IKEA Range & Supply has the responsibility to develop, design, produce and supply IKEA stores with home furnishing solutions available to the many people. Each year IKEA Range & Supply introduce 2,000 new products in the IKEA stores. The total range is almost 10,000 products.

Curious on the future of life at home for the many people in an environment without access to enough clean water? Come join us in exploring and creating solutions to it…

New Business Development Leader
New Business & Innovation (NB&I)
IKEA of Sweden, Älmhult

New Business & Innovation

With the task to capture the opportunities of a changing world, New Business & Innovation has the responsibility to enable IKEA to meet the future. We are here to explore the big problems in the life at home, creating solutions relevant for the many people. We are curious, eager to step into the unknown and believe in co-creating across borders, inside and outside of the company. We are here to collaborate and challenge known truths in a world of ideas and technology.
With the IKEA vision – to create a better everyday life for the many people - as a starting point, we focus on creating capabilities and solutions that are relevant in the life at home today and tomorrow. Care to join us?

About the assignment

Right now we are looking for a New Business Development Leader within the New Business Project team that will focus on innovative solutions when it comes to water. The New Business Development Leader is an impactful and challenging position creating and leading the business case follow up on ideas and initiatives that are derived from IKEA exploration processes that you are a part of, and anchoring these business cases in strategic business plans and existing IKEA Business Area product development processes. The position reports to the New Business Projects Manager.

About the job

 The New Business Development Leader is responsible for: 

- Driving the agenda of how we can impact peoples lives by looking into the future of water solutions;
- Defining strategic business cases for the assigned new business project, based upon IKEA exploration input, the market situation, Customer needs, sourcing capabilities, competitors, resources and overall IKEA goals;
- Communicate and anchor the business case solutions within the broader IKEA with a special focus on the IKEA Business Area stakeholders;
- Conduct feasibility studies within agreed areas to come up with possible solutions that will have the possibility to live up to revolutionary & Disruptive Democratic Design solutions;
- People and resource management within the assigned new business project.

To deliver in this role, the New Business Development Leader should have: 

- Business, material and product development knowledge at a strategic through operational level;
- Strong leadership skills – inspiring, influencing, connecting, coaching and developing specialists and other leaders;
- Insights into customer needs and behaviour, design, style and trends;
- Deep understanding of the IKEA value chain elements: product development, supply and retail;
- A strong drive to deliver and seeing things through;
- The capability to imagine the ‘what can be’ situation and passionately share this;
- A strong connection and motivation for the IKEA mission: creating a better everyday life for the many people;
- Strong networking and influencing skills to engage a variety of stakeholders;
- Excellent business planning, process management, implementation and budget management skills;
- The capacity to steer and work in a developing and changing environment.

Interested? New Business Development Leader position is a challenging and rewarding position with great impact on the current and future IKEA product development processes and product solutions but it needs something to be successful. We love what we do and we seek people who love their work too and who share our values in their professional and everyday life.

IKEA offers an exciting and empowering working environment in a global marketplace. And as the world’s leader at life at home, you have exceptional opportunities to grow and develop together with us. At IKEA we believe that when you as an individual grow - IKEA grows!

If you are interested to apply, please send us your CV and motivational letter in English by Friday 1st December 2017. Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidates. Please send us your application in English today!

If you have questions about the recruitment process, please contact Recruitment Specialist Johanna Hansson at +46 (0)73 376 1744

This is a permanent position based in Älmhult, an inspirational working environment, based on creativity and innovation, which gives you the opportunity to work and interact with people from all around the world. Älmhult has excellent commuting possibilities with hourly trains to Malmö, Lund and Växjö, and an IKEA shuttle bus run back and forth to Helsingborg two times a day.