Senior Product Owner

Why we will love you
We are looking for a Senior Product Owner for the Competence Development area in our Talent Management team, People Domain, Group Digital.
We believe you share our IKEA values and that you are excited to join us in our journey to deliver IKEA’s learning eco system of tomorrow. You enjoy a real digital challenge, in an environment where everything is changing. You thrive on working in a complex cross-functional environment and demonstrate how strategic thinking can enable the business to achieve its objectives. You are passionate about working with other cultures but also about digital product development, working agile and are open to change.


A day in your life with us
On a day-to-day basis you will act as a trusted partner and work with business process owners to understand the needs of the business, prioritize activities and create the product roadmap. You will be a key member of the product team, working closely with engineering manager, a team of engineers and product specialists. You will set the product vision, strategy, OKRs and create product roadmap to achieve the defined outcomes and deliver value to our users. You will ensure that we measure our initiatives and deliverables against the expected outcome and would have critical mindset if an initiative needs to be stopped or re-evaluated.
You will step into the area of Talent Management within the People Domain of Group Digital which includes such capability areas as Recruitment and Sourcing, Performance and Succession and Competence Development. Within the Competence Development area, we work with digital solutions to deliver learning experience, learning management solutions, learning content, analytics and skills. It is an area of many off-the-shelf solutions that need to be taken into a DevOps way of working while improving the co-worker experience.


As a Senior Product Owner, you will:
• Set vision, strategy and metrics for products – existing solutions and to-be developed products
• Manage time, cost, scope, risk, communication, quality and change for the products
• Actively research co-worker needs and incorporate improvements into the roadmap
• Define OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) for your product together with the team and key stakeholders and ensure the team is aligned and working towards the same goals
• Guide and support the team to ensure everyone is performing to the best of their ability
• Document learnings, adopt a continuous improvement approach and transfer learnings to the teams


Ideally your background would include the following:
• Experience of working in senior product management roles within digital product development organisations
• Experience of working with agile product teams
• Experience with HR technology, preferably with both custom build and off-the-shelf solutions
• Strong leadership skills and ability to lead by example
• Stakeholder management and ability to build strong interpersonal relationships enabling you to understand, influence and collaborate successfully with a variety of stakeholders in a complex organization
• Data informed and outcome driven mindset
• Preferably knowledge of talent management platforms such as e.g. SAP SuccessFactors
• Preferably knowledge in JIRA and Confluence


This role is an open-ended contract and will be located in Helsingborg, Sweden.


Together as a team
At IKEA we believe in people and that we are always better together. Within Group Digital we set the digital agenda to keep IKEA leading in an uncertain and fast-moving environment. We drive the development, provision and operation of our digital products and services through the use of new and existing technology and agile delivery methods to deliver at pace. At the same time, we provide a home for digital skills to both develop and extend the technical, people and business skills needed to ensure continuous development and growth of our digital capability.
You will join the People Domain within Group Digital and report to the Product Manager, Talent Management.