Real Estate Development Manager -Facilities

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 your uniqueness.

Join our team and start a better life for yourself.

• Developing an efficient team through a servant leadership based on Leadership by All, service orientation, empowerment & performance. Ensuring an aligned understanding in the team with the overall vision, direction, delivery process and responsibilities for assigned initiatives. Identify and set team and individual, high-quality outcome-based goals based on valid business plans, to ensure execution of the Real Estate scope in the respective functional area of Real Estate Development.
  
  Lead succession planning and competence development for the team.
• Develop the action planning within the functional area to meet the country business plans and overall Real Estate action plan in a country with a large portfolio and/or extensive delivery of future projects coupled to OMD & RELTP plans. Contributes to overall business planning and development and steering of cross business initiatives, with responsibility to organize the Real Estate contribution. Plans, steers and implements initiatives within the functional area to drive business performance, based on group initiatives, best practices and specific needs within the country.
  
  Ensure clear communication and alignment with stakeholders including ordering from Design & Delivery.
• Develop functional expertise and performance in the Country, in alignment with Group Business Development. Ensure that the business is performed in accordance with external regulations and internal policies, guidelines, ways of working and tools to achieve high business performance and compliance. Ensure that the internal stakeholder management connected to the area of responsibility, to achieve success by aligning and committing one agenda across the business.
  
  Also ensure communication planning and performance.
• Ensure that agreed initiatives are planned. budgeted, approved and resource allocated within and across functions to achieve business objectives with high performance on cost, quality, time and compliance. Take Responsibility for the external network of commercial and non-commercial partners with the functional area, including that sourcing activities are performed to achieve optimal results in a compliant and that suppliers are managed to optimize performance.
  
  Also, ensure that all areas related to the public sector is performed with compliance and in an excellent manner. Represent Ingka Real Estate externally within the functional area, to drive trust in the IKEA brand. Collaborate closely with Group Real Estate Business Development and other Country Property Development Managers by contributing to identifying, developing, and implementing relevant solutions and standard for country.
  
  Secure alignment with Group Real Estate Design & Delivery on planning, execution, and allocation of resources for larger, more complex projects.
• Create an environment where the IKEA culture and values are a strong and living reality that embraces the diversity of co-workers, contractors and customers. Share entrepreneurial ideas and express opportunities for improvement on current ways of working, adopt and implement best practices while at the same time challenging the organization to improve by identifying and developing new business opportunities and sustainability potentials.

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