Business Area Manager
- Full-time
Company Description
Here it is. Your chance to lead business development and create optimal conditions for sustainable growth and good financial result in the most influential small town in the world.
Can you really reach out to the whole world, while working in a tranquil idyll in the middle of nowhere? In Älmhult you can. Älmhult, Sweden is home to IKEA Range & Supply. IKEA Range & Supply has the responsibility to develop, design, produce and supply IKEA retail channels with home furnishing solutions available to the many people. Each year IKEA Range & Supply introduces 2,000 new products in the 400 stores IKEA stores and other multichannel touchpoints around the world with the turnover of 20,5 BEUR. The total range is almost 10,000 products. So what happens in Älmhult definitely doesn't stay in Älmhult. It reaches practically every corner of the globe.
Job Description
Are you a passionate senior leader with the ability and courage to lead strategies and actions that develop People and Business together? Do you want to contribute to create atmosphere in life at home through beautiful lighting and innovative technology? Then we are looking for you!
Right now we are looking for a Business Area Manager to lead our Business Area Lighting and IKEA Home Smart. Our business in Lighting is about inspiring people to experience the benefits of living with light and through beautiful lighting solutions and innovative technologies create atmosphere and wellbeing in their homes. Great lighting lifts the home furnishing feeling and brings out the beauty of the IKEA range. In our development unit for IKEA Home Smart we explore the opportunities to integrate technology into IKEAs home furnishing offer with the ambition to provide functional, simple, easy-to-use and joyful solutions that add value to people’s everyday lives. To continue to be the leader in life at home, it is a necessity to utilise our curiosity and explore solving everyday frustrations using new, but available, technology. We develop solutions for other HFBs in collaboration with both internal and external partners.
About the assignment
You lead a Business Area with approximately 125 co-workers together with 16 senior leaders. We want you to truly contribute in building on the strengths of the atmosphere of trust, delegated responsibilities and competent people. Together with your team set out the direction towards further innovation, where learning, joy and performance work hand in hand for a better IKEA.
You will report to Deputy Managing Director, IKEA of Sweden AB, Jeanette Skjelmose.
Your main tasks and responsibilities will be:
- Sustained excellence in daily operations through trust, encouragement and people focused leadership
- Competence development and evolvement of the unique IKEA Culture
- Further development and execution of business plans in the long term perspective
- Continuous creation of optimal conditions for growth and innovation
- Development of new opportunities in a multichannel business environment
- Contribution and support of the total IKEA agenda within IKEA of Sweden, Range & Supply, and other relevant IKEA organisations. Collaborate across the company to lead common topics for business and people development.
- Collaboration with the material categories to create the optimal conditions for full availability at lowest cost, optimal sourcing and close cooperation in the product development process
Qualifications
As Business Area Manager you need to have a deep understanding and honest belief in the values of the IKEA Culture and a strong passion and curiosity in people and how they live their “Lives at Home”. Furthermore, you need to have a strong interest in supplying and product development. In order for you to be successful in the job as Business Area Manager Lighting & IKEA Home Smart, you also need to have;
- Proven record of passionate and strong senior leadership – developing, inspiring, leading, coaching and influencing other senior leaders and specialists
- Proven record of successful business development and performance over time – business planning, setting and implementing action plans, providing clear direction and following up as well as consistently meeting agreed budgets and goals
- Strong communicative skills and great passion in leading, inspiring and empowering co-workers as well as other stakeholders, in a complex and fast paced organisation
- Strong networking capabilities inside and outside of IKEA and the ability to engage a variety of receivers by creating a passion for our business and action plan
- Proven ability to prioritise and organise your own work as well as the work of others in order to make the most efficient use of time available
- Curiosity driven problem solver with a playfulness in everything you do
Additional Information
The positions will be based in Älmhult, Sweden. For question regarding the position or recruitment process, please contact AnnaMaria Edring, +46 723 527178.
We look forward to receiving your application!