Digital Portfolio & Deployment Leader

Enthusiasm, togetherness, and a "get-it-done" attitude is what our IKEA culture is built upon. We're optimists, constantly looking for new and better ways to do things. We believe that you, as us, will thrive when meeting incredible people that are on the same mission at IKEA. People who are humble, supportive, and absolutely committed to leading home-furnishing retail into the future and creating a better life for many people by putting the customer at the heart of all we do.

Join our team as Digital Portfolio & Deployment Leader at IKEA South-East Europe

Why working in IKEA is so much more than a job?

We're a company that cares about the lives of our co-workers. It's important for us that you feel respected, acknowledged, and included. No matter what position we hold at IKEA, you'll have a variety of benefits. Here are just some of them:

• Are you more into working from office or home? We are open to both, it’s up to you how you will tailor your day.  And as home furnishing experts we will provide you our office furniture if you choose to work mostly from home.
• We believe that each of us contributes to reaching (and exceeding) our goals. That's the idea behind our unique, performance-driven bonus program: One IKEA Bonus. It rewards us for improving our business – together!
• Is there an additional room you would like to refurbish? As an IKEA co-worker, you have discounts on all our products
• Your health and well-being are our top priorities, so we provide you private medical subscription and life insurance
• We understand that everyone needs help with life challenges and daily demands from time to time. We offer you 24/7 support from external experts if needed with work, personal and emotional issues, or you need legal or financial advice
• There are many opportunities to grow so we will arrange you with a wide offer of online training using our learning platform and if you want to change your career or position, you don't need to change company to change a job – we have many opportunities and examples of our co-workers changing position, location or even country
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Why we will love you:

You have:

• Educational Technical background
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in managing and delivering complex change processes/products
• Previous experience of launching and driving growth of digital projects/ products across multiple countries and leading in change across multi-functional teams
• Deep understanding of how to set up and manage a successful release and rollout of digital products together with relevant stakeholders
• Excellent knowledge of change management techniques and digital transformation practices
• Talent for understanding the business in retail and eCommerce to be able to drive reinvention of the business, Web- and App development, eCommerce, APIs and digital media 
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build trustful relationships with stakeholders of different seniority levels across the organization and across countries
• Ability to lead in times of change and uncertainty, with the business goals, customers, and co-workers in focus
• Demonstrates strong leadership skills, especially independent leadership, by using sound judgements to make timely and effective decisions
• Actively acquires new knowledge and skills and champions new methods and processes to improve performance
• Passionate about the possibilities of digital to delight and inspire countries to rapidly adopt new digital products
• Appreciate the mix of strategic thinking and turning developments into deployments
• Strong communication skills in English both spoken and written.

What you’ll be doing day to day

About the job

Own Country Digital roadmap plan. Responsible for implementing an industrialized product deployment approach to launch new/changed products and services as they are released by the Central Group Digital product teams.

Drive and ensure exponential rollout of products across all SEE countries. Continuously provide feedback and contribute to refinement of the deployment approach.

About the assignment:

• Ensure that product rollouts run according to plan, based on detailed digital roadmap plans received from roadmap teams
• Facilitate flow of roadmap feedback from countries to roadmap teams
• Lead implementation of all digital launches in the countries
• Ensure proper multifunctional staffing for successful launches in the countries
• Evaluate and report all launches as per defined metrics. Provide feedback & recommendations based on evaluation to improve digital toolbox components to Central Group Digital deployment team
• Ensure rapid adoption of new products across countries through an exponential rollout plan with contribution from assembled deployment support teams
• Secure that country teams organize for deployment in close collaboration with global deployment support teams, in terms of people and tools
• Ensure timely implementation of change management activities with Digital Project Leader & Digital. Successfully drive the adoption of products, including communications, training, and stakeholder management
• For some countries also manages the country specific product portfolio in the country
• Work across initiatives within Ingka Group, steering a successful digital product deployment that drives IKEA business results

Apply now!

We offer a permanent and full time (40 hours) contract, based in Belgrade, SERBIA with frequent travelling throughout South East Europe.
Looking forward to your application!