Home furnishing direction leader

Why we will love you
Are you truly passionate about home furnishing and creating a better life at home? If yes, this might be your next opportunity!
To be successful in this role, you have a strong background in Home Furnishing, Retail Design and/or Com&In. You have been working in different functions and preferably on country level. You demonstrate strong leadership capabilities and have experience of leading teams and people in projects of a larger scale. You are experienced in translating creative concepts into new impactful and commercial solutions.
Together with analytical, organizational, and change management skills you know how to initiate and drive the process forward. Furthermore, you have a good understanding of IKEA concept, brand, and the IKEA ways of working. Besides creative leadership and good project management competence, you do also have a strong commercial knowledge and are well familiar with the IKEA Brand identity, range, and customer journey.
You have a strong collaborative mind-set and know how to communicate, interact, and build trustful relationships through all levels. You have a solution-oriented approach, eager to achieve results and the capability to find new and better ways of working. We do also believe that you are an influencer with strong interpersonal skills, who gets inspired by working together in an ever-changing environment. You are passionate about developing the business through people and truly share and live the IKEA culture and values.
Your responsibilities
As a HFD Leader you will lead the co-creation of the Home Furnishing Direction on a 1–3-year basis, by putting together the HFRD (Home Furnishing Range and Design) mgmt. team and other relevant stakeholders. You will work across functions within Ingka Group and collaborate with other IKEA units to help us create world class IKEA stores.
Furthermore, you will:
• Contribute with new development initiatives that will support the Life at home Movement by building connection between the range and the solutions with consumers, therefore engaging many more people on how a better home contributes to a better life.
• Contribute with life at home knowledge to create of the Home Furnishing Direction on a 1-3 year basis, and secure it delivers towards one IKEA Business Plan objectives and goals
• Execute the growth plan initiatives for the home furnishing direction by collaborating with the markets to secure growth, build the brand and contribute to a fantastic customer experience.
• Proactively participate in the One IKEA BPL process to align the Home Furnishing Direction
• Work closely with selected Market Input Leaders to receive input on new development initiatives and follow up the success of deployed initiatives.
• Collaborate with all Centre of Expertise in Market support to align the home furnishing content across channels & media
• Lead, inspire and develop the HFD leaders in the markets and keep a close dialogue to secure market relevance in all deliveries.
• Lead a wide range of exploration initiatives to develop the business and identify new revenue streams in relation to life at home and home furnishing.
• Showcase value, deploy, and follow up the assigned initiatives to ensure contribution in the strongest way to the value creation goals
• Act as an active member in the Extended HFRD management team and contribute to deliver the overall direction and goals.
You will be a part of Home Furnishing & Retail Design in Market Support and report to Patrik Gustafsson, Home Furnishing Direction Manager. This position is based in Malmö.
About this work area
The mission for Market Support is to enable extraordinary growth by supporting the markets in a new era of meeting the customer. We will empower the markets to realize a simple, unique, and seamless meeting. We will provide our markets with economy of scale and exceptional quality in common solutions for all. We will organize for efficiency and effectiveness.