Job Description

Do you have a passion for home furnishings and creating a great offer? Are you inspired by people’s real life at home? Are you motivated by reaching more of the many people through a desirable and affordable range offer? Are you interested in leading the product development process, change and improvements, keeping the consumer and the business in focus and delivering products with quality and speed? Then this might be the right opportunity for you!

About the role

As Project Controller you lead project progression within the IKEA product development process to ensure that the development team delivers to project ambitions and the time plan throughout the project. You lead project planning, tracking and follow‐up and secure that the team delivers to the project brief and in compliance with the product development process.

This role is a permanent position and located in Älmhult, Sweden. In this role you will report to Johanna Meuller, Team Manager Range, and belong to the Range function at Range Area Seating.

Your main responsibilities as Project Controller are:

Project management including project planning, tracking and follow up according to project ambition, time plan and KPI’s.
Proactively lead the product development process, secure process compliance and continuous process improvement.
Administration of the range for the assigned area.
Capture and document project learnings and secure that these are utilized in future projects.
You will lead project team meetings and co-lead team development.

Qualification

We are looking for a goal-oriented team player with the communicative ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders and engage people by creating a commitment to objectives, plans and processes. You have an eye for details and excellence in operations. You can analyze, draw conclusions and understand how decisions and processes impact the totality.

To be successful in this role we expect you to have:

Experience from leading or coordinating projects
Project management and leadership skills
An academic degree within Business Administration, Project Management, Economics, or equivalent work experience
Knowledge from Microsoft Office and project management tools
Be fluent in written and verbal English

Additional information

If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Range Team Mgr, Johanna Meuller at Johanna.meuller@inter.ikea.com. For questions regarding the recruitment process, you are welcome to contact Recruiter, Jonas Levin, at jonas.levin@inter.ikea.com. Due to winter break we might be slow in communication.

Register your CV and answer below questions (the questions is replacing the motivational letter) no later than August 10. We are looking forward to receiving your application. You will be able to contact Johanna Meuller with questions but she might be slow in answering due to vacation.

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