Product Manager

at  IKEA

Job ID: R0005595
Date posted: 09/07/2024
Company description
The goal of IPEX - IKEA Planning experience is make it easy for the many to design a better everyday life at home. We run and develop digital solutions used by customers and co-workers enabling them to design homes and home furnishing solutions for the entire IKEA range for all IKEA retailers. Part of our portfolio are planning solutions for Kitchens, Bathrooms, Storage solutions, Beds…Our next big step ahead will be to enable customers to design their full homes.
Our customers should experience an inspiring, fun, simple and rewarding planning journey based on their needs and preferences. Our co-workers and service partners should experience a fun, efficient and unbroken sales process.
The solutions and capabilities we develop are an integral part of the entire seamless buying and selling experience and a key contributor to converting visitors into happy customers and to engaging with our customers from the start. Utilizing data around and about our products to create more personalized experiences is an integral part of the work we do.
IPEX deliver solutions to all IKEA retailers spanning over 50 markets worldwide and over 450 stores and IKEAs digital channels. All solutions are made to help customers and co-workers in all customer meetings, from a mobile phone to the largest IKEA store in the world.
Job description

You are passionate and curious about life at home and creating seamless and convenient experiences and really connect to the assignment of IPEX.
You are passionate about creating high performing, clever and easy to use solutions and working methods supporting co-workers when creating and developing the meeting with our customers.
You come with a strong Product mindset and agile approach and the ability to drive continuous outcome. You are able to take a holistic, strategic approach, but also deep dive into details and do when needed.
You bring experience and knowledge from working with software development and are familiar with agile/ devops practices.
You are a strong and experienced leader with the ability to lead, coach and develop the Product Owners reporting to you, no matter if it´s about the big picture or hands on support. You are passionate about end-user experiences, identifying and filling gaps and have the courage to question norms.
You are able to build strong relationship and trust with your peers and stakeholders. You are comfortable with complex prioritization and situations where priorities need to be discussed and agreed upon with strong and vocal stakeholders, to leverage your resources in the best way to achieve the strongest outcome.
You make mistakes sometimes that keep you evolving and learning as you are not afraid to find new ways to solve a challenging task together with your colleagues.
You enjoy an agile and iterative, yet structured way of working and achieving results together with a team in a flexible environment, but also have a strong individual drive to deliver high quality results on time. You have great communication and networking skills and are fluent in written and spoken English.
Travelling based on business needs will be necessary.
More Information
This role is full-time (40 hours per week) and is currently based in Malmö, Sweden. From January 1st 2025 this role will be based in our Älmhult office. Your assignment will require presence in Älmhult and Malmö based on business needs.
Interested? Send us your CV, in English, by Ausgust 4th 2024. There will be some delays in the process during the summer vacation and interviews will start in mid-August.
If you have any questions about the role, please connect with the Recruitment Partner Jamila Harmal via jamila.harmal2@inter.ikea.co