People & Culture Manager (Dyrektor d/s Personalnych)

IKEA Industry 

As the in-house manufacturing operations of IKEA, our role is to provide a unique advantage to IKEA as a global leader in home furnishings. With over 30 production units across 18 sites in 7 countries - Poland, Slovakia, Portugal, Sweden, Lithuania, China, and Hungary - we have a team of around 15,000 coworkers worldwide. The 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.

IKEA Industry furniture production goes back to 1991 when the company Swedwood was established with the purpose of ensuring IKEA continuous supply of furniture. Back then, it was a lot about creating the right capacities in the right location. Over time, as the world and the market change, the role for IKEA Industry has developed to the current wished position.  

Our wished position is to deliver outstanding customer value in material, manufacturing and distribution where we offer a unique advantage for IKEA as a world leader in home furnishing. We are in the lead and in tune with time. We contribute to the value chain in all customer meeting points through our forward-thinking industrial know-how, ability to innovate and entrepreneurial co-workers. We are the good example in all aspects of business, people and sustainability.

IKEA Industry is organized in 5 Manufacturing Areas.

IKEA Industry Resko is located in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, approximately 90 km from Szczecin. Established in 1994, it is one of the largest plants producing solid pine glue boards. These boards are used to craft beautiful wooden furniture, such as the HEMNES and IDANAS collections, at our Goleniów factory.

As a People and Culture Manager, you will act as a business partner for 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 and efficiently implemented into action on a local level, and facilitate a work environment where IKEA values and culture are a living reality.You will also:

• Drive and follow up efficient and effective implementation of overall P&C processes and yearly activities in your unit.
• Lead the work of implementing IKEA People Strategy, IKEA Industry People Plan and relevant plans for your unit to fulfil business needs for today and tomorrow with the ambition that all-coworkers experience a great place to work.
• Together with your team lead the people and culture  agenda and connected initiatives in your unit with the overall ambition to create a successful and high performing organisation.
• Secure the right competence in the unit to execute the P&C processes in the best possible way.
• Contribute to identify and build-up competence and leadership for your unit.
• Secure P&C compliance with the labour law and relevant regulations as well as with internal requirements.
• Facilitate a strong value chain competence through development opportunities, learning and succession within business unit, Inter IKEA and IKEA network to create competence movements securing the right competence at the right place in the right time.
• Safeguard People Principles are followed and implemented (organizational and design principles).
• Drive a healthy work environment and continuously nurture a constructive and cooperative dialogue with our social partners in order to find sustainable business and people solutions to opportunities and challenges 
• Contribute to make IKEA an equal, diverse, and inclusive workplace.

About You:
We believe that you are a true role model for the IKEA values and that you have a passion to develop both business and people.To be successful in this role you have leadership experience and proven record of developing people and organizations  locally within a global framework, as well as participating on global projects. Your passion for people and creating engaging co-workers experience for your colleagues is something we take for granted. We also believe that you desire to find new opportunities, make things happen and foster togetherness, belonging and trust across your unit  is strong. You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-changing environment, which enables you to interact naturally with people at different levels in the organization and achieve results.

You will report to Site Manager and you will be leading People and Culture for the unit.
You will cooperate closely with two other neighbour IKEA Industry unit around.

This is a full-time permanent position located in the IKEA Industry Resko. 

If you have questions about the position, please contact:

oskar.wyrwa@inter.ikea.com