Digital Expansion Specialist, Group Digital

Why we will love you
At Digital Expansion we lead, develop, and implement the digital vision and strategy for the establishment of new physical Customer Meeting Points and Fulfilment units, in both new and existing markets. We work in close collaboration with other teams and functions to ensure the successful deployment of new units, aligned with the INGKA Expansion strategy.
We are transforming our way of working, and we believe that we will become stronger with your experience from working in agile teams, and your drive to always improve the every day for our customers. We value someone that can challenge the current state and always prioritize the work based on what will generate the most value. You’re good at creating and maintaining good relations and feel accountable for your actions. Entrepreneurship comes naturally to you.
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.
To be successful as a Digital Expansion Specialist we believe that you have the following skills:
• Strong ability to lead the end-to-end delivery, while driving change and innovation
• Strong ability to inspire, influence, listen to and collaborate successfully with a variety of stakeholders in a complex environment
• High ability to work structured and systematically while organising work across different teams and partners
• It is an advantage if you have previous experience in retail connected to digital tools
• Experience in delivering digital solutions to co-workers, in a physical context
• Experience in integration and/or acceptance testing
What you'll be doing day to day
As a Digital Expansion Specialist, you will daily secure that we deliver digital solutions to new establishments. This will be done by leading and supporting teams, both locally and centrally, in all aspects related to technical delivery and IT implementation within the expansion initiatives. When applicable, you will perform assignments across time zones to facilitate collaboration with stakeholders. You will develop and improve the Digital implementation for Expansion initiatives, to provide value to the business and our customers.
In the role you will ensure scope, alignment, and progress with all needed teams to secure the buildup of the expansion project. For all establishments you will identify, mitigate, and manage risks regarding the technical delivery. Finally, you will manage and lead communication with stakeholders relevant to the assignment or project.
Your responsibilities, among many, will be to:
• Create the digital design for the new establishments, based on format standard templates to ensure consistency
• Lead the Digital establishments together with a cross-functional team, and other parties required, and secure the end-to-end digital delivery
• Continuously improve tools, processes, and ways of working
• Build strong relationships and enable collaboration and knowledge sharing with involved stakeholders
• Lead and secure test activities to safeguard the quality of the deliveries
• Identify customer needs and apply the resulting insights to deliver successful outcomes for customers
• Work with product and engineering teams to enable entrepreneurship and solve the pain points to ensure a seamless process for the end user
Together as a Team
We’re a team of approximately 25 persons that lead and work with the expansion agenda within Group Digital. We’ve started our journey to become a product-oriented organization where we want to implement an agile mindset in everything we do, and we need your help to contribute to this journey. We believe in empowerment and collaboration and rely on hundreds of people across the organization to deliver the work. We’re based in the south of Sweden, but a healthy amount of remote work is positive.

We’re passionate about delivering new establishments to IKEA. Always with an improvement mindset that everything can be done even better. Finding, together with colleagues outside of the team, solutions to challenges that can decrease costs, shorten lead times and give our customers more value is something that motivates us in our daily work.
We value teamwork and collaboration. We value teams and team members that self-organize to solve problems. We take pride in our Leadership that drives the expansion agenda within Group Digital, and other functions we work with. There’s no better reward than getting great feedback from our customers in the countries.
Apply now!
The role is based in Malmö, and you will report to the Digital Expansion Leader.
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”
Please apply with your application in English. Note that we cannot process any applications through email.Due to the vacation period, you will hear from us after August 14th.
We are looking forward to hearing from you!