Team Manager Range - RA Cooking & Eating

If you love working in a fast-paced environment and enjoy taking on greater business responsibility and ownership, then this role is perfect for you!  

To cook and eat together is for many a way to share, not only a meal, but also to hang out together, share stories, traditions, discussions, and opinions. It’s a social activity, full of life and energy. Our goal is to support the many people in their everyday cooking and eating activities and deliver a wide range of products, designed for both cooking healthy in a sustainable way, and enjoying eating them together.  

We are a team of about 50 colleagues who work across the RA Cooking & Eating business. Together we focus on developing an excellent cooking & eating offer to enable a healthy, sustainable, and enjoyable life around food. For the many people and always with the low price in mind. At RA Cooking & Eating, we pride ourselves on our close-knit, collaborative team where every member's contribution is valued.   

As Team Manager you will report to the Range Manager and play a key role in shaping the future of our Range function at RA Cooking & Eating. You will be responsible for leading and developing both business and people. In close collaboration with your manager, you will define your business scope and how you can create the best pre-conditions for your team to succeed.  

You embody IKEA values and demonstrate strong leadership by leading by example. You act as a role model, coach, and motivator to your coworkers through you daily behaviours. are guided by IKEA values and your strong leadership capabilities as you lead by example and act as role model, coach and motivate your coworkers in your daily behaviors . You are comfortable leading your team in change and constant transformation. Staying close to your team, assign tasks and responsibilities and closely follow through, whilst creating a culture of developing business and people together.  

In this assignment you:   

• Act as a strong business partner, demonstrating initiative and the courage to question and challenge various topics.  
• Drive the leadership and competence agenda by identifying needs and gaps and building development plans to meet both short- and long-term business needs.  
• Proactively contribute your expertise and resources to product development within and across Range Areas and in creating the Range and Portfolio plan.  
• Utilize strong communication skills to share relevant information, listen actively, inspire confidence, and build networks and strong relationships  

Qualifications   

Further more:

• You have proven experience  in working with product development and range building with an entrepreneurial approach 
• You get energy following current trends / movements, colors, materials and are equally curious about customer needs  
• You are motivated and passionate about leading and developing people and making them excel in a constantly changing international working environment 
• You have a strong ability to see the bigger picture, identify relevant stakeholders, interact, and build strong relationships across 
• You have a strong ability to communicate, visualize and inspire in a clear way  
• You have a good ability to nurture a creative culture, enthusiasm, co-creation and growing the IKEA spirit 
• You have a degree level education in design, design management, assortment (range) management, product management, product development, or equivalent 

Application and practicalities  

Apply no later than April 11. Apply for the role by uploading your CV in Smartrecruiters (note; due to GDPR we are not able to handle any application via mail). Instead of a motivational letter please include your answers to these three questions:  

• What do you believe is your contribution to this position?  
• What values and strengths will come through in your leadership?  
• What inspires you when developing the IKEA Range and where do you find it?   

Please keep your answers short and concise. We are looking forward to receiving your application!  

This is a full-time job position, based in Älmhult, Sweden. We believe that your presence with the team and working the majority of the time in the workplace is important.

Questions about the recruitment process can be answered by Recruiter Jonas Levin, at jonas.levin@inter.ikea.com  

If you have questions regarding the position, please contact Range Manager Petra Kammari Enarsson, petra.enarsson@inter.ikea.com