Job Description
Are you ready to drive IKEA forward and shape our future together?
At Range Operations Development - Engineering, we create the foundation for range and product development across Range Areas, aiming for better products at lower costs and faster market times. We maximize the deployment of platforms and standards, defining, developing, and operating a full portfolio of development capabilities within Engineering expertise.
Your Role We are seeking a Team Manager for our Engineering capability team, focusing on rolling out PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and building granular data.
Responsibilities
- Lead and enable your team to perform their assignments according to IKEA values and business priorities.
- Guide the team through change in a complex business environment.
- Develop team competencies, manage recruitment, and ensure proactive succession.
- Implement unified ways of working, tools, and competencies in the business.
- Identify and lead the development of essential business capabilities to enhance performance.
- Contribute to the budgeting process by providing resource, development, investment, or service needs.
Qualifications
- Proven experience in leading similar roles.
- Ability to lead through change in complex business environments.
- Passion for coaching and challenging teams to achieve great results.
- Guided by IKEA values with strong communication and relationship-building skills.
- Commitment to continuous improvement.
- Understanding of IKEA business processes or relevant industry experience.
Additional Information
This is a permanent position based in Älmhult.
We offer flexibility with the option to work from home a couple of days a week.
Application Process: Please register your application in our recruitment system. Instead of a motivational letter, answer the following questions:
- What do you believe is your contribution to this position?
- What values and strengths will come through in your leadership?
- How do you lead and create movement with both business and people?
The last application date is January 19th. We will conduct interviews continuously and may close applications earlier. Due to upcoming holidays, responses may be slower.
Contact Information:
For questions about the position: Daniel Ladeira at [email protected]
For recruitment process inquiries: Recruiter Jonas Levin at [email protected]
Top Skills
What We Do
The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. Our business idea is to offer well-designed, functional and affordable, high-quality home furnishing, produced with care for people and the environment.
The IKEA Brand unites more than 200.000 co-workers and hundreds of companies with different owners all over the world. It’s one brand, but it reaches millions of hearts and homes. Our value chain is unique. It includes everything from product development, design, supply, manufacture and sales – and of course it begins and ends with our customers.
The IKEA retail business is operated through a franchise system. Today, 12 different groups of companies market and sell the IKEA product range under franchise agreements with Inter IKEA Systems B.V.
Any jobs published on this page are offered by different companies operating under the IKEA Trademark.
IKEA was founded in Sweden in 1943.
