About this role
ABOUT YOU In D&I we are all passionate problem solvers with boundless energy, good idea and passion to deliver fantastic solutions for our customers! We see that you have solid experience from leading creative ideation processes/programmes within global organisations including navigating, enabling and facilitating complex organisational questions to enable the realisation of these ideas. With your inspiring business leadership, you have strong ability to deliver results on a functional and enterprise perspective level. Furthermore, it is important that you are good at creating trustful relationships and collaboration across functions with ability to influence and have impact on senior level. We are looking for someone who can think outside the box, conceptualise and dare to try new ways – you will be visionary, courageous and disruptive to look for new and better ways forward. Your deep focus and passion should be for making a difference to our customers! You also have: • Knowledge about business innovation and development in FMCG/multichannel environment • Strong, highly developed collaboration skills with proven networking capabilities • Experience in creating internal and external partnerships to support exploration and ideation • Strong financial acumen and commercially minded in your approach to business, development and innovation ABOUT THE JOB As Exploration and Ideation Manager, you will lead INGKA in the establishment of Exploration and Ideation – all with a passion for the customer with our culture and values as the foundation. You will do this by leading the creation of methodologies, tools and tools to support systematic exploration and ideation and convert into ways of working to enable use in our everyday reality. You will also: • Identify and establish internal and external partners to support ongoing development of the function • Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure that we have the exploration and ideation competence when and where needed • Lead specific exploration cases to test and learn and turn into clear, solid concepts where we can move forward into value added, customer focused business cases • Support wide business use of exploration and ideation through communication and coaching We need to build new capabilities where our IKEA entrepreneurial spirit, curiosity and determination work towards exploring new possibilities, where new ideas are generated and turned into adding real value for our customer. That is the role of the Exploration and Ideation team – building new capabilities throughout INGKA and using these capabilities to transform ideas into reality. If you dare to ask, what if? Then you might be the one we are looking for!