Material Learning Project Leader
Category Area Wood & Fibres
IKEA of Sweden, Älmhult

Can you really reach out to the whole world, creating a better everyday life for the many people? In Älmhult, Sweden you can. Älmhult is home to IKEA of Sweden. Here the IKEA range is developed and made available to stores and customers all over the world. At IKEA of Sweden you will work in a truly international and dynamic environment. You will have different opportunities to learn new skills and where the goal always is to create a better everyday life for the many people.

Category Area Wood & Fibres is a dynamic workplace where we are purchasing and developing business in material areas of Solid wood, Paper, Bamboo, Layer-Glued and Natural Fibres from all over the globe.

We are looking for a Material Learning Project Leader to join our team!

As our new colleague and Material Learning Project Leader, you will within the scope of Category area Wood & Fibres be responsible on a end-to-end on creating and developing the educational offer for internal stakeholder at IKEA. You will develop and implement clear ways of working with stakeholders, content owners and contributors across category area functions and other IKEA units in order to enable simple, effective and efficient learning solutions for today and tomorrow. In this role, you will report to Engineering & Quality Manager at Category Area wood & Fibres. .

Your main responsibilities as Material Learning Project Leader are:
- Develop, create and implement the content around Wood & Fibres materials for an educational package. Including learning solutions, Material Library and other CA channels/activities
- Support the Category Area by developing the material based knowledge from the Engineering & Quality matrix, into receiver oriented learning concepts and contents
- Identify and create practical learning activities in line with education package.
- Contribute to an open, informal, transparent and inspiring way of working with knowledge sharing and learning development (cooperating with competence development owner/communication owner/content owners and contributors in the Category Area, Categories, HFBs, Product Development teams, etc.)

We believe that you have a understanding of Wood & Fibres materials, their characteristics and basic understanding of production processes. You are a strong communicator with a very good ability to build relations, and with a passion and interest for materials, quality and learning concept. You are creative, you want to improve and develop things. You have experience in Project management, leading projects and driving the content production with a receivers’ perspective. As a person, you are structured, you lead your projects to the end. Since IKEA of Sweden is a truly global environment, with colleagues from all over the world, you need to be fluent in English.

The position is located in Älmhult, Sweden but with a global responsibility. Älmhult has excellent commuting possibilities with hourly trains to Malmö, Lund and Växjö and an IKEA shuttle bus back and forth to Helsingborg two times a day.
If you have questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruitment Specialist Kristyna Brabcova, at +460733-427586. 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.
 
We look forward to receiving your application in English, at the latest December 18th.
 
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.