About this role
To succeed in this role, you have several years of experience from product development and design and strategic business development within IKEA. You are used to lead people, projects and facilitate bigger groups around complex questions and deliver results. You have a passion and understanding of business development, sustainability and the relation to product development. You naturally use a structured way of working and follow up your progress. You have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to lead yourself, your work, build strong relationships, as well as influence and challenge. You have an interest in home furnishing and, perhaps the most important part, you always, always have the customer in mind in all that you do! As Range leader for Circular range you are responsible to lead, develop and support the transformation of the range into 100% Circular products by 2030. Meaning leading the implementation of the design principles within the organization. You will do this by leading further development of the design principles, measurements, tools and new ways of working. You will build the relevant competence within the organization including leading the circular super user team. You will work in close cooperation with the overall circular team, Range and Product development, NB&I, HFB´s and Sustainability team in an environment with many different stakeholders both within and outside of IKEA. Circular IKEA is one of the roads forward to reach many more of the many people with smarter use of resources, by prolonging the life of products and materials, giving them more value within the limits of one planet. Our first step of the circular journey is to prepare our range and supply functions for a circular business. This means developing our product offer according to the circular design principles and our supply chain to use resources smarter, with more renewable, recycled materials, while minimizing waste. Parallel to this, we will explore future business opportunities to better understand how IKEA can continue to grow and do business within the limits of one planet. We also acknowledge the changing customer behaviours, and will stay relevant to their ambitions to not be wasteful.