Full Time Permanent Business Development Who you areAre you a strategic thinker with a passion for problem-solving and innovation? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment and share the IKEA culture and values? If you have a strong background in project management, business development, and portfolio management, we want you on our team as a Strategy & Portfolio Leader!
You are enthusiastic about driving strategic initiatives while collaborating with cross-functional teams, translating high-level strategies into actionable plans, which can be followed up on. Building strong relationships with stakeholders comes naturally to you as you engage with coworkers across the organization.
Key Qualifications:Design and Implementation: You have good knowledge of designing and implementing strategies.Portfolio Management: You possess solid knowledge of portfolio management, ensuring effective prioritization, follow-up, and risk balance.Business Development and Innovation: Your broad knowledge of business development and innovation methodologies and solutions will drive our strategic initiatives forward.Project Management: You have previous experience managing projects, preferably in a large global organization or environments.Relationship Building: You are excellent in building networks and impactful and influential relationships.Leadership and Operational Skills: You have set strategies, executed plans, and delivered results, showcasing your leadership and operational experience.Meeting Place: Preferably you have experience in meeting place business or from the retail industry.Digital Solutions: Experience from digital solutions and tools supporting business development initiatives.A day in your life with usAs a Strategy & Portfolio Leader you will contribute to the creation and deployment of winning and actionable strategies. Going from vision to action and from data to decision, securing seamless strategy deployment within Ingka Centres roadmap. You will be leading and developing the innovation portfolio across the planning landscape to maximize the value creation aligned with our Value Creation goals.
Your everyday will also involve translating complex tasks into simple solutions, networking with influential partners, and inspiring the implementation of our strategic direction across our organization.
Among other responsibilities, you'll:
Lead and develop portfolio management with clarity in prioritization, follow-up, and risk balance to ensure a balanced portfolio to support the deployment of the Ingka Centres Direction.Identify and facilitate cross-team collaboration and prioritization from a total portfolio perspective to create opportunities for synergies and a shared approach.Collaborate closely with the Ingka Business planning team and other key stakeholders on the strategy deployment.Secure an aligned approach towards initiatives and activities supporting Ingka Centres Direction execution through up-to-date Commitment Plans.Engage, inspire, and guide the implementation of the strategic direction across the planning landscape.Ensure clarity in goals to facilitate effective measurement of success.Collaborate with the Ingka Group Strategy Development & Innovation portfolio team for development and alignment to increase efficiency and impact of Ingka 10 jobs and Ingka Centres Direction.Contribute to managing the Ingka Centres Strategic landscape, framework, methods, and tools.Contribute to the development of Ingka Centres Direction in close collaboration with the Strategy & Insight Manager.You'll report to our Strategy & Insights Manager, and be based in Malmö, Sweden; Madrid, Spain; Warsaw, Poland; or Shanghai, China.
Together as a TeamTogether with IKEA Retail and Ingka Investments, Ingka Centres is part of Ingka Group. As a long-term partner of IKEA, we share our vision, our culture, and our values, while what makes our businesses different is the way we fulfill our vision. If the idea of IKEA is to create a better life at home, we work hard to create a better everyday life outside of the home by developing virtual and physical meeting places where people can meet, shop, and connect with their communities.
We have big plans for the future that involve expanding to new locations, opening smaller-scale concepts closer to the city centres, digitalization, and most of all, living up to shared sustainability goals. We're constantly looking for enthusiastic, purpose-oriented, and creative people who'd like to join us on our journey to create meeting places around the world.
Questions and support? Let's connect!Perhaps there is something you're wondering about? For job-specific questions please contact hiring manager Ann-Sofie Isaksson at ******. Do you have questions about the recruitment process? Please contact recruiter Hektor Thomke at ******.
We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, but no later than 8th of September 2024. We will be interviewing continuously and may remove the advertisement earlier than this date. Warmly welcome with your application!
WHY YOU WILL LOVE USFrom the deep forests in Sweden, we have spread our culture and values around the world. At the heart of our business, are our wonderful co-workers representing diversity in all dimensions and passionate about the people's need to meet. We all contribute with our uniqueness, and we want to grow and develop together. Our vision, "to create a better everyday life for the many people" inspires and guides us in everything we do. This is Ingka Centres.
WHAT WE ALL HAVE IN COMMONLiving our valuesBeing your unique self, while respecting and including othersPerforming & delivering while learning & developing
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