Job ID: 253509
Date posted: 26/08/2024
Who you are

As People&Culture Manager of the IKEA headquarter in Austria you will be one of the faces representing People & Culture in IKEA Austria. You need leadership skills and will be managing succession planning, talent and competence development in the headquarter with about 280 co-workers and, connected to that, in the Remote Customer Meeting Point (RCMP) with 207 co-workers.

What will you get? We offer a career where you are heard and can move things and a job where you will experience how seriously we take togetherness and how rewarding and fun it will be. At IKEA we welcome diversity and work with flat hierarchies. We live a modern, smart, and purpose led culture.

• You have an university degree and 4 years of related experience, or minimum 8 years of related work experience with a minimum of 3 years of managerial experience included.
• You have a proven record of business and financial acumen.
• You know how to build, maintain and thrive stakeholder relationships.
• You know how to deliver and optimize processes – set direction, create, and manage long-term plans and goals, and follow up on KPIs.
• You know how to plan, attract, grow, deploy, reward and support co-workers &

leaders and their careers.

• You know how to identify, assess, select and hire suitable candidates for

a job.

• You are a sparring partner for managers and coworkers and you know how to adress and resolve HR related topics.
• You are native German and fluent English

Your responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and implement a comprehensive range of people and culture plans and budgets based on global guidelines that achieve operational goals and objectives.
• Support the continuous development of local leadership capabilities and support Managers about talent issues, including P&C onboarding requests, coaching on performance management, and other issues (e.g., multi-generational workforce).
• Participates and represents P&C in strategic business plan development and ongoing business decisions.
• Responsible for ensuring that the talent and succession goals and performance management for the assigned business areas are being achieved, providing advice and expertise to line managers to secure a quality and timely process.
• Identify, evaluate and monitor actual and potential labour issues evolving internally or externally that could create significant risks for IKEA.
• Identify and provide requirements to help with the development of P&C initiatives, to participate in the implementation of local P&C initiatives, and to support data entry and documentation handling at a local level to ensure compliance
• Implement a common way of managing co-worker relations issues on country level, delivering consistency and fairness in all our processes and actively performing an analysis of root causes in coordination with the Unit P&C Business Partner Managers
• Ensure budget approval for any personal data and mass data changes within the country and provide approval for contract extensions within the country and review benefits metrics and targets.
• Approve any changes to off-cycle compensation and pay equality scenarios and determine if the job and salary level will impact co-workers or other country level stakeholders, and creates an action plan to address the impacts.
• Manage involuntary and voluntary exits for co-workers based on guidelines and any legal requirements and participate in performance reviews and calibration sessions and PIP programs as needed
• Prepare report on industry trends and other data for key positions conversation with business and also for Talent for Growth conversations.

About this work area

IKEA is all about people, and our team make sure to bring the best people on board to keep our strong spirit of togetherness. We believe that different experiences and backgrounds collectively make us wiser and stronger, and we ensure that our co-workers bloom into their best selves as they contribute to our business.

Apply now!

We welcome all applications and especially applications from people with disabilities as well as from different ethnic backgrounds. Please apply online and don’t forget to attach your motivation letter (we think a good and interesting motivation letter often says much more about you than many degrees).

If you have job specific questions, please contact Tim Siegmund at tim.siegmund@ingka.ikea.com.

We would like to inform you that our selection process starts even before the job advertisement is closed. Once we have found a suitable candidate, we will end the selection process and cannot consider any further applications.

For this position we offer you a monthly gross salary starting from € 4110,- (on fulltime base incl. ALL In). We are willing to pay significantly more depending on experience and qualification.