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Country Leadership, Learning & Development Leader I

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  • Bengaluru, India
  • People & HR

Job Description

  • Job ID: 358188

  • Date posted: 29/07/2026

    • Who you are

    Leadership is everyone’s responsibility at IKEA. Leadership behaviours differ depending on your position and your level of leadership
    You are a collaborative, results-driven professional who takes ownership of business outcomes while contributing to a strong team environment. You thrive in complex, fast-paced settings, confidently managing multiple priorities, stakeholders, and interdependencies. With a balance of strategic thinking and practical execution, you handle operational, tactical, and long-term challenges effectively.
    You are committed to developing people, providing clarity, and building strong inclusive relationships that support shared goals. You continuously improve ways of working, applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills to drive innovation and efficiency. Adaptable and proactive, you embrace change, take initiative, and ensure knowledge is shared to enable collective success.

    Your responsibilities

    To lead, design and execute a leadership development strategy and plan that strengthens our existing leaders further, and develops our future leaders through our co-workers who have the potential to perform and grow, to achieve operational goals and objectives, in line with IKEA vision and values. Drive IKEA Culture and Values in collaboration with stakeholders in the units.

    • Guide and execute work, collaborating with stakeholders to identify leadership, learning and development needs and implement appropriate solutions.
    • Establish a high standard of excellence within the function including identifying, communicating, localising and implementing leadership and learning for all co workers in the country organisation.
    • Guide and execute work to deliver the assigned markets training calendar.
    • Guide and execute work to implement digital tools and systems that can support an efficient and accurate leadership learning and development program.
    • Implements learning & development KPIs and ROI methodology.
    • Utilise a learning and development management system (MyLearning) to deliver and report Leadership and learning content & programs.
    • Review, assess, and measure the success and performance of learning programs
    • Partners with each market’s P&C Learning Specialist in the country and secures that learning operational activities are performed.
    • Responsible for building strong facilitator pools in the country.
    • Demonstrate strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
    • Collaborate with stakeholders, identifying and developing talent, using relevant strategies, processes and tools.
    • Work proactively toward realizing the succession, performance & development goals of the People & Culture strategy on a country level and strengthening the succession pipeline.
    • Cooperate closely with stakeholders in the country organisation to ensure proper identification and development of talents using appropriate succession strategies, processes and tools.
    • Drive succession, performance management, and workforce planning for the country, using data insights to meet current and future needs.

    Together as a team

    People are at the heart of our business. We create a better everyday life together by living our shared values and safeguarding our unique culture. To create an inspiring IKEA experience in a fast expanding market, we want to make sure our Co-workers have the opportunity to develop their leadership to lead business and people in the current and future units, so our co-workers are empowered to meet our customers in the best possible way.

    Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don't apply for jobs unless they're 100% "qualified". If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think. We look forward to receiving your application.

    From: "Why Women Don't Apply for Jobs Unless They're 100% Qualified" by Tara Sophia Mohr, August 2014"








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