Project Manager

As a Project Manager at IKEA Australia & New Zealand focusing on Expansion you will be working in the Project Management Office. You will be at the forefront of driving a diverse range of complex projects that shape our future and meet our goals to reach more of the many customers. This pivotal role demands exceptional leadership and strategic acumen to navigate complex projects, ensuring high standards of execution from initiation to completion, delivering significant impact across our organisation.

Our team within IKEA

IKEA Retail, as the core business of Ingka, is dedicated to creating a better everyday life for many by ensuring long-term profitable growth, making IKEA more affordable, accessible, and sustainable. This commitment involves leading retail operations, serving happy customers, and developing IKEA as a purpose-led brand, while continuously expanding our presence to meet customers wherever and however they choose. We proactively set the business development agenda for IKEA Australian and New Zealand through the rapid deployment new technology and accelerated growth and expansion, enabling us to reach more of the many people with our home furnishing solutions.

About this work area

As a Project Manager, you will have the opportunity to lead a diverse range of projects across our Country Portfolio, with a focus on physical expansion and projects that optimise our current meeting points (stores). This role involves leading diverse project teams across commercial, digital, real estate, construction and business navigation to name a few. Your role is to ensure project scope and alignment, manage timelines, mitigate risks, facilitate effective team and stakeholder communication, providing accurate project reporting, and effectively implementing change management where needed. A core focus will always be on achieving the lowest possible cost while maintaining the highest quality, effectively managing external relationships, and driving successful outcomes. Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
• Scoping and managing multiple high-complexity projects end-to-end, ensuring adherence to project scope, legal requirements, timelines, sequencing, quality standards, cost-efficiency, risk mitigation, communication, and comprehensive reporting. This includes thorough project evaluation and the capture and sharing of key learnings across country, matrix, and group functions.
• Leading change management within projects across the organisation, securing clear communication, addressing people consequences, and fostering alignment between projects and all internal partners, as well as external stakeholders including authorities and municipalities, to ensure timely and successful project delivery.
• Leading the project teams and other connected resources, actively contributing to building a competent and high-performing team by attracting, developing, and retaining talent. You will secure all dimensions of the project to ensure successful delivery into the business.
• Ensuring robust project fundamentals, taking accountability for project methodology, tools, steering, assignments, and the onboarding of necessary project resources. You will also be accountable for the project budget, plan, time schedule, and establishing effective project governance.
• Securing project alignment with global and country strategies and business plans, ensuring funding is in place.
• Manage interdependencies within projects, between projects, and with the line organisation.
• Where relevant, procure external service providers/vendors, ensuring effective relationship management and performance.



You are an accomplished professional with excellent knowledge of project management principles and a strong understanding of both retail operations and the requirements of working with physical rebuilds and projects that involve fit out and construction elements. You have strong commercial acumen financial literacy, putting you in good stead to coordinate the development of business cases on your projects where needed. You have a strong grasp of financial cost & growth drivers, as well as their impact on profitability. Your capabilities shine in your strong ability to navigate and lead within complex, dynamic, and evolving business environments, effectively driving positive change to achieve business outcomes. You excel at influencing and inspiring leaders and co-workers, leading the business through people, and building strong relationships and collaborations across the IKEA value chain to consistently deliver results.

To be considered for this role you will have:
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in project management, with a proven track working on retail projects.
• Experience working in the retail sector will be highly regarded.
• Proven experience from senior leadership role(s).
• Experience within a global organisation, leading in complex business environments with both physical and digital operations and development.

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