Country Leadership, Learning & Development Leader I

"You care about making a positive impact in the world. You understand greatness requires thinking differently. An inclusive and accepting work environment is important to you.

A job at IKEA is so much more than home furnishings. Together, we work to make a better everyday life for the many. It's the perfect fit if you want to contribute, grow, and share. Join the team and start a better life for yourself."

Location

Bengaluru

Employment type

Full Time Permanent

Department

People & HR

Deadline

2026-08-12

Mobility support

Domestic

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Candidate profile (title) Who you are

Candidate profile (text) - Default language Leadership is everyone's responsibility at IKEA. Leadership behaviours differ depending on your position and your level of leadership
You are a collaborative, results-driven qualified who takes ownership of business outcomes while contributing to a strong team environment. You thrive in complex, fast-paced settings, confidently managing multiple priorities, stakeholders, and interdependencies. With a balance of strategic thinking and practical execution, you handle operational, tactical, and long-term challenges effectively.
You are committed to developing people, providing clarity, and building strong inclusive relationships that support shared goals. You continuously improve ways of working, applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills to drive innovation and efficiency. Adaptable and proactive, you embrace change, take initiative, and ensure knowledge is shared to enable collective success.

Key responsibilities (title) Your responsibilities

Key responsibilities (text) To lead, design and execute a leadership development strategy and plan that strengthens our existing leaders further, and develops our future leaders through our co-workers who have the potential to perform and grow, to achieve operational goals and objectives, in line with IKEA vision and values.



Drive IKEA Culture and Values in collaboration with stakeholders in the units.

- Guide and execute work, collaborating with stakeholders to identify leadership, learning and development needs and implement appropriate solutions.
- Establish a high standard of excellence within the function including identifying, communicating, localising and implementing leadership and learning for all co workers in the country organisation.
- Guide and execute work to deliver the assigned markets training calendar.
- Guide and execute work to implement digital tools and systems that can support an efficient and accurate leadership learning and development program.
- Implements learning & development KPIs and ROI methodology.
- Utilise a learning and development management system (MyLearning) to deliver and report Leadership and learning content & programs.
- Review, assess, and measure the success and performance of learning programs
- Partners with each market's P&C; Learning Specialist in the country and secures that learning operational activities are performed.
- Responsible for building strong facilitator pools in the country.
- Demonstrate strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, identifying and developing talent, using relevant strategies, processes and tools.
- Work proactively toward realizing the succession, performance & development goals of the People & Culture strategy on a country level and strengthening the succession pipeline.




- Cooperate closely with stakeholders in the country organisation to ensure proper identification and development of talents using appropriate succession strategies, processes and tools.
- Drive succession, performance management, and workforce planning for the country, using data insights to meet current and future needs.

Team vision ( title) Together as a team

Team vision (text) People are at the heart of our business. We create a better everyday life together by living our shared values and safeguarding our unique culture. To create an inspiring IKEA experience in a fast expanding market, we want to make sure our Co-workers have the opportunity to develop their leadership to lead business and people in the current and future units, so our co-workers are empowered to meet our customers in the best possible way.

Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don't apply for jobs unless they're 100% "qualified". If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think. We look forward to receiving your application.

From: "Why Women Don't Apply for Jobs Unless They're 100% Qualified" by Tara Sophia Mohr, August 2014"

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!

📌 Country Leadership, Learning & Development Leader I (Bengaluru)
🏢 Ikea
📍 Bengaluru