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Senior Service Delivery Leader

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IKEA

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Location:
India, Bangalore

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Category:
IT - Software Development

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Contract Type:
Employment contract

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Salary:

Not provided

Job Description:

At IKEA, we are committed to transforming the way we manage and deliver services to enhance our co-worker experience and drive operational excellence. We are digitally transforming our technology landscape and related processes to ensure a modern workplace for over 177,000 co-workers across markets utilizing our systems every day.

Job Responsibility:

  • Align Service Management practices across areas to ensure consistent, robust, and complete implementation of service delivery guardrails
  • Collaborate with (Senior) Engineering Domain Managers to secure the competence and capacity of engineering teams required for great service delivery
  • Build and maintain the service management community in the assigned area, ensuring SLAs are met
  • Ensure Service Management & Operations capabilities are embedded in engineering teams with sufficient expert support
  • Identify goals and drive implementation of Service Delivery practices, ensuring standardized and coherent ways of working
  • Drive the implementation of Service Management-as-Code to ensure stability and rapid recovery from incidents.

Requirements:

  • Strong Service Management skills and how to integrate a strong and modern engineering culture across Group Digital and digital organizations in the markets with a proven track record (at least 10+ years) in managing services in a global organization
  • Strong understanding of software development best practices, and of how to lead, develop, define, plan, and execute a roadmap to meet business requirements together with relevant stakeholders
  • Demonstrable relevant knowledge of technology and/or software engineering within the relevant areas combined with good knowledge of agile ways of working, how to enable a product- and service-led organization, knowledge of how to set direction, create and manage plans, set budgets and goals, and follow up on OKRs across service delivery framework, SLAs, and KPIs
  • Proven analytical skills and experience in making decisions based on both hard and soft data
  • Strong negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to build trustful relationships and hold stakeholders accountable at all levels (junior team members or senior management) both internally and externally
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage and communicate with senior business leaders
  • Degree with a focus on Engineering, Technology, or related areas/equivalent combination of education and experience
  • 10+ years of diverse experience in Digital Foundation or Digital products and service delivery with a proven track record of delivering products and services that provide substantial value
  • 10+ years of experience with the services and products within the area and proven knowledge and ability to transform and optimize processes and behaviours
  • 8+ years of demonstrable experience working in agile/scrum and Software Engineering environments in complex global organizations
  • 8+ years of experience working with 3rd party IT partners/service providers
  • 8+ years of experience operating in a multi-speed IT delivery environment and with related frameworks such as ITIL4, SAFe, Site Reliability Engineering, etc
  • Demonstrable experience with ServiceNow and tools related to Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
  • Proven experience in Service Management implementation, change management, digital transformation, and working in rapidly changing environments
  • Strong leadership and collaboration skills with experience of leading others, including leaders.

Nice to have:

Knowledge of Fulfilment and Order Management

What we offer:
  • Some travel between Digital Hubs
  • Collaboration and co-creation in the office

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
November 15, 2025

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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