Project Manager Construction

Project Manager Opportunity at IKEA

Job Description

IKEA continues to look into the future and is currently seeking a Project Manager Construction for our Food department in Amsterdam. This is a temporary role for about 9-12 months. You will help create and lead the development of the IKEA of tomorrow. This is the opportunity to join us at the very start of the journey and to be core to the future success of IKEA!

A day in your life with us

To work at IKEA, you need to be yourself. You must also enjoy going the extra mile, be self-driven and work well together with others. As a person, you are able to direct efforts to achieve long-term business objectives; prioritize, delegate and make efficient decisions with speed and simplicity. In addition, we hope that you have:

• Proven project management and cost management skills
• Good leadership capabilities and strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build trustful relationships.
• Good knowledge and understanding of the IKEA Retail Expansion process (have experience managing a construction or rebuild project)
• Knowledge of retail/expansion business operations
• History of working and steering through financial tools (e.g., Investment Request (IR) documentation)
• Experience from managing change in a complex business environment, in a result-oriented way with the drive to make things happen.
• Experience in leading and influencing teams and managers

Our team within IKEA

Thanks to us, customers, co-workers and people at home can have a better everyday life through food that’s good for both people and planet. Together we serve more than 660 million customers yearly at the IKEA restaurants worldwide, underlining our Scandinavian heritage by offering a modern taste of Sweden. We also offer a variety of foods in our bistros and in the “Swedish Food market”. We are a diverse group of people who all live by the motto: Laughter is brightest in the place where the food is!

Your main working area will be the Food department in our store in Amsterdam. With the customer at the heart of everything we do, team Expansion takes responsibility for developing and implementing the strategic expansion plan for IKEA Netherlands. Expansion acts upon business needs based on insights and optimizes accessibility to enable maximum penetration of IKEA Netherlands. Expansion is responsible for implementing our retailing concepts and securing that we fully utilize our assets in the new world of IKEA – all at lowest cost, with economy of scale and sustained profitability.

In this role you will work on:

• A project of the construction rebuild of the customer restaurant, kitchen and refrigeration system
• Delivering the projects’ milestones within agreed timeframe, budget, and quality while following the IKEA Retail Establishment process
• The preparation of project in the pre-project phase, budget estimation, cost management and implementation of large scale & multi-layered retail projects or Store in Shape as New projects (e.g., commercial rebuilds) according to the project directive.
• Manage, lead, develop and motivate local project team
• Identify, mitigate and manage risks
• You are able to prioritize and delegate and keep a good overview of the total process.
• Making decisions while operating good project governance processes and working across multiple organizations & functions, both internal and external, and leading stakeholders on a country level
• Communicating progress to relevant stakeholders, including Country management team & Board

Goed voor onze aarde én voor jou

What we do today, we will do a little better tomorrow. Because together we care for people and the environment. And IKEA also takes good care of you in the meantime. This is a full-time, temporary position for about 9 or 12 months in IPE. This role is based in Ikea Store Amsterdam located in Amsterdam and you are flexible in traveling within NL.