Product Requirement Engineer – RA Bed and Bath Textiles

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

When you walk into your home the central question remains: How do I feel? And the feeling is brought by textiles. That’s our superpower. Because textiles don’t ask you what you think, they ask how you feel. And we think that might be the most important question you can ask in your life at home. IKEA textiles. For whatever you’re feeling. Welcome to RA Bed & Bath textiles

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 Product Requirement Engineer, you’ll have many opportunities to try things you’ve never done before.

Your new job

As a Product Requirement Engineer, you’ll play an important part in the team and will translate customer expectations on our products into technical requirements. Your primary focus will be to identify and develop product requirements that will make our products sustainable, safe, and sellable on all our markets, and loved by our customers.

As Product Requirement Engineer you will work in the product development team as the requirement specialist. You will also create a strong relationship with the Requirement development department and as well as engineers from the purchasing organization to secure an understanding of the product requirements and successful implementation. You will have a good knowledge of IKEA specifications, standards, and test methods relevant for the product areas you are responsible for. 

The impact of our work will resonate in homes and hearts across the world. On a typical working day, you will:

• Take responsibility to develop and communicate with stakeholders Ikea products documentation-the base of our contract agreement with suppliers

• Develop product requirements for sustainable, safe and functional products and identify and connect to product legal and market specific requirements

• Order product samples, organize testing, evaluate as per requirements and share feedback of product samples during development or 0-series production phases of development process.
• Participate in team meetings where progress of product development process is tracked.

What we’d like you to bring to the table

You probably have a University Degree in Textile Engineering and a couple of years of experience working with product development and/or creating and documenting product requirements. In the product requirement engineering field, you are regarded as experienced with the ability to lead yourself, take responsibility, and drive initiatives from start to finish. You have good analytical skills and a high ability to administrate large amounts of data, see patterns and apply best practices. You have a passion for sharing knowledge and the ability to explain complex matters in an easy way.  You have good skills to plan, prioritize, execute and follow up  work tasks as per deadlines.

Finally, you also know how to apply agile development methods, and you are experienced and motivated to work in a rapidly changing environment.

 Inter IKEA Group is the group of companies that connects IKEA franchisees with range development and suppliers and aligns the overall IKEA strategic direction. Every day, we strive to develop, produce, and sell products and services that are affordable and accessible to everyone. With us, you contribute to building a democratic brand and workplace that has a positive impact on both the planet and people's lives. 

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

This is a temporary position for15 months and islocated in Älmhult, Sweden.

Please send us your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English latest 8th of October 2025. We really want to get to know you, so make sure you tell us why you want to work at IKEA of Sweden and why you would be a good fit for this role.  

If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please reach out to recruiter Jonas Levin at jonas.levin@inter.ikea.com

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.