WHO YOU ARE

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 professional who takes ownership of business outcomes while contributing to a strong team setting. 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.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES 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.

TOGETHER AS A TEAM

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.

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:

At IKEA we value diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are committed to providing coworkers with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We encourage individualism and invite you to come join our team and be yourself with us!

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristic protected by law. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need.

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