ASSET MANAGEMENT LEADER – INGKA REAL ESTATE, INGKA GROUP

WHY WE WILL LOVE YOU
Simply because you take the lead within the area of Asset Management, develop and implement standards, guidelines, methods, tools, sustainability best practices and innovation to ensure delivery of safe, compliant, sustainable and innovative property solutions that meet the needs of the business and the many people. You actively support our organization to maintain and secure that our properties are kept in relevant shape for the business.
You are stimulated by creative ideas and perspectives that add value. Leading others from a global perspective/leading a global topic and managing to reach out is something you like and have experience from. Since you will be working in a global context with different clusters it is important that you love building relationships – both remotely and in real meetings. Ingka is constantly changing, and we always need to be ready to do changes in our ways of working or doing business. Therefore, you are someone who enjoys working with change management, have experience with it, and how to manage stakeholders.
We are looking for someone who has:
• Legal education within asset management
• Knowledge of how to work with public administrations, to optimize land usage in terms of technical and authority aspects of infrastructure, protection, and use of environment, planning and permitting.
• Knowledge of how to assess and mitigate risks in a business environment.
• Leadership/project management skills.
• Experience from working in a global organization.
Last, but not least – you are a true ambassador for IKEA culture and values. You always keep the values at heart when making decisions and influencing others in a positive way.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead in delivering safe, compliant, sustainable, and innovative property solutions – with Democratic design and life cycle cost on top of our mind. You actively maintain and secure that our properties are kept in relevant shape for the business together with the correct stakeholders. Provide guidance, support, documentation, training, minimum requirements, best practices and alternatives to the global organization. Communicate in English both spoken and written, in an adaptive way to get your message across in a clear and humble way.
Job-specific key tasks and responsibilities
• Deliver support and guidance to clusters and countries related to Asset management topics and tasks.
• Work proactively with divestment, portfolio management, rebuilds, permits management and optimisation of Ingka properties including analyses and identifying opportunities, preparation of the legal scheme of divestment and materials for decision making, in cooperation with countries/clusters.
• Development, monitoring and proactively working with countries to develop and maintain the database for all Ingka properties.
• Responsible for leading and coordinating within assigned key competence area, the delivery of training content learning solutions and tools with the general purpose of developing the overall asset competence in Ingka in cooperation with relevant stakeholders and supporting functions to identify learnings, thereby improving in-house knowledge, and the performance on subsequent projects.
• Create an environment where the IKEA culture is a strong and living reality that embraces the diversity of co-workers and customers.
• Within competence area lead the work and coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure that specifications, standards, manuals etc. relating to Asset management are consistent with other Ingka documentation, correctly reflects current business needs and are implemented in the cluster Real Estate organisations.
• Support cluster organisation with questions related to Asset management, in the context of each cluster organisation having direct responsibility for executing its business within the frameworks developed by Group Real Estate.
We offer you a multicultural environment where there will always be room for you to grow -both as a professional and as an individual. Ingka Group has a strong culture with values in center. We trust in our co-workers to make sound decisions and know we will get so much good in return because of that.
This role is located in Malmö and you will report to the Real Estate Development Manager, Group Real Estate.
ABOUT THIS WORK AREA
Group Real Estate - As engaged, open-minded, and curious experts in all parts of the real estate business we take responsibility for the real estate business at Ingka Group as a trustworthy, appreciated and wanted business partner. We secure new and maintain existing physical locations in order to meet the needs of the many people. We provide strategic insight based on our knowledge and understanding of the Ingka real estate portfolio. We take the lead in delivering safe, compliant, sustainable and innovative property solutions – with Democratic design and life cycle cost on top of our mind. We actively maintain and secure that our properties are kept in relevant shape for the business so that we can provide a safe and healthy environment for all co-workers and customers.