Concept & Development Manager - Ingka Centres

"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. Join the team and start a better life for yourself."

• Location

  Malmö

• Employment type

  Permanent

• Department

  Business Development

Candidate profile (title) Your responsibilities

Candidate profile (text) - Default language 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

Key responsibilities (title) Who you are

Key responsibilities (text) 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.

Team vision ( title) Together as a team

Team vision (text) 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

Let's connect Questions and support? Let's connect!

Let´s connect Perhaps there is something you´re wondering about? For job-specific questions please contact hiring manager Sebastian Hylving, [email protected]

Do you have questions about the recruitment process? Please contact recruiter Shivani Gupta, [email protected]

We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, but no later than 26 August 26

Warmly welcome with your application!

Why you will love us

From the deep forests in Sweden, we have spread our culture and values around the world. At the heart of our offer are our beautiful home-furnishing products and solutions, made with care for our planet, reaching millions of customers.

At the heart of our business, are our wonderful co-workers representing diversity in all dimensions and passionate for life at home. We all contribute with our uniqueness and we want to grow and develop together.

Our vision, “to create a better everyday life for the many people” inspires and guides us in everything we do. This is IKEA.

What we all have in common

• Living our values
• Being your unique self, while respecting and including others
• A passion for home furnishing
• Performing & delivering while learning & developing
• Having fun!