You are a passionate people leader who believes that people are the heart of the business. You have strong business acumen and enjoy partnering with leaders to create an engaging, inclusive, and high-performing workplace. You build trust through collaboration, coach leaders to achieve business goals, and inspire teams to develop their full potential.
You are someone who:
• Has a university degree with at least 4 years of relevant HR experience, or 10+ years of relevant experience in People & Culture/Human Resources. • Brings a minimum of 3 years of people management experience leading HR teams. • Has strong knowledge of employment laws, labour relations, HR policies, and compliance. • Demonstrates excellent stakeholder management, coaching, and influencing skills across all levels of the organization • Thinks strategically while remaining hands-on in delivering operational excellence. • Is passionate about developing leaders, building diverse teams, and creating positive co-worker experience. • Is comfortable leading change and driving continuous improvement in a fast-paced retail environment.
Your responsibilities
• Drive consistent delivery of P&C processes & frameworks across the market, ensuring consistency in co-worker experience. • Align and execute the IKEA people strategy to support talent attraction, development, and retention. • Lead diversity, inclusion, and gender balance initiatives across in the market. • Oversee P&C operations for key locations and ensure compliance with policies and ways of working. • Manage and coach a matrixed P&C team to effectively support business objectives. • Drive succession planning and talent reviews to build strong leadership pipelines. • Partner with business leaders to embed people priorities into strategic plans. • Coach managers on workforce planning, performance, engagement, and total rewards. • Maintain focus on matters of employee relations and labor compliances in the market. • Strengthen leadership capability and drive organizational effectiveness.
Together as a team
IKEA is all about people, and our team make sure to bring the best people on board to keep our strong spirit of togetherness. We believe that different experiences and backgrounds collectively make us wiser and stronger, and we ensure that our co-workers bloom into their best selves as they contribute to our business.
Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don't apply for jobs unless they're 100% "qualified". If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think. We look forward to receiving your application
