Country Legal Manager, IKEA

IKEA; Helsingborgs kommun; On-site; SEK 649,140 - 865,520; Full time

Job summary

IKEA is seeking a Legal Advisor in Helsingborg, Sweden, to provide legal expertise and support for management decisions, ensuring compliance and reducing legal risks. This full-time permanent position requires a natural leader with a Master of Laws degree and experience in fostering relationships and negotiating agreements. The role offers an exciting opportunity to drive change in a complex environment while contributing to the success of the business.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership skills and experience in inspiring, coaching, and developing teams.
• Extensive experience in reviewing and negotiating various agreements.
• Ability to handle unpredictable situations and communicate effectively in both English and Swedish.

Responsibilities

• Support management and stakeholders in running the business and mitigating legal risks.
• Equip leaders with legal competence for informed decision-making.
• Implement corporate governance measures locally according to group guidelines.
• Stay updated with relevant international and local legal developments.

Skills

Leadership

Relationship Building

Legal Drafting

Negotiation

Communication in English and Swedish

Education

Master of Laws degree in Sweden

Job description

Are you passionate about taking clear responsibility for legal matters and driving forward legal topics to run a business effectively? Using your leadership skills to nurture employee growth and ensuring task completion through guidance and support? Supporting management and other stakeholders to secure rights, assess obligations, reduce legal risks, and optimize business opportunities? Providing leaders with legal competence and confidence to make informed decisions? Be inspired by working together in an ever‑changing complex environment?

Our purpose is to lead and secure the business from the legal & governance perspective. We safeguard future opportunities by providing expertise on relevant areas such as corporate, agreements, litigations, legal compliance and governance.

When working within legal at Ingka Group you will cooperate both with our legal team on a Group level as well as a legal community worldwide.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership: You have directly or indirectly led teams before, and know how to inspire, coach and develop people.
• A Master of Laws degree in Sweden.
• Good at building strong relationships, collaborating and co‑creating and unleashing entrepreneurs through your leadership.
• Extensive experience of reviewing, drafting and negotiating a broad spectrum of agreements and legal information.
• Comfortable handling unclear or unpredictable situations and expressing ideas and opinions effectively in both writing and spoken conversation, in English and Swedish.

Responsibilities

• Pro‑actively support the management and other stakeholders to run the IKEA business and to secure the rights and assess the obligations to reduce exposure to legal risks and to optimize business opportunities.
• Equip leaders and stakeholders with legal competence and confidence to make informed decisions by leveraging strong guiding and counselling skills.
• Responsible for implementing the appropriate corporate governance measures locally according to group guidelines and support management to organize for compliance with relevant steering documents, delegations, etc.
• Keep updated with relevant international and local legal developments.
• Create an environment where the IKEA culture is a strong and living reality that embraces the diversity of co‑workers and customers.

We believe you are a natural leader who gets motivated by driving business growth and contributing to overall success and results through people. We also believe that you are comfortable by working in an ever‑changing complex environment. The role is daring and that's what makes it exciting! Now is your chance to take lead, drive change and help us in the continuously work of a stronger and a more effective foundation for the future!

Position type: Full‑time permanent.

Location: Helsingborg, Sweden.

Start date: To be decided through mutual agreement.