Business Development Director

6 days ago


Malmo, Skåne, Sweden INGKA Services AB Full time
About Us
We are a global retail organization, committed to making IKEA more accessible and affordable for many people. As a passionate professional, you will contribute to our success by supporting countries to improve their performance. Your enthusiasm lies in collaborating with others and working in a dynamic environment.

Our ideal candidate will have advanced training in Business, Finance, Economics or equivalent, along with a minimum of 5 years of experience in business navigation or finance-related fields, and 2-5 years of cross-functional experience from other organizations. We require expertise in business case creation, financial reporting, analyzing complex data, and building up reporting and meeting structures to enhance performance in multicultural environments.

The successful candidate will possess:
  • Extensive knowledge of business case creation and calculations, particularly related to the financial dimension.
  • Experience in creating and reviewing investment requests to support informed decision-making bodies, while considering both benefits and risks.
  • Strong proficiency in working with data applications, such as Power BI, Microsoft Office, and understanding of financial reporting within Ingka.
  • A business understanding of our omnichannel reality and its implications on investment request creation and follow-up.
  • Familiarity with the Ingka Expansion process and investments into Real Estate assets is desirable.
Your Responsibilities
In this role, you will develop investment, cost management, and follow-up processes and required tools. You will provide guidance to countries and group stakeholders. Provide expertise to countries on business cases/investment requests for all retail expansion projects and organize follow-ups on investments to secure successful and profitable expansion of IKEA retail.

You will:
  • Lead and develop Investment Management, Cost Management, and Follow-up processes in the Ingka Expansion Process landscape. Constantly evaluate and look for opportunities to improve and simplify the processes while safeguarding quality of outcome.
  • Develop, coordinate, and administer the investment process of expansion projects and activities, including governance and reviews, tools and templates, working methods and communication, analysis, and follow-up.
  • Develop, coordinate and follow up consolidated retail expansion business cases in new and existing markets. Develop the ways of working with investment requests and follow-ups to reflect our changing environment, to simplify and secure adequate information and facts that are required for informed decision-making and high-performing investments.
  • Be responsible to organize and facilitate follow-up capabilities and solutions for Retail Area New Business & Expansion and to make them available for follow-up owners within the Retail Area and beyond.
  • Contribute to Strategic Expansion plans and portfolio creation and content. Ensure connectivity between follow-up, investment approvals and portfolio management to enable end-to-end KPIs to measure performance.


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