People & Culture Manager

IKEA Industry  

IKEA Industry, part of the Inter IKEA Group, is the world’s largest producer of wooden furniture and is an integrated part of the IKEA value chain. As IKEA’s own furniture manufacturer our role is to offer a unique advantage for IKEA as a world leader in home furnishing.

IKEA Industry has 32 production units, across 16 sites in 7 countries: Poland, Slovakia, Portugal, Sweden, Lithuania, China and Hungary.

Our operations include forestry, sawmills, boards, component and furniture production. IKEA culture and values shape everything we do. Not only do the IKEA values bring us together, they also help us to do business successfully.

At IKEA Industry Zbąszynek, we specialize in crafting beautiful furniture using wood-based materials through advanced Board on Frame (BoF) and Board on Stile (BoS) technologies. 

As an integral part of the Zbąszynek and Orla Manufacturing Area, we are committed to supplying IKEA stores across the globe with an array of furniture from esteemed collections including KALLAX, LACK, BUSUNGE, BYAS, TINGBY, MICKE, PAHL, SKADIS, VISTHUS, SUTTERVIKEN, SMEVIKEN, BESTÅ, PLATSA, UPPFÖRA, SMÅSTAD, and EKET.

People and Culture Manager

At IKEA, our culture and values empower us to take bold risks and embrace mistakes as learning opportunities. We prioritize innovation, speed, and adaptability, always with a focus on maintaining low costs to drive creativity. By working together, we will make IKEA an exceptional workplace characterized by a swift, efficient, and straightforward organization. We view diversity as a strength and celebrate the uniqueness each team member brings.

Let’s continue to advance IKEA as the employer of choice, fostering a collaborative environment where we thrive together, enhance our brand, and expand our business. As a People and Culture Manager, you will play a key role in achieving this vision.

Your Role

As a People and Culture Manager, you will act as a business partner for the Site Manager and other leadership colleagues, collaborating with them on all people-related activities. Together with your People and Culture team, you will lead efforts to ensure that people strategies are effectively implemented at a local level, creating a work environment where IKEA values and culture are a living reality.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive and follow up on the efficient and effective implementation of overall P&C processes and yearly activities in your unit.
• Lead the implementation of IKEA People Strategy and relevant plans for your unit to meet business needs for today and tomorrow, ensuring all coworkers experience collaborative environment where we thrive together and expand our business.
• Lead the people and culture agenda and connected initiatives in your unit with the ambition of creating a successful and high-performing organization.
• Secure the right competence in the unit to execute P&C processes in the best possible way.
• Contribute to identifying and building up competence and leadership for your unit.
• Ensure P&C compliance with labor laws, relevant regulations, and internal requirements.
• Facilitate strong value chain competence through development opportunities, learning, and succession within the business unit, Inter IKEA, and IKEA network to secure the right competence at the right place and time.
• Safeguard the implementation and adherence to People Principles (organizational and design principles).
• Drive a healthy work environment and nurture a constructive and cooperative dialogue with social partners to find sustainable business and people solutions to opportunities and challenges.
• Contribute to making IKEA an equal, diverse, and inclusive workplace.
• Ensure the site is at the forefront of various People & Culture activities and is ready to support and share knowledge, good examples, and best practices with other Industry sites and IKEA organizations.

About You

We believe that you are a true role model for IKEA values and have a passion for developing both business and people. To be successful in this role, you should have leadership experience with a proven record of developing people and organizations locally within a global framework, as well as participating in global projects. Your passion for creating engaging coworker experiences is essential. Additionally, we value your strong desire to find new opportunities, make things happen, and foster togetherness, belonging, and trust across your unit.

You possess excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-changing environment, enabling you to interact naturally with people at different levels in the organization and achieve remarkable results.

Come join us and contribute to the IKEA journey where we thrive together while strengthening our brand and growing the business!

You will report to the Site Manager and will be responsible for leading the People and Culture team for the unit. In your role, you will also serve as the People and Culture Leader for both the Zbąszynek and Orla Manufacturing Area.

This is a full-time, permanent position based in the IKEA Industry office in Zbąszynek.

If you have questions about the position, please contact Site Manager:
Malgorzata Dobies-Turulska, malgorzata.dobies-turulska@inter.ikea.com

Have you become enthusiastic and do you see yourself in this role? Great! 

We look forward to receiving your application in English latest on April 30th, 2025