IKEA Management Programme in Sweden

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IKEA Management Programme in Sweden

Are you ready to take the next step in your leadership career? Do you have passion for home furnishing? Then this could be the right challenge for you. IKEA in Sweden is looking for future IKEA managers.

Our goal is to find talented, passionate and natural leaders who share our values and can lead us now and in the future. You will be offered a unique chance to experience and develop at IKEA.

During the 13-month IKEA Management Programme you will get to know IKEA from every perspective through training and hands-on involvement in a assignment at one of our IKEA companies in Sweden. You will start your training at one of our IKEA stores in August 2014. From September onwards you will be given your assignment. You will learn about Leadership at IKEA ? from the global home furnishing business and the supply process to the meeting with the customer in the IKEA store. You will also work with your personal development to find your next step at IKEA. Throughout the 13-month programme you will have a supervisor to guide you through your assignment and a mentor who will support, advice and challenge you. You will in the end of the programme have access to a professional coach.

To be a successful candidate you need:
-to be willing to relocate within Sweden, and possibly abroad in the future
-a strong interest in making a leadership career at IKEA
-a university degree or equivalent knowledge
-at least 1 year of coherent working experience
-to have started your career as a leader in some way. Maybe you have already worked as a manager for a couple of years, or you have practised leadership through e.g. voluntary commitments or in student organisations.
-fluency in English

We believe that you have leadership capabilities that are necessary to lead both business and people. As a leader at IKEA you take responsibility to lead and develop people, enable change, work tirelessly to find better ways of doing things, create a spirit of togetherness, inspire, clarify, develop the business and deliver results. Change is a constant part of our lifecycle at IKEA, therefore it is important that you can handle change in a good way, feel secure during change and hopefully it even tickles you.

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Please read more at ikea.se/jobb and apply there! Please note that we do not accept applications via e-mail, please apply via ikea.se.

If you have any questions regarding this position, please contact Anna Palm, anna.palm@ikea.com. In this case the recruitment processes may take time, so we kindly ask you to be patient in this regard. If you have any questions about the actual recruitment process, please contact our HR Service Centre, +46 (0) 476-5 87500.

If you want to be part of something big, this could be the right challenge for you!

The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. Our business idea is to offer a wide range of home furnishings with good design and function at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them.