Recruitment Leader

Hej Recruitment Leader,

Do you want to go to work and help create a better life at home?

With us, you can feel at home in your work while sharing that feeling with millions of people around the world. We encourage you to stand up for yourself and others, creating an environment where everyone feels welcome. We invite you to open new doors, embrace mistakes, and grow from them. As our Recruitment Leader, you’ll have many opportunities to try things you’ve never done before.

Your new job

As our temporary Recruitment Leader (1 year assignment) at Inter IKEA Enabling Functions and Retail Concept, you’ll play an important part in the team. In this role, you will operationally lead the recruitment team, ensuring smooth day-to-day delivery and excellent candidate and hiring manager experiences, while also contributing to the long-term development of recruitment capabilities that will define how we attract and hire talent across the organisation. You’ll work at both strategic and hands-on levels, and continue to build sustainable, data-driven, and inclusive recruitment practices.

On a typical working day, you will:

• Lead and coordinate the daily operations of the recruitment team (internal and external recruiters), ensuring quality delivery
• Ensuring an outstanding candidate experience and serving as a talent advisor to the business
• Working proactively on forecasting and advanced planning of talent needs through recruitment data and recruitment analytics
• Ensuring an outstanding candidate experience and serving as a talent advisor to the business
• Identify synergies and common ways of working for an efficient and effective recruitment process
• Stay up-to-date on industry trends and best practices in recruitment, and provide recommendations for new tactics and strategies to enhance the effectiveness of recruitment activities
• Be the speaking partner, both internal and external, for common recruitment, sourcing and employer brand initiatives    
• Utilize and advocate for global platforms, tools, programs, and direct recruiting techniques to identify, attract, and engage qualified candidates for assigned and anticipated vacancies
• Secure integration of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion approach and knowledge into all steps of the recruitment experience
• Lead, participate and/or contribute in projects and networks connected to Talent & Development to secure a grip on the total competence agenda

What we’d like you to bring to the table

The role as a Recruitment Leader requires you to bring:

• Experience in leading strategic and operational recruitment in large, complex or matrixed organisations.
• Experience with recruitment analytics, workforce planning, and using data to drive recruitment decisions.
• Strong expertise in sourcing strategies, selection methods, candidate assessment, and recruitment process development.
• Solid understanding of employer branding, recruitment marketing, and delivering exceptional candidate experiences.
• Experience in improving recruitment processes, with focus on quality, efficiency, and inclusion.
• Up-to-date knowledge of recruitment trends, tools, platforms, and systems.

It’s a plus if you’re also:

• Curious, adaptable, and eager to learn about new ways of working and different business contexts.
• Motivated to drive meaningful improvements and find better ways to work—individually and in teams.
• Energised by collaboration, co-creation, and working across functions and cultures.
• Having a strong personal commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all recruitment activities.
• An excellent communicator who listens, adapts to different audiences, and builds strong relationships across stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with complexity and balancing both strategic thinking and hands-on delivery.

Be yourself, a Recruitment Leader, and more!

Inter IKEA Group is the group of companies that connects IKEA franchisees with range development and suppliers and aligns the overall IKEA strategic direction. Every day, we strive to develop, produce and sell products and services that are affordable and accessible to everyone. With us, you contribute to building a democratic brand and workplace that has a positive impact on both the planet and people's lives.

Your health, wellbeing, and development matter most to us, and our benefits are designed with you in mind. As a co-worker and a person, you are an essential part of our down to earth, playful, and inclusive culture, collaborating with others across roles, departments, and even across the globe. In this curious and optimistic environment, you’ll find endless opportunities to grow. Make us the home of your career.

Get ready to assemble something new!

This is a temporary role for 1 year, based in Malmö, Sweden. The Recruitment Leader will report to the People & Culture Operations Team Manager. We look forward to receiving your application by 19th of June, 2025.

At IKEA, we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. You’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. We believe that people’s different perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities make us better at understanding our customers’ dreams and needs. At IKEA we’re all on the same project.

If you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process, just let us know.  

For any questions about the role or recruitment process, feel free to reach out to our current Recruitment Leader Angelica Svensson at angelica.svensson1@inter.ikea.com.