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Concept & Development Manager - Ingka Centres

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  • Малме, Švedska
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  • Identifikacioni broj posla: 346803

  • Datum postavljanja: 12/08/2026

    • Your responsibilities

    We are looking for a senior real estate professional with an entrepreneurial mindset to develop and elevate Ingka Centres Meeting Place portfolio.

    In this role, you recruit, build, manage, and lead a professional team, ensuring strong collaboration across Ingka Centres and the wider Ingka landscape to strengthen and expand Ingka Centres Meeting Place portfolio. You support the IKEA space optimization agenda, provide strategic leadership for real estate transactions and the physical evolution of Ingka Centres Meeting Places, ensuring they are future proof, high performing, and aligned with the overall business vision.

    As a member of the management team, you guide multidisciplinary functions to deliver cohesive concepts, robust development processes, and high-quality execution across all stages of planning, design, expansion, and transformation.

    Your main responsibilities will include:
    • Lead the overall direction for the physical Meeting Place format and long-term development of Meeting Places, ensuring solutions are innovative, commercially strong, and aligned with strategic priorities.
    • Ensure strong collaboration within Ingka Centres and the wider IKEA landscape to support IKEA expansion and space optimisation agenda.
    • Provide senior leadership to multidisciplinary teams across design, PMO, expansion, development, transformation, transactions, and concept & solutions, fostering clarity, collaboration, and unified delivery.
    • Drive the end-to-end development process, from early concept creation through detailed planning and execution, securing consistency, feasibility, and excellence across all initiatives.
    • Act as a strategic partner within the management team, contributing to overall business direction and translating company ambitions into actionable development strategies.
    • Lead co-creation of Ingka Centres expansion plan anchored with IKEA and contribut to Ingka Centres portfolio plan.
    • Ensure strong governance, standards, and ways of working are in place to support efficient decision-making, high-quality outputs, and repeatable, scalable development solutions across markets.

    This role will be reporting to: Sebastian Hylving Ingka Centres Manager

    Who you are

    You are an experienced and inspiring real estate professional and a strong leader with a background in real estate concept, design, project management, development, and transformation within complex organisational environments. You combine strategic thinking with operational excellence and are passionate about developing people, concepts, and meeting places that create long term value.
    You have:
    • A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience within real estate concept, design, development, project management, transformation, transactions and related fields is a must.
    • At least 6 years of managerial experience, with a proven ability to lead and develop leaders and multidisciplinary teams.
    • A university degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.
    • Strong ability to translate business strategy into physical concepts and executable development roadmaps.
    • Experience working at management team level and navigating complex stakeholder landscapes across organisations.
    • A structured, forward looking mindset with a strong focus on collaboration, profitability, quality, and continuous improvement.

    Together as a team

    Together with IKEA Retail and Ingka Investments, Ingka Centres is part of Ingka Group.

    As a long-term partner of IKEA, we share our vision, our culture and our values, while what makes our businesses different is the way we fulfil our vision. If the idea of IKEA is to create a better life at home, we work hard to create a better everyday life outside of the home by developing virtual and physical meeting places where people can meet shop and connect with their communities.

    We have big plans for the future that involve expanding to new locations, opening smaller-scale concepts closer to the city centres, digitalization, and most of all, living up to shared sustainability goals. We’re constantly looking for enthusiastic, purpose-oriented and creative people who’d like to join us on our journey to create meeting places around the world.

    Sounds exciting? There’s a lot more to know about us! Take a look at our website, read our stories and try to imagine how you can be part of our team allowing us reach our goals!

    www.ingkacentres.com

    Questions and support? Let's connect!

    Perhaps there is something you´re wondering about? For job-specific questions please contact hiring manager Sebastian Hylving, sebastian.hylving@ingka.com

    Do you have questions about the recruitment process? Please contact recruiter Shivani Gupta, Shivani.gupta@Ingka.ikea.com
    We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, but no later than 26 August 26

    Warmly welcome with your application!




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