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  • Tempe, New South Wales, Australia
  • Project Management

Job Description

  • Job ID: 376306

  • Date posted: 05/11/2026



    • 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.

    Our team within IKEA

    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.

    About this work area

    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.



    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.

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