Innovation & Development Leader
WHO YOU ARE
'- Holistic understanding and visionary leadership with ability to make complex tasks and processes understood and actionable
- Strong innovation management competences
- Well developed, strategic and analytical skills - Capability to prioritise and make decisions with speed and simplicity in a complex, unknown and fast-changing
environment
- Capability to collaborate and work in processes, engaging different IKEA competences in the network
- Capability to build a knowledge sharing network to enable constant learning within organization and beyond
- Excellent agile leadership capabilities – ability to lead, facilitate and influence/challenge stakeholders at varying levels of seniority, building trustful relations
- Ability to communicate verbally, visually, inspiring and in writing with IKEA tone of voice
- Business and commercial savvy
- Driving change; champions new methods, digital systems and processes to improve performance
- Have an entrepreneurial spirit
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
'- IKEA business knowledge and deep understanding of IKEA decision making
management structure and ways of working/ processes.
- Deep understanding of IKEA vision, business
- idea, business model, IKEA culture and - values & IKEA value chain
- Leadership experience working in a global matrix environment
- Deep knowledge of the retail industry and emerging practices and technologies and how IKEA can make use of these to build a competitive advantage
- Strong understanding of partnership management (tactical and strategic)
- Solid industry and market knowledge
- Good understanding of how global trends and developments can impact Ingka Centres and IKEA
- General business knowledge of high level complexity business with cross functional and organisational relations
- Deep understanding of how to take a strategy from development to deployment
- Good understanding of eco-systems and platforms
- Strong knowledge of how to identify and involve relevant stakeholders in a project,
process or question to make things happen
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Knowledge of how to adapt the business model to respond to business opportunities and constraints.
- Project Management; knowledge of how to initiate, plan, execute, control and close a project
- Knowledge of how to identify, build and maintain trustful relationships with partners in a responsible way, by selling and sharing an idea to collaborate around.
- Knowledge about the local meeting place business and ways of working to ensure
ways of supporting and leading IKEA people in the meeting place
TOGETHER AS A TEAM
To empower Ingka Centres to reach its objectives and goals by leading the forefront of new business and innovation, actively propelling transformation beyond our existing business model. Serve as a connection where ideas and initiatives are refined into practical, value-added, and commercially sustainable & impactful
solutions, that makes our business future proof.
'- Holistic understanding and visionary leadership with ability to make complex tasks and processes understood and actionable
- Strong innovation management competences
- Well developed, strategic and analytical skills - Capability to prioritise and make decisions with speed and simplicity in a complex, unknown and fast-changing
environment
- Capability to collaborate and work in processes, engaging different IKEA competences in the network
- Capability to build a knowledge sharing network to enable constant learning within organization and beyond
- Excellent agile leadership capabilities – ability to lead, facilitate and influence/challenge stakeholders at varying levels of seniority, building trustful relations
- Ability to communicate verbally, visually, inspiring and in writing with IKEA tone of voice
- Business and commercial savvy
- Driving change; champions new methods, digital systems and processes to improve performance
- Have an entrepreneurial spirit
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
'- IKEA business knowledge and deep understanding of IKEA decision making
management structure and ways of working/ processes.
- Deep understanding of IKEA vision, business
- idea, business model, IKEA culture and - values & IKEA value chain
- Leadership experience working in a global matrix environment
- Deep knowledge of the retail industry and emerging practices and technologies and how IKEA can make use of these to build a competitive advantage
- Strong understanding of partnership management (tactical and strategic)
- Solid industry and market knowledge
- Good understanding of how global trends and developments can impact Ingka Centres and IKEA
- General business knowledge of high level complexity business with cross functional and organisational relations
- Deep understanding of how to take a strategy from development to deployment
- Good understanding of eco-systems and platforms
- Strong knowledge of how to identify and involve relevant stakeholders in a project,
process or question to make things happen
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Knowledge of how to adapt the business model to respond to business opportunities and constraints.
- Project Management; knowledge of how to initiate, plan, execute, control and close a project
- Knowledge of how to identify, build and maintain trustful relationships with partners in a responsible way, by selling and sharing an idea to collaborate around.
- Knowledge about the local meeting place business and ways of working to ensure
ways of supporting and leading IKEA people in the meeting place
TOGETHER AS A TEAM
To empower Ingka Centres to reach its objectives and goals by leading the forefront of new business and innovation, actively propelling transformation beyond our existing business model. Serve as a connection where ideas and initiatives are refined into practical, value-added, and commercially sustainable & impactful
solutions, that makes our business future proof.
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