Digital Product Area Manager - IKEA Marketing & Communication AB (IMC)
Inter IKEA Group connects IKEA franchisees with range development and suppliers and ensures alignment of the overall IKEA strategic direction. Every day, we strive to develop, produce, and sell products and services that are affordable and accessible to everyone.
The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people – and we’re always searching for new and better ways to do it. We use our home furnishing knowledge to create products and solutions that will enable more people to live the life they want. Through creativity, IKEA Marketing & Communication connects the heart of IKEA to the hearts and minds of the many people.
We are based in Älmhult, Sweden – the heart of IKEA. From here, we create, produce and deliver inspiring content that helps our retail markets grow and strengthens IKEA as a purpose-led brand and expert in life at home. We are proud of our craftsmanship and believe it should always go hand in hand with technology. As marketing and communication continue to evolve, we are simplifying the way we work, speeding up development and continuously improving how we create, produce and distribute high quality content at scale.
We are recruiting a Digital Product Area Manager for the Capability Area, reporting to the Capability Area Manager.
Our team is based in Älmhult, Sweden. We believe that your presence with the team and working most of the time in the workplace is important.
Your next role
This role is a natural next step for someone ready to lead with both business and people in a digital context. As Digital Product Area Manager, you will be part of the newly formed Capability Area within IMC, enabling greater simplicity, consistency and efficiency in how IKEA content is created, produced and distributed across our markets. You will lead the development and operations of the digital products in your portfolio, manage a group of Digital Product Leaders, create the conditions for empowered teams to deliver user and business value, and contribute to a clear direction and roadmap that supports both business needs and long-term capability development. In this role, you will report to the Capability Area Manager and work closely with the Business Process Partner group, the Capability Area Planning Leader, stakeholders across IMC and beyond to turn strategy into impactful outcomes.
You will be accountable for the assigned portfolio of digital products and platforms, securing running business, support and service performance, and development progress. Together with your digital product teams and partners, you will shape priorities, follow up on performance, and help build a strong product area with clear goals, aligned ways of working and a strong value focus for users and the business.
On a typical working day, you will:
What we’d like you to bring to the table
The role as a Digital Product Area Manager requires:
It’s a plus if you also bring:
We welcome your application
We look forward to receiving your application by 7th of July at the latest. Apply by submitting your CV and please note that we do not ask for a cover letter in this recruitment process. Instead, you will have the opportunity to tell us more about you and your experience through the screening questions in the application system.
If you have any questions about the role or the recruitment process, or if you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process, feel free to contact the Recruiter Jonas Levin at jonas.levin@inter.ikea.com
Note that due to vacations we will not be able to respond to any questions after the 7th of July. And due to the same reason, the selection for interviews will not start before the first week of August why you shouldn’t expect any communication from us before.
We always recruit based on values, competence, potential and diversity. For this position, we will first consider co-workers employed at Inter IKEA Group but we welcome external candidates to apply.
ONE BRAND, MANY COMPANIES AND MANY, MANY PEOPLE
We’re a diverse group of down-to-earth, straightforward people with a passion for home furnishing. We come from all over the world, but we share an inspiring vision: “to create a better everyday life for the many people”.
How we realise this vision is based on our shared humanistic values. These values are the foundation of our work and our inclusive, open and honest culture where you can be yourself. Our culture is based on the spirit of togetherness, enthusiasm and fun. And we’re always looking for people who share our positive attitude and values.
IKEA unites thousands of co-workers and hundreds of companies with different owners, all over the world, organised in a franchise system. It’s one brand but it reaches millions of hearts and homes.
ABOUT INTER IKEA GROUP
The purpose of Inter IKEA Group is to secure continuous improvement, development, expansion and a long life of the IKEA Concept. It has three core businesses: Franchise, Range & Supply and Industry.
• Inter IKEA Systems B.V. is the owner of the IKEA Concept and the worldwide IKEA franchisor. The assignment is to continuously develop the IKEA Concept and to ensure its successful implementation in existing and new markets. 11 different groups of companies own and operate IKEA sales channels under franchise agreements with Inter IKEA Systems B.V. A large group of franchisees are owned & operated by INGKA Group. Inter IKEA Systems B.V. also assigns different IKEA companies to develop range, supply and communication.
• IKEA Range & Supply is responsible for developing and supplying the global IKEA range. This means working with the whole value chain: from the needs and wants of the many people, through product development and the sourcing of raw materials, to a product’s end-of-life.
• IKEA Industry is the largest producer of wooden furniture in the world and manufactures wood-based furniture for the IKEA product range. We can offer a wide variety of exciting roles and assignments - from product development to production and from distribution and store design to interior design. And much, much more! And we’re always looking for people who have the desire to learn and grow professionally right along with our business.
We can offer a wide variety of exciting roles and assignments - from product development to production and from distribution and store design to interior design. And much, much more! And we’re always looking for people who have the desire to learn and grow professionally right along with our business.
