Product Manager - Marketing & Communication

We are looking for someone that's passionate about product, technology and people with the passion to coach and develop great product teams, facilitating good teamwork, and building fantastic products.  Your mission is to deliver common M&C digital capabilities for IKEA to enable IKEA to deliver an attractive omnichannel experience, enabled by an effective digital work foundation for our co-workers. Preferable you have a good understanding and global experience of digital marketing and content management lifecycle and technologies. 

In your role as Digital Product Manager, you will lead and guide our digital product teams in the development of a common M&C technology foundation for IKEA customers and co-workers.  You will coach our managers and co-workers by ensuring they are constantly growing their skills, while solving complex problems that deliver value to our customers and co-workers. Additionally, you will contribute to company-wide initiatives as part of the leadership within IKEA. 

To succeed in this role you are self-motivated and creative and have the natural drive to learn and pick up new challenges.  You share our goal of creation of invincible data- and outcome-driven teams with empowered and motivated people​ 

Your assignment will include: 
Develop and lead common M&C digital capabilities e.g. digital platforms, products, data, services and workflows for IKEA 
Develop the digital product vision and long-term technology strategy for M&C in close collaboration with business and engineering  
Lead and align the roadmap of digital M&C capabilities ensuring consistency across the complete content flow 
Coordinate work across the digital capability areas and with the wider IKEA network 

Build, lead and develop empowered product teams with equal focus on product, technology, UX, Data and process 
Collaborate closely with business and technology stakeholders (including suppliers) to improve digital capabilities with learnings from best practices within software development and industry 
Drive Operational Excellence across team’s services 
Collaborate and contribute with product management teams in the global organizations to ensure alignment with group product mission and company-wide initiatives 
Qualifications 

The ideal candidate would be customer-oriented with a passion for bringing creativity to work. This role requires a candidate with excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills working with a cross-function stakeholders. 
You have a strong desire to continuously explore/develop digital solutions, to create a better everyday life for our customer/users and enabling long-term growth/profitability. 
Excellent communicator, listener and influencer, able to express and identify different point of views and argument priorities and decisions and striving to win-win with customers/users on top of mind. 
Proven track-record of leading digital development for digital platforms, with a good balance between customer/user experience and business focus, in a cross-functional development team. 
You have broad and in-depth understanding of market trends, new technologies and different digital components, and how to influence the customer/user journey in the overall product experience. 

Creative and innovative, able to challenge common ways of thinking. 
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a drive for result and optimization. 
Deep understanding of quantitative and qualitative research methods for actionable insights. 
Strong analytical, prioritization, and negotiating skills. 
Additional information 

We look forward to receiving your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English latest January 9th, 2022. Please note that we will be interviewing candidates continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidate. 

Position will be in Älmhult and will require some travelling. 

You will report to Ulrika Brodin, Digital Transformation Manager. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruitment Specialist Jakob Bergström at +46 70-147 48 90. 

Company Description 

At IKEA, we do things a little different. We think, differently. Act, differently. And work differently as well. We like to break things. Like rules. And then make things. Like music-playing lamps. And beds disguised as sofas. Even plantballs that help us look after our planet. It’s all part of our vision - to create a better everyday life for the many. And it’s been keeping our co-workers going for over 75 years. By 2030, we hope to help millions more look forward to going home. Maybe you can help us? 

We want to become an even more affordable, sustainable, and accessible home furnishing retailer in an omni-channel reality. We bring business and data & technology together to improve how we work and meet customers and enable us to focus on creating value. So we can continuously improve and scale IKEA, together with our partners and the many people. 

IKEA is on a transformation journey with the aim to combine our home furnishing knowledge with digital capabilities. The focus in our digitalization of marketing communication is to enable effective planning, creation and distribution of impactful content across all channels and markets, all while enabling collaboration with partners and external parties across the globe.