Investment Manager

What you'll need to have
We are looking for you who are passionate about creating an IKEA fit for the future. You are motivated by increasing customer value and get energized by contributing to overall success and results through collaboration. Leading and developing people motivates you, just as much as working in an everchanging multi-dimensional environment. You get inspired by finding new ways through co-creation with colleagues and other units, and by living the IKEA culture and values.
We believe you have proven advanced training in business administration, finance, economics or equivalent and bring minimum 5 years’ experience in business steering or finance related field. You also have minimum 5 years of experience of developing businesses and delivering results as well as leading and influencing teams and managers. Moreover, we expect you to have experience from managing change in a complex business environment.
You bring:
• Extensive understanding of Ingka governance and performance, and broad business knowledge and cross functional understanding of IKEA Retail operations and process landscape
• Extensive knowledge of investment calculation and real estate investment principles and deep knowledge of IKEA retail accounting and business navigation processes
• Insights in project management and knowledge of how to implement change initiatives and manage stakeholders, as well as how to set direction, create and manage long-term goals and follow-up on KPI´s
• Good knowledge of Ingka Group strategies, priorities, and strategic expansion planning process
As a person you are able to lead and coach a team of co-workers and colleagues with strong inclusive and interpersonal skills and build relationships on trust. You have a strong analytical mindset and can prioritize and make decisions with speed and simplicity. You communicate with an inspirational touch following the IKEA tone of voice.


Your responsibilities
As our Investment Manager, you will lead, coach & develop a high performing team of 6-8 skilled leaders and analysts. With your strong interpersonal skills and by leading with the IKEA values at the core, you will be able to ensure an open and sharing climate in the team, enabling all members to share best practices with and across the organization.
You will be responsible to lead the Investment Management, and follow-up processes and assignments related to the Ingka Strategic Expansion plan and Ingka Expansion process landscape, to secure sustainable growth, profitability and operational excellence. You will be part of the Investment & Operations leadership team in Group Expansion.
In more detail, you will:
• Lead, develop, support and follow-up on Expansion Business Cases in new and existing markets.
• Lead and develop the assessments and reviews of Expansion business cases and Investment requests.
• Be responsible for the development of cost management working methods and tools and enable and ensure application in Expansion and Real estate investments.
• Collaborate with other IKEA units and represent Group Expansion in various forums and meetings, whilst building Competence Development by providing stakeholders training materials to ensure Expansion Business Case and Investment Request Expertise.
• Responsible for managing goal setting, KPIs, budgets and follow up of for Group Expansion.
This role is located in Malmö, Sweden and reports to Investment & Operations Manager.


About this work area
With the customer at the heart of everything we do, Group Expansion takes responsibility for strategic expansion planning, enabling penetration of existing and new markets. We take the lead in the business development of existing and new customer meeting points. We act on business needs and empower the markets to maximise accessibility, implement our retailing concepts and fully utilise our assets in the new world of IKEA – all at the lowest cost, with an economy of scale and sustained profitability.


Apply now!
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 would 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”.
If you have any questions related to the role, please reach out to the Hiring Manager Adam Petersson at adam.petersson@ingka.ikea.com. If you have questions regarding the recruitment process, please feel free to contact the Recruiter Julia Schnittger (julia.schnittger@ingka.ikea.com).
We look forward to receiving your application in English as soon as possible but please no later than the 20th January 2023. A background check will be part of the recruitment process for the final candidate. Please note that we will be reviewing applications on a continuous basis.
We are looking forward to hearing from you!