People and Culture Business Partner

Who you are

As a person you are passionate about people, business, IKEA’s purpose and continuously driving better performance. You are energized by increasing customer value, driving business growth and contributing to overall success and results through people as well as motivated by leading and developing people. For this role we believe you have Human Resources background with 1 year experience as a Generalist and proven record of developing people and organizations. Experience from a global matrix organization and/or participating on global projects.

Knowledge of how to implement long-term plans, according to set budgets and goals.

Knowledge of how to create co-worker engagement and develop talents.

Knowledge about the rights and obligations of workers and employers, and how to mediate the relationship between workers employing entities, trade unions and the government.

Knowledge of identifying, assessing, encouraging and ensuring co-workers´ performance against organizational and individual goals

Knowledge of introducing a co-worker to IKEA, the team and work activities in an effective and performance-enhancing way

Knowledge of how to use, govern and manage partnership models in a responsible way to build trustful partnership relationships.

Reflecting what IKEA stands for and the IKEA values.

Leading business through people.

Having the opportunity to act local within a global framework.

Passionate to create a people oriented working environment.

Accomplishes goals, completes tasks, and achieves results.

Develops virtual and other collaborative relationships to facilitate current and future objectives.

Takes action without needing direction from others - ability to work independently, take own initiatives and responsibility but also a team-player.

Expresses ideas and opinions effectively in verbal and written communication

Influences stakeholders in an inspiring and personal way

Motivates and interacts naturally with both managers and non-managers.

Passion to create a people oriented working environment.

**Your responsibilities**

Responsible for ensuring daily people processes and routines are secured, and efficiently delivered to a high standard

Responsible for implementing people approaches and all aspects of the people agenda and ensuring these are embedded and understood by leaders

Coach and advise leaders so that they are confident & competent in managing their day-to-day people processes in line with the labor relations principles, local policies, procedures and laws and to uphold IKEA employment standards

Responsible for ensuring that the talent and succession goals for the assigned business areas are being consciously achieved, providing advice and expertise to line managers to secure a quality and timely process

Ensure that line managers develop business competence & leadership competence for today & tomorrow by using the relevant competence building tools and methods to secure the wonderful customer experience in a multi-channel environment

Proactively meet with, and provide functional expertise to key stakeholders in order to build meaningful relationships and optimize business opportunities

**Together as a team**

At the heart of our business are people. We create a better everyday life together by living our shared values and safeguarding our unique culture. To create an inspiring IKEA experience, we need to make sure our co-workers have the preconditions to meet our customers in the best possible way. The purpose of the People and Culture function is to secure the competence and organization to reach our business ambitions. To succeed, we are focusing on three movements:
People choose IKEA for what we stand for.

Engaged IKEA people with customers at heart.

A modern, lean and agile IKEA fit for growth.