Daily Sustainability Job Post

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Position Overview:

WHY WE WILL LOVE YOU

• Proven advanced training in Sustainability (or other relevant area)
• Minimum 5 years of senior experience from working with strategic sustainability and/or business leadership
• Minimum 10 years of work experience, preferably from within IKEA (understanding how to make things happen)
• Experience with leading in change
• Experience and previous exposure to both external and internal business leadership
• Strong documented leadership skills
• Preferred: Retail market experience
• Preferred: Knowledge of IKEA Brand, culture, values and way of working

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY

• Overall responsible for the integration and implementation of the sustainability People & Planet Positive strategy, through clearly defined accountabilities and responsibilities in the business and supporting as a competent business partner, while securing local relevance.
• By understanding consumers in the market, be the voice of sustainability working across the business where decisions are made to set the People & Planet Positive requirements on the total country organization, empowering others to deliver.
• Integrating the sustainability agenda across all markets, customer meeting points, stores and units.
• Applying approved methods and tools from Group Sustainability to connect with relevant SO functions to all units to coach, guide and mentor in closing the gap performance.
• Working with others to help solve the challenges of the business with both a growth and purpose driven mind-set.
• Secure country adaption of the global direction and ambitions. Develop and continually maintain an outside-in perspective, following and listening for trends, topics and future thinking.
• Conception, exploration and business case development projects in partnership with Group Sustainability, or when needed, drive country specific development projects.
• Create and maintain a performance culture across the whole organization.
• Be an effective external and internal spokesperson, participate in advocacy activities, events, networking and empower others (e.g. country and store managers) to become sustainability spokespersons.
• Secure positive impact on local communities where IKEA operates through deep understanding of the local communities and co-creating with identified key local stakeholders.
• Empowering and engaging all co-workers in creating a new IKEA with sustainability at the core by working together with the sustainability matrix, contributing and sharing key learnings.

TOGETHER AS A TEAM
Some would call us idealists who want to change the world, but we are firm believers that we actually can have a positive impact on people, society and planet. We put our heads together to solve the big questions: how IKEA products can become circular by using material and resources in the best way, how to improve the lives of the people who create our products, and how IKEA can benefit the communities where we operate.

WHY YOU WILL LOVE US
From the deep forests in Sweden, we have spread our culture and values around the world. At the heart of our offer are our beautiful home-furnishing products and solutions, made with care for our planet, reaching millions of customers. At the heart of our business, are our wonderful co-workers representing diversity in all dimen­sions and passionate for life at home. We all contribute with our uniqueness and we want to grow and develop together. Our vision, “to create a better everyday life for the many people” inspires and guides us in everything we do. This is IKEA.

WHAT WE ALL HAVE IN COMMON

• Living our values
• Being your unique self, while respecting and including others
• A passion for home furnishing
• Performing & delivering while learning & developing
• Having fun!