Project Controller – Range & Product Innovation

Can you really reach out to the whole world, creating a better everyday life for the many people? In Älmhult, Sweden you can. Älmhult is home to IKEA of Sweden. Here the IKEA range is developed and made available to stores and customers all over the world. We are here to offer a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. That is our promise, and we do this every day with great passion and energy.

Innovation and entrepreneurship need to be our key driving forces also in developing IKEA for the future – to be relevant and able to create a better everyday life for the many in the decades to come.

About Range & Product Innovation Support
Ensuring that the total Range innovation portfolios are kept united, structured and effective, as well as providing access to critical expertise capabilities and competences.

If you are motivated to be part of the team supporting revolutionary and disruptive innovations that will shape the future life at home, then this may just be the next job for you!

We are now looking for a Project Controller.

As Project Controller within R&P Innovation you support several teams. You work closely with Innovation Deployment with the purpose of fast lane test of new innovations directly with customers/relevant partners, e.g. by launching small scale productions into selected markets for complete verification and validation, where you lead project planning, tracking and follow‐up, start new article numbers and secure that the team delivers to project ambition.

You support Innovation Development with administration of new projects, agreements and assignment orders. Finally, you support the PMO for the Range Innovation Council portfolio with different topics connected to projects and portfolio management.

In the role you will be reporting to Innovation Support Manager.

Your main responsibilities as Project Controller in Range & Product Innovation are:
•    Responsible for project management including project planning, tracking and follow up, according to project goal, time plan and KPI’s.
•    Proactively lead the product development processes, secure process compliance and continuous process improvement.
•    Capture and document project lessons learned and utilize these learnings in new projects.
•    Administration of the range in the internal product information system and of the projects in the project management tool.
•    Administration of agreements and assignment orders
•    Support in project and portfolio management connected to Range Innovation Council portfolio.

The position is permanent, full time and based out of Älmhult, Sweden.
If you have questions about the position, please contact recruiting manager Robert Carleke at +46 70 960 75 37. If you have questions related to the recruitment process, please contact Christina Appelqvist +46 76 611 34 08.

We look forward to receiving your application in English, at the latest 2 of June  2021.

Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidates. So don’t delay, please send us your application today.