New Business and Innovation Leader

WHO YOU ARE
​All great things that has happened in the world, started in someone’s imagination. We need to envision, enable, and simplify the Ingka of tomorrow, to make IKEA better. ​We are on an exciting journey and are now recruiting talent to lead into the future.
You are passionate about creating an IKEA for the future through new business development and innovation. You are energized by increasing customer value, driving business growth and contributing to overall success and results through people. You have an excellent strategic business ability and drive to achieve strong results, both long and short term and you know how to balance and merge sustainability, social and economic aspects into the business with the purpose to develop and innovate the business within the limits of the planet.
Building strong and trustful relationships on different levels both inside and outside IKEA motivates you, as well as working together in an ever-changing environment. You are a strong communicator that motivates others to accomplish shared goals. That you are truly inspired by our vision to “create a better everyday life for the many people” and our culture & values is a given.
We believe you bring the following knowledge & experience:
· Solid experience from working with new businesses and strategic innovation.
· In depth knowledge of, and passion for people’s life at home, tech and how it can be applied to drive change.
· Taken new solutions from idea to launch and can navigate between design thinking, agile and lean processes as needed.
· Proven success in obtaining good results in developing a profitable business
· Know-how of solution validation from the perspectives of desirability, feasibility and viability.
· Strong management experience in high level complexity business with cross functional relations
· Strong IKEA business knowledge and deep understanding of IKEA decision making management structure and ways of working/ processes.
· Deep understanding of IKEA vision, business idea, business model & IKEA value chain.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
In this role you will lead strategic initiatives within a prioritized innovation area, orchestrating cross-competence teams to explore, develop and deploy new service business and innovative solutions to secure that Ingka and IKEA will be in the forefront to meet future challenges and opportunities.
· Lead strategic initiatives end-to-end to drive development in line with the innovation area business direction and goals
· Recruit, lead, develop and empower cross competence teams, ensuring the right partners are onboard and contributing to the creation of successful new businesses and innovative solutions.
· Oversee, manage and adjust the process, end-to-end, for assigned initiatives/projects within scope (timing, budget and result) according to the Develop New Solutions (DNS) process and methodology.
· Work together with portfolio leaders in order to update and adjust the development tool and create necessary documentation for decision bodies.
· Lead the development and creation of business cases, in accordance with the DNS process and methodology, to secure approval and progress in line with requirements.
· Work together closely with internal partners to ensure alignments, prioritization, and timely contributions to drive different initiatives in different stages of development (including explorations, acceleration programs, partnership, and ventures)
· Oversee and manage the innovation initiative within time and budget, setting goals and OKRs together with cross competence team
· Responsible for decision on “stop/pause” and “accelerate”, as well as prioritization and for identifying, mitigating and managing risks related to the initiatives.
You will report to the New Business & Innovation Area Manager and be based in Malmö, Sweden.

TOGETHER AS A TEAM
SD&I envisions, enables and ensures Ingka to deliver to set objectives and goals by leading a world class capability in strategy & insights, new business & innovation, exploration, portfolio & transformation, process & organizational effectiveness always with the aim to simplify.

QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT? LET'S CONNECT!
If you have any questions about the position, please feel free to contact Hiring Manager Alex Castro Pérez at alex.castro1@ingka.ikea.com
If you have questions about the recruitment process, please reach out to Sofia Samuelsson at sofia.samuelsson2@ingka.ikea.com .
Please submit your application in English to Julia Schnittger at julia.schnittger@ingka.ikea.com. We are screening applications continuously, so please send you application as soon as possible.