"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 Sydney (Tempe)
- Employment type Full Time Temporary
- Department Project Management
- Deadline 2026-11-19
Candidate profile (text) - Default language As a Project Leader at IKEA Australia & New Zealand, you will drive complex projects focusing on physical expansion, playing a key role in shaping our strategic growth priorities. This 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. Key responsibilities (title) Our team within IKEA Key responsibilities (text) 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. Team vision ( title) About this work area Team vision (text) As a Project Leader at IKEA Australia & New Zealand, you will lead projects from initiation to completion, with a focus on expansion projects that involve retail fit out and construction elements. Your role involves ensuring project scope and alignment, managing timelines, mitigating risks, facilitating communication, addressing organisation impact, providing accurate reporting, and effectively implementing change management standards set in your team. Your focus will be on achieving the lowest possible cost while maintaining the highest quality, managing external relationships, and driving successful outcomes. Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- You will lead diverse project teams across commercial, digital, real estate, construction and business navigation to name a few, being comfortable to lead people with specialised subject matter expertise.
- Leading projects from initiation to completion, ensuring meticulous adherence to project scope, legal requirements, timelines, sequencing, quality standards, cost-efficiency, risk mitigation, comprehensive reporting, and thorough to project evaluation. You will also capture and share learnings across the country, matrix, and group functions.
- Demonstrate a good adherence to both global and local governance standards set in this space, following pre-defined stage gates, documentation and reporting needs to deliver your projects.
- Leading resources connected to the project, ensuring all dimensions of the project contribute to a successful delivery into the business.
- Securing project fundamentals by taking responsibility for project methodology, tools, steering, assignments, and onboarding of necessary project resources. You will also be responsible for the project budget, plan, time schedule, and preparing materials for governance forums.
- Ensuring project alignment with global and country strategies and business plans. You will manage interdependencies within projects, between projects, and with the line organisation. Let's connect Who you are Let´s connect You possess strong knowledge of project management, change management, and how to lead effectively in ambiguous situations, coupled with a broad business understanding. Your expertise extends to the IKEA value chain and retail operations, alongside a deep understanding of consumer, customer, and co-worker needs throughout the shopping experience. You are skilled in optimising and continuously developing the customer omnichannel experience to drive growth and seamless interactions, and you grasp the impact of financial cost & growth drivers on profitability from an omnichannel perspective.
You can influence and inspire leaders and co-workers, lead indirectly through people, and build strong relationships and successful collaborations across the IKEA value chain to consistently deliver results. To be considered for this role you will have:
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in project management, ideally focused on physical expansion.
- Experience working in the retail sector will be highly regarded.
- Experience within a global organisation, leading in a complex business environment with physical and digital operations and development.
- Proven experience in building large-scale networks and collaborations.
Additional Information
Location: The role is preferred to be Sydney based, working from our Tempe Service Office, however, remote work from any IKEA AU unit will be considered. Local section (title) We need people like you! Local section (text) At IKEA, work is so much more than a job. Come join us!
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!
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