Do you want to be a part of 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 designed and developed before reaching customers all over the world. We are here to offer a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. That is our promise, and we do this every day with great passion and energy.

At IKEA there are many ways to grow and we see and invest in the potential of our co-workers. That’s why we have a fantastic pool of internal facilitators ready to contribute with their expertise and passion for developing people and a whole learning organisation ready to turn business needs to competence needs.

The L&CD team is a bunch of curious, passionate and brave people who work together in the same direction. We are all leaders with the IKEA culture and values at heart. We lead by example with a “get things done” attitude and with a willingness to learn, unlearn and relearn in the everyday.

Join our team and work in a global context with learning initiatives, competence development and all things connected to growing people and business together!
We are now looking for a Leadership & Competence Developer.

In the Leadership and Competence development team we work with competence for all areas of IKEA Core Business Range and Core Business Supply connected to developing the range, sourcing the materials, supplying the products and creating world-class marketing. We develop learning initiatives with different levels of complexity based on the needs of our close to 30 000 co-workers.
Your main responsibilities in this assignment will include:

• Developing highly professional learning initiatives and solutions according to the IKEA learning development process, guidelines and framework.  
• Develop learning in different formats such as e-learning, workshops, facilitated online trainings etc. depending on the needs from the business.
• Understand the reality of the learner and be a great speaking partner to the competence development area leaders and business stakeholders in developing and maintaining the different learning initiatives.
• Responsible for securing quality, IKEA tone of voice and look and feel of the learning solutions in the offer
• Lead the review process of existing learning solutions and in close collaboration with the content owners ensure that content is relevant and up to date. 
• Ensure that the IKEA values guide the development of learning products, which should be recognizable in the learning design, the IKEA identity, the cost/price and the learning products’ ability to last over time. 
• As a member of our team you will also facilitate one or several learning initiatives as part of your role.
• All members of team are also owners of leadership trainings or programmes which includes training and securing facilitators, securing frequency of the sessions and keeping the content and format is up to date.
• You will contribute to constantly developing and improving the ways of working with learning in IKEA  Core Business Range and Core Business Supply

We believe that you enjoy a complex and fast moving environment. You dare to lead by example and you are a true ambassador of IKEA culture and values!

You have a genuine interest in people´s ability to learn & grow and a strong belief in that competence development drives business result. You can easily build strong and trustful relationships with multiple stakeholders on different levels. Moreover, you know the value of creating learning initiatives with clear content and purpose adapted to the different target groups.
To succeed & shine in this role, we wish that you:

• Have knowledge and experience of developing learning solutions or other development work in a business context
• Have a solid understanding of the process of development of learning initiatives
• You have experience of facilitating workshops or trainings
• Have interest in development and trends in the field of learning and behaviour change
• Have practice indirect leadership and project management
• Have an ability to work with both a long-term strategic agenda and short term operational tasks
• Have strong communication skills, together with being structured and well-organized.
• You have extensive experience in developing digital learning solutions on one or several platforms
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and you are fluent in English

Sounds interesting?

We look forward to receiving your application in English latest 20th of May 2021. 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.

If you have any questions about the position you are welcome to contact Competence Dev Area Leader Mathias Hallberg at [email protected] If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruiter Marie Sandman on +46 768545309