Meeting Place Manager Älmhult/Kållered

Why we’ll love you
Because you have a creative personality with entrepreneurial ideas, and a great deal of motivation of leading your team and making your Meeting place thrive!
This role is for you who have Älmhult in your heart, dreaming of developing Älmhult's Handelsplats into something that makes Älmhult even more dynamic, attractive and relevant for the many people. You have high ambitions and like to have a lot going on, that’s why we believe that you also have the capacity to lead Shopping Park Kållered, Gothenburg!
You enjoy having the very important role as a Meeting Place Manager, both responsible for the strategic direction of the Meeting place, as well as leading safe business operations, including the safety of the people working in the Meeting place.
You are driven to continuously increase visitation to the Meeting place and IKEA by always improving the customer journey and customer experience. You find new ways to make your Meeting place relevant, by continuously improve and provide a unique offer based on your deep knowledge, and ability to analyze and understand the daily needs and desires of your customers.
And, most of all, you have strong leadership capabilities and always act as a role model for your team by strongly believing and acting according to the IKEA values in everything you do. By developing a vision and strategy for the Meeting place, you inspire everyone who comes through the door – from co-workers, to customers, visitors, communities and partners. During the implementation of a specific project, you know exactly how to distribute responsibilities among the members of the Meeting place team in such a way as to make the most effective use of the professional skills of each of them.
A DAY IN YOUR LIFE WITH US
We used to call our Meeting places shopping centres or retail parks, but nowadays we prefer to refer to these marketplaces as Meeting places as they offer so much more than just shopping. With our local customers in focus, we want to offer places where people want to come to socialize and create great memories!
As Meeting Place Manager for both Älmhult Handelsplats and Shopping Park Kållered, your task is to run and develop Meeting places that exceed our customers' expectations. In Älmhult Handelsplats, you will also be part of strengthening IKEA and Älmhult, through our active local community engagement, at the place where it all began.
More specifically, you will:
· develop the business and the offer; for instance through overseeing our great event arena in Älmhult: Live!
· lead a Meeting Place team in the daily work as well as in strategy and business planning
· develop a range of unique, interesting and attractive retailers and services for both Meeting places that meet the needs and desires of our visitors
· work together with IKEA to enhance our common customer experience, increase conversion, deliver operational results and increase the value of the Meeting places
· engage and invite the local community and its residents to jointly implement ideas and projects at our Meeting places that create a better everyday life for the many people
· through your leadership, constantly strive to make the Meeting places the best possible workplace for our partners/tenants
· take responsibility for our sustainability agenda and act to ensure that we meet our ambition goals for becoming people & planet positive
About Ingka Centres
We’ve embarked on an exciting journey to transform our shopping centres into destinations always anchored by IKEA, and that go way beyond shopping, offering a carefully selected series of activities, events and initiatives tailored to the needs of the communities that surround them.
That’s what we call “Meeting places”.
As a long-term partner of IKEA, we share our vision, our culture and our values, while what makes our businesses different is the way we fulfil our vision. If the idea of IKEA is to create a better life at home, we work hard to create a better everyday life outside of the home by developing virtual and physical Meeting places where people can meet shop, and connect with their communities.
We have big plans for the future that involve expanding to new locations, opening smaller-scale concepts closer to the city centres, digitalisation, and most of all, living up to shared sustainability goals. We’re constantly looking for energetic, purpose-led and creative people who’d like to join us on our journey to create Meeting places around the world.
About our two Meeting places in Älmhult and Kållered
Älmhult is the birthplace of IKEA, and Älmhults Handelsplats wants to play an active role in the community to strengthen both IKEA and Älmhult municipality. Älmhults Handelsplats is a retail park with 19 retailers. In Älmhult we also have the exciting Älmhult Live!; an event arena for Meetings, events, exhibitions and more.
Shopping Park Kållered, Gothenburg, is a retail park of 20 retailers. It is also a development project, with exciting plans for the future. We are neighbors with the great new IKEA store, soon to be open.
Sounds exciting? There’s a lot more to know about us! Take a look at our website, read our stories and try to imagine how you can be part of our team helping us reach our goals!
Questions and support? Let’s connect!
The position is based in Älmhult, but part of your time you will also be on site at Shopping Park Kållered in Gothenburg. Your manager will be Lars Wild-Nordlund, our Cluster Operations Manager.
Perhaps there’s something you’re wondering? Or maybe you’d like to know more details? Do you have questions about the recruitment process? Please contact Hektor Thomke at hektor.thomke@ingka.com
We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, though no later than 2022-09-11.
We can’t wait to receive your application!