Job ID: R0009266
Date posted: 19/09/2024
Range Area (RA) Bedroom Furniture is a stable and successful business and has been for many years. To secure future successes, we are building a renewed, improved and wider bedroom storage and hallway offer.
Do you have a passion for home furnishings and creating a great offer? Are you inspired by people’s real life at home? Are you motivated by reaching more of the many people through a desirable and affordable range offer? Are you interested in leading the product development process, change and improvements, keeping the consumer and the business in focus and delivering products with quality and speed?
Right now we are looking for a Project Controller for RA Bedroom Furniture.
In RA Bedroom Furniture we are a group of down-to-earth, straightforward people with a passion for home furnishing. We come from all over the world, but we share an inspiring vision: “to create a better everyday life for the many people”.
We develop safe, affordable quality products for a beautiful, relaxing and more organised life at home. Everything we do is based on a spirit of togetherness and enthusiasm, and we are now looking for someone who shares our positive attitude and values. As a Project Controller, you play a key role in our quest to improve everyday activities and needs connected to organising shoes & clothes for the bedroom and hallway.
Do you want to join our fantastic team?
As Project Controller you lead project management and product development processes to ensure that the team delivers to the project ambition and time plan throughout the project. You lead project planning, tracking and follow‐up to secure project delivery on time to the markets. Your proactive leadership is crucial to the success of the team’s deliveries by finding the most agile approach to delivering quality results on time. In this role you will be reporting to the Range Design Manager or Range Team Manager and belong to the Range function.
Your main responsibilities as Project Controller are:

• Responsible for project management including project planning, tracking and follow up, according to project goal, time plan and KPI’s.
• Proactively lead the product development process, secure process compliance and continuous process improvement.
• Capture and document project lessons learned and utilize these learnings in new projects.
• Administration of the range in the internal product information system and of the projects in the project management tool. You will lead project team meetings and co-lead team development.

We are looking for a goal-oriented team player with the communicative ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders and engage people by creating a passion for objectives, plans and processes. You have a passion for details and excellence in operations. You can analyze, draw conclusions and understand how decisions and processes impact the totality.
To be successful in this role we expect you to have:

• Experience from leading or coordinating projects
• Project management and leadership skills
• An academic degree within Business Administration, Project Management, Economics, or equivalent work experience
• Knowledge from Microsoft Office and project management tools
• Be fluent in written and verbal English

Additional information
Do you want to be a part of creating a better everyday life for the many people?
In Älmhult, Sweden you can. Älmhult is home to IKEA of Sweden. Here the IKEA range is developed and made available to stores and customers all over the world. We are here to offer a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. That is our promise, and we do this every day with great passion and energy.
Does this sound like your next challenge? We are curious to get to know you so warm welcome with your application – Resume including answering to the following questions – in English, no later than October 4th 2024.
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If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact the Emma Johansson, Team Manager Range at emma.johansson13 @inter.ikea.com.
If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Jonas Levin at jonas.levin@inter.ikea.com
Please note that we will review applications as they come through so do not delay, send in your application today! Please register you application in our recruitment system. Due to GDPR we will not be able to handle applications sent by mail.