LEASE CATEGORY MANAGER - INGKA CENTRES

WHO YOU ARE
Do you enjoy working in an ever-changing environment, where finding new solutions and developing the business will be a natural part of your everyday life? Welcome to Ingka Centres! As our new Lease Category Manager, you are a true entrepreneurial and change agent, meaning that you will not settle for the regular solutions. No, your motivation lies in challenging processes, methods and ways of working to create real change. Copy paste is not your game, let’s go reinvent the business!


Being the colleague that love and embrace change, you are able to sell the ideas and inspire your stakeholders and coworkers to join the journey.


Since you will be having direct reports from different countries, we also value your leadership skills and see that you have previous experience from leading in a global matrix organisation. You are an inspiring leader, with great communications skills, who enjoys building strong relationships – even when they are remote. You like being in a role where you can develop our business, create a genuine sense of togetherness in your team and create motivation to help achieve organizational goals.


To succeed in the role, we believe that you have:


• A substantial professional background within in shopping center and/or retail leasing, preferably coming from working in international organisations.
• Experience in business development, finding of new business opportunities including identification and implementation.
• Knowledge within the retail and/or real-estate industry.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a managerial position.


And, of course, you share and live the IKEA culture and values. You see things a little differently. So do we.


A DAY IN YOUR LIFE WITH US
Ingka Centres is in the middle of an exciting journey where we create and develop Meeting Places, into something that exceeds our visitor’s expectations! As our Lease Category Manager, you will have a key function in this journey, where you will be identifying and communicating the trends and facilitating the development of strong partnerships with vital players on a global level. Together we create sustainable and maximised revenues, based on the offer defined by the Meeting Places and aligned with customer and market needs.


In this role you will be able to combine the global responsibility in driving the category with your geographical assignment, where you have the responsibility over a group of countries in Europe. You will have a senior role, being accountable for coaching and advising leasing teams, managing key tenants and the overall result for your area.


Moreover, you will:


• Coordinate the strategies for your category with the overall leasing direction.
• Secure that established goals for rental income for assigned Hub and category are delivered.
• Lead strategic negotiations with key partners though close coordination with leasing teams to achieve excellence in deal making.
• Align the messages towards partners through all communication channels, aiming to improve cooperation, partners experience and increase future revenue.
• Closely cooperate with other areas to trigger new potential partnerships and initiatives within the category, potentially involving existing or new partners.
• Collaborate with Meeting Places on defining key account management developments and intended portfolio deals.
• Work with expansion and development team to bring Leasing expertize to new and redevelopment projects.
• Build strong cooperation with IKEA Retail at country level, promoting the exchange of information and market knowledge.


TOGETHER AS A TEAM
Ingka Centres provides local communities with Meeting Places that offer many reasons to visit – always anchored by IKEA and together with many inspiring partners. We attract many people, every day by offering places to shop, eat, socialize and experience things together. Today we provide 47 Meeting Places in 14 countries and we have big exciting plans for the future. Read more about us here: https://www.ingkacentres.com/en


The purpose of the Operations function, where leasing belongs to, is to optimise the Meeting Place experience for the many people and deliver sustainable business growth for our Partners and Meeting Places. Moreover to, achieve operational results, drive efficiency improvements and enhance commercial performance and brand value of the Meeting Places.


The role will be placed in Malmo, Sweden. Warmly welcome with your application!