Are you ready to put in the next gear of moving IKEA and making us better together? 

We are looking for Strategic Topic Leader in Sustainability for total Inter IKEA who will help define, develop, and maintain commitments and goals related to the topic of water with the highest impact on our business. As a strategic topic leader, you will be responsible for identifying strategic and tactical movements to reach sustainability goals. You will also play a crucial role in securing IKEA's capabilities and compliance with global agreements, commitments, standards, and new legislations. Lead and continuously develop the strategic topic, including standpoints and narratives, taking both risks and opportunities into consideration.

You will further secure integration of the strategic topic into relevant business development through clear and effective ambitions, commitments, and goals for the full IKEA business by working together with other sustainability expertise and by working together with and through all Inter IKEA organisations enabling deployment for the startegic topic.

To be successful in this role we believe that you are able to:

• Develop and maintain strategic commitments and goals for Sustainability Strategic topic with highest impact, for risks and opportunities alike, for the IKEA business.
• Identify strategic and tactical movements to reach set goals as input to each core IKEA strategy and each Inter IKEA organisation, Range, Supply and Retail Concept, to act on.
• Make the complicated and complex topic area understandable for respective business when making their business decisions and work together with the many needed stakeholders within and outside of Inter IKEA to ensure effective, up-to-date and relevant input and guidance.
• Develop and maintain position statements and methodology, goals and KPIs to measure performance of the Strategic topic.
• Engage with external partners to drive and influence strategic topic, contribute to sustainability reports, and ensure clear and up-to-date narratives for Sustainability Strategic topic.

This is a permanent position based in Älmhult.

Application and practicalities 

Please note, we have a preferred candidate for this position.

Send in your application via the link to SmartRecruiter at latest by the 23rd of September.