DIGITAL COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT LEADER

The Digital Countries Development and Collaboration team (DC/DC team) is a global matrix function that promotes close Omni-collaboration between 30+ Countries, 200+ Group Digital Product teams and Business units regarding the countries' digital needs. The main purpose is to make sure that the voice of the countries is heard, ensuring relevance in product development - centrally and in countries - and driving simplification/harmonization of the local digital landscape. We work across all digital domains and are located in Malmö and Amsterdam.
We are now looking for Digital Countries Development Leaders to join the team, in Malmö.
WHO YOU ARE
As a person, you are curious, a team player, and have an entrepreneurial mindset and natural interest in people combined with a self-starter mentality. You think about possibilities and are passionate about bringing stakeholders together to find win-win solutions to digital needs. You get energized by building the digital puzzle based on transparency and togetherness and by working both independently and interdependently and cross functions. It motivates you to continuously improve and be open to change and if you are devoted to finding clarity where there is currently none then this role fits you perfectly!
Capabilities required for this role:
• Exhibit good independent leadership, and uses sound judgements to make timely and effective decisions
• Ability to structure, organise, prioritise and work to make things happen
• General organisational and coordination skills taking multiple sources of information and bringing them together
• Great interpersonal skills with the ability to build trustful relationships with colleagues of different seniority levels across the organization and across countries
• Strong communication skills
At IKEA, you’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Our different views, backgrounds, and personalities make us better understand our customers, give us more fun at work and spark more and better ideas. Perhaps your unique take on something could lead to a great idea that creates a better everyday life for the many people.
Your responsibilities
Within this role, you manage and handle the collection, consolidation, and prioritization of countries' digital needs within the assigned set of domains. You drive the optimization of the local digital landscape and enable qualitative and aligned country digital development within the assigned domains. You lead and search for continuous improvements of assigned cross-domain processes, tools, and frameworks. You share andlive the IKEA culture and values.
• Contribute to close Omni-collaboration with Countries, Product teams, Business units and external touchpoints by driving the collection, consolidation, and prioritisation of countries’ digital needs
• Handle and validate country needs, requests, and requirements, with an entrepreneurial mindset and common sense on what values it adds to IKEA, Customers, and/or Co-workers
• Simplify, optimize and quality assure the local digital landscape through continuous inventory and assessment as well as compliance with central standards and guidelines
• Act as a subject matter expert regarding the local digital landscape, providing central stakeholders with insight, context, and additional information as needed to identify optimisation opportunities within the assigned domains
Apply now!
The role is based in Malmö and you will report to the Digital Countries Development Manager.
Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they’re 100% “qualified”. If this is part of the reason you
hesitate to apply, we like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think. We look forward to
receiving your application.
From: “Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified” by Tara Sophia Mohr, August 2014”
We will be interviewing continuously and are looking forward to hearing from you!
PLEASE NOTE
Our recruitment processes are to be fully digital until the final stages