Talent Pipeline Manager

WHO YOU ARE
As a part of Center of Expertise with a global assignment, we believe that you are a natural leader and strong ambassador of our values with a true passion for talent, people and business!
We believe that you have extensive communication skills together with your ability to be a true influencer to the many people. You also have sharp analytical thinking that support your ability to confidently understand, navigate and take lead in a complex and interdependent environment with many different stakeholders around the globe.
You are truly passionate about the IKEA culture and values and drives engagement and commitment to develop the business and deliver business results, by working with and optimizing performance through what you like best - people!
In this role as our Talent Pipeline Manager we believe you have at least +10 years of wide international HR process experience with great success stories from implementing talent acquisition strategies and high-level recruitments by leading through and together with others either as a leader or manager. Preferable in a global matrix organization with cross-functional stakeholder management.
Furthermore, you enjoy working in a vibrant and changing multidimensional environment and have the capability of pending between hands-on creation work to leading more tactical and strategic initiatives and processes.


YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
In your everyday life with us you will be responsible for leading and developing Ingka Group Talent Pipeline approach. This includes framework and process as well as providing expertise in the design of targeted talent programs, solutions to accelerate the development of most talented co-workers and strengthen succession pipeline.


Your responsibilities would be:
• Focus on internal talent and to build a talent flow from the floor to our critical positions
• Identifying internal core functions where we need to increase talent flow and succession
• Drive the identification of pipeline and career paths towards the identified core functions
• Lead the work with talent spotting across the organisation which means that the team is responsible to go out to the local organisation and meet high potentials and talents in the stores and other units. The team is also responsible to organise talent days locally where individual co-workers can book a time and talk about their future opportunities
• High contributor in empowering the individual co-workers to be responsible for their career development and opportunities
• Developing, running and maintaining a high-quality Management Review process and Succession Planning together with different talent pools for identified core functions
• Develop and run assessment centers for current and future leaders. Ensures that development plans and actions, with recommendations, are created from the assessment results


As a manager, you will be leading a team of 3 people as Talent Leaders and report to a Talent Manager. The team is all located in Malmö and so will this position as well.
Travels can be applicable but only on occasional basis and mostly within Europe.
In this assignment, you will also be a part of the bigger team of Talent Management Leadership contributing across departments for best talent growth including Recruitment, Sourcing, Competence/Leadership and Learning development.
TOGETHER AS A TEAM
At the heart of our business are people. We create a better everyday life together by living our shared values and safeguarding our unique culture. To create an inspiring IKEA experience we need to make sure our co-workers have the preconditions to meet our customers in the best possible way. The purpose of the People and Culture function is to secure the competence and organisation to reach our business ambitions.
To succeed, we are focusing on three movements:
1. People choose IKEA for what we stand for
2. Engaged IKEA people with customers at heart
3. A modern, lean and agile IKEA fit for growth


QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT? LET'S CONNECT!
If you have any questions about the role or recruitment process, please contact Recruiter Malin Ackesjö at malin.ackesjo@ikea.com.
Please note that all applications will be sent in English and we do not process any application through email.
We will go through the applications continuously so please send in your application as soon as possible but no later than 8th of March.
We look forward to your application!