Job Description
Hej Recruiter,
Do you want to go to work and help create a better life at home?
With us, you can feel at home in your work while sharing that feeling with millions of people around the world. We encourage you to stand up for yourself and others, creating an environment where everyone feels welcome. We invite you to open new doors, embrace mistakes, and grow from them.
Your new job
As a recruiter at IKEA of Sweden you’ll play an important part in matching the right talent with our current and future business needs. In the coming years, our recruitment development team will work to widen the perception of IKEA as employer, explore ways to attract and engage new competencies and keep improving our recruitment practices with insights as our foundation. Your focus will be to lead the full attract & recruit process for specific competence areas, together with key stakeholders. You’ll report to the Recruitment Manager and sit in a highly diverse and competent team. The impact of our work will help us achieve better business results and develop even better products that will resonate in homes and hearts across the world.
On a typical working day, you will:
- Lead your assigned recruitment processes from planning to offer, including stakeholder management and administration
- Plan for and activate different tools and techniques to identify, attract and engage qualified candidates, as well as maintaining talent pools. Our internal ATS (SmartRecruiters) and LinkedIn Recruiter will be your main tools, but it´s good if you have sourced and attracted talents from other platforms as well (GitHub, Stack Overflow etc.)
- Collaborate with stakeholders to build recruitment and sourcing plans
- Contribute to various development projects connected to talent management and recruitment development – within our local business unit and on a global cross-Inter IKEA companies level
- Connect with your business stakeholders as the subject matter expert on talent advising and recruitment matters
What we’d like you to bring to the table
The role as recruiter requires you to bring:
- Passion for people - behaviours, motivations and biases
- Deep interest in recruitment, project management and the tech/engineering industry
- Good understanding of boolean searches and experience in building talent pipelines for niche roles
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Experience in leading processes in a proactive and structured way, seeking efficiencies and improvements based on data and insights
- Facilitative leadership capabilities
- A strong ownership for the candidate experience, ensuring fair & objective processes grounded in our values-based recruitment approach
- A broad experience with in-house recruitment- and talent acquisition processes, with a track record of filling senior level positions. You have at least 5-7 years of experience in recruitment, preferably in the tech/engineering field.
It’s a plus if you also:
- Have a passion for integrating our Diversity, Equality and Inclusion approach into recruitments
- Have knowledge of talent market trends and a passion for insights and being up-to-date with the latest developments in the TA field
- Bring experience with different TA tools and a knack for picking up new digital tools
Be yourself, a recruiter, and more!
At IKEA of Sweden (Core Business Range) we design and develop all IKEA products that furnish hundreds of millions of homes around the globe and contribute to a better everyday life for the many people. The recruitment development team work across functions and Inter IKEA companies at a high pace with professionalism and a joint passion for making people excited about IKEA and the opportunity to make a difference. With us, you contribute to building a democratic brand and workplace that has a positive impact on both the planet and people's lives.
Get ready to assemble something new!
This is a permanent position at IKEA of Sweden in Älmhult and you will report to the Recruitment Manager. We believe in the power of the workplace, and the role requires you to be in the office the majority of your working time. The job requires a professional level of spoken and written English.
We look forward to receiving your application by 9th of June. In your motivation letter, please be sure to include your responses to the following questions:
- What do you see as your most valuable contributions to this role?
- How do you build trust within teams, and with colleagues and partners?
- What do you do to stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies?
At IKEA, we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. You’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. We believe that people’s different perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities make us better at understanding our customers’ dreams and needs.
If you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process, just let us know.
For questions, feel free to contact our P&C Recruiter, Timon Krommendam, at [email protected] or our Recruitment Manager, Deborah Eckerby, at [email protected].
Please note that applications sent via email will not be accepted.
We look forward to hearing from you!
