Robin Lundgren Email & Phone Number

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Älmhult, Kronoberg County, Sweden

• Accountable for global supply chain performance all the way to the customers of storage furniture in IKEA• Part of team with complete strategic and tactical responsibility for IKEA storage furniture.• One of the main tasks is to secure efficient global supply set-up with capacity for growth delivering continuous cost reductions and high availability to maximize retail sales volume and profitability.• Another main task is to secure efficient product development in collaboration with high competent suppliers located all over the world with low cost in focus.• Leading Sales and Supply forum monitoring and taking actions on deviations in the business.

Älmhult, Kronoberg County, Sweden

• Managed the global supply of all sofa-beds, leather sofas and key range fabric sofa families with suppliers across Europe, Asia and North America having a sales value of 1 billion EUR.• Led cost-out projects where we reworked construction of selected key running range products.• Implemented a new supply structure based on complete purchase control of a range of standardized parts and components.• Responsible for all supply chain related aspects when creating the long term strategy with action plan.

Älmhult, Kronoberg County, Sweden

• Managed the global purchase of all IKEA work chairs with a retail sales value growing from 20 to of 250 million EUR during tenure of my assignment.• My main task was to completely reengineer the way IKEA worked with Work Chairs including sourcing strategy, supply setup, organizational design and product development competence.• I established a competence center in China to facilitate product development and procurement of all nominated parts and components. • Key success factor to the new structure was securing all parts of the organization feeling sense of belonging to the same team and supporting each other independently of geographical location with buy-in to the strategy.

New Delhi, Delhi, India

• Regional responsibility including 120+ local and expat coworkers in four offices across three countries and a purchase value of 3,25 billion SEK.• Operational responsibility for machine made textile with purchase value of 1,5 billion SEK.• First IKEA region to successfully implement the new category based structure.

Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Established an IKEA purchasing organization with office in Bangladesh as a greenfield project. Included tasks like corporate registration, arrange office space, arrange satellite connection to IKEA main frame, recruit and train staff and prepare business plan.• Within 18 months create a new price level for IKEA lowering the purchase prices by >20% and my deputy fully trained to take over.

New Delhi, Delhi, India

• Developed an alternative purchasing source to China for IKEA lighting range at a lower cost.• Built a high performing purchasing team and competitive supplier base, developing many new products on the factory floor while growing the purchase volume significantly.

Paris, Île-De-France, France

• Responsible for sourcing in Belgium, France, Switzerland and Spain.• I renewed and improved the supplier setups, grew the sourcing volume and developed many new products with IKEA designers on the factory floor.

Tranås, Jonkoping County, Sweden

• Implemented new technologies like gas injection and sandwich molding in production.• Engineering responsible towards customers like Electrolux, IKEA, Saab and Volvo.

Tranås, Jonkoping County, Sweden

• Established greenfield injection molding company responsible for robotic lacquering plant and development and implementation of new production technology.• Developed gas assisted injection molding technology together with Krauss Maffei.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Management trainee program where I rotated through all departments in the store.

Kallinge, Blekinge County, Sweden

Älmhult, Kronoberg County, Sweden