Project Leader II Digital, Service Office Helsingborg (Temp)

IKEA; Helsingborgs kommun; On-site; SEK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

IKEA Retail Sweden seeks an engaged Digital Project Leader to drive the rollout of marketing capabilities across the country. You will bridge global program teams with country stakeholders, lead agile delivery, and ensure readiness and adoption of new digital products.

With 5+ years of experience leading digital change, you will plan initiatives, manage risks, and coordinate learning programs with the country P&C. This Helsingborg-based role starts December 2026 and may extend.

Qualifications

• Experience launching digital products and digital transformation.
• 5+ years leading projects, preferably in a technical environment.
• Strong change management and stakeholder leadership.
• Excellent communication with senior leaders and Technology Leadership.

Responsibilities

• Plan, manage and deliver digital initiatives to ensure a successful launch in the country.
• Lead gap assessment, identify dependencies and ensure country readiness for the launch.
• Track status, communicate progress to stakeholders and manage risks.
• Perform project reporting with milestones and quality/performance follow-up.
• Drive continuous improvement of project quality and KPIs.
• Collaborate across Ingka Group initiatives to deploy digital products that drive business results.
• Coordinate learning programs for different target groups in the country.
• Capture learnings and feed back to the global launch team.

Skills

Digital product launches

Digital transformation

Project management

Analytical skills

Agile delivery

Change management

Stakeholder leadership

Adobe Experience Cloud

CRM platforms

Data analytics

Marketing automation

Tools

Adobe Experience Cloud

CRM platforms

Marketing automation

Job description

\"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.

Hej!
I am Nicole Wai, the Country Digital Portfolio and Launch Manager at IKEA Retail Sweden.
We are looking for an engaged and communicative project leader, passionate about people and business, who can bring teams together to make things happen. Is that you?

IKEA is transforming the way we engage with customers through the OMA (Omni Marketing Acceleration) program. This transformation introduces industry-leading marketing technology, new processes, data-driven decision-making, and omnichannel customer engagement capabilities to help drive visitation, acquisition, and sales. As the Digital Project Leader, you will play a key role in ensuring a successful rollout and adoption of new marketing capabilities within the country. You will act as the bridge between global program teams and country stakeholders, drive implementation activities, securing readiness, driving change management, and enabling business value realization adhering to Launch & Adopt methods and tools.

As a person we believe that you are passionate about home furnishing and the possibilities digital can bring to delight and inspire our users and costumers to rapidly adopt new digital products. You appreciate the mix of strategic thinking and turning things into practice. You get energized by working both independently, interdependently and collaborate cross functionally.

To be successful in this role you have experience in launching digital products, digital transformation, and OMNI Retailing. You have proven training in Project Management and analytical skills with experience making decisions based on hard and soft data. You also possess knowledge and experience working with various technology platforms, including Digital Marketing Customer Engagement platforms, as well as experience in using a fact-based approach to decision making, both in day-to-day management and in making strategic trade-offs. Furthermore, you have experienced working with agile product development and deployment teams, including key events and artefacts. In addition, you have extensive experience in planning of digital product rollouts and adoption. Preferably, you have 5+ years of experience in leading projects, managing and delivering complex change processes/products preferably in a technical environmental as well as documented leadership skills in leading and inspiring others through change.

You have knowledge in following areas:
experience in planning of digital product rollouts
change management processes and techniques required for rollout of digital products
project management techniques including managing and leading teams and stakeholders
project governance processes including risk management techniques
Familiarity with Adobe Experience Cloud, marketing automation, data analytics, or CRM platforms is highly beneficial

You are appreciated for structured mind-set with the ability to perceive the larger picture along with the underlying details. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage and communicate with senior business-leaders and Technology Leadership is in your scope. Ability to simplify complexity and create alignment. Furthermore, you possess extensive ability to set goals, follow through, deliver and follow up.

Your responsibilities

As a Digital Project Leader you will drive the implementation of our digital products and services in the country through the use of new and existing technology and agile delivery methods to deliver at pace. In addition, you will ensure readiness of deployment within stipulated timelines.

You will:

• be responsible for planning, managing and delivering digital initiatives/ activities to ensure a successful launch in the country
• lead gap assessment, identifying key dependencies and ensuring country technical & business readiness for the launch
• keep track of status, change and communicate progress to affected stakeholders
• identify, mitigate and monitor risks
• perform project reporting with key milestones and following up project quality and performance
• drive continuous improvement of project quality and performance including integrating commercial KPIs
• work across initiatives within Ingka Group, contributing to a successful digital product deployment that drives IKEA business results & value realization
• Work in collaboration with the country P&C and ensure learning program for different target groups in the country is completed
• Be responsible for collecting and documenting learnings to feedback to the global launch team

In this role you will report to the Digital Portfolio and Launch Manager.

About this work area

Country Digital is the business partner responsible for Digital, while working as a seamless part of the global Ingka Group Digital organization. Ensure IKEA Digital products and platforms are delivered with excellence to meet the needs of customers and co-workers in order to enhance the whole IKEA shopping experience.

This role is a temporary, fulltime opening with preferable start in December 2026 and until August 2027 with possibilities of prolongation. Location Helsingborg.