-ai-platforms"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fikea-supplier-relations-leader-cloud-infrastructure-data-ai-platforms"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ikea-supplier-relations-leader-cloud-infrastructure-data-ai-platforms\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fikea-supplier-relations-leader-cloud-infrastructure-data-ai-platforms"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3676790}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"ikea.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3676790},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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