Climate In Forest And Land Use Manager

Raw Material, IKEA of Sweden, Älmhult

Are you passionate about combating climate change and making a tangible impact on our planet's future? Do you possess exceptional skills in carbon removal and storage?

Look no further! We have an incredible opportunity for you to join our team as a Climate in Forest and Land use Manager, playing a pivotal role in our mission to create a sustainable and carbon-neutral future.

Look no further! Our Removing and Storing Carbon team play a vital role to strengthening IKEA's position as an affordable home furnishing retailer by securing IKEAs capability to Remove and Store Carbon through Forestry, Agriculture and Products.

At IKEA, we are at the forefront of addressing climate challenges, and we are seeking a talented individual like you to lead our efforts in carbon removal and storage. As a Climate in Forest and Land use Manager, you will be responsible for developing and implementing innovative strategies to effectively remove and store carbon, ensuring a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions on a global scale.

Apply now and embrace this extraordinary opportunity to make a lasting impact and be at the forefront of the climate action movement.

Job description

In the role of Climate in Forest and Land use Manager, you lead a team working with investing in forest- and land restoration, re- and afforestation in the world to contribute to climate change mitigation, to secure the best possible contribution from the IKEA investment and for IKEA to meet our strategic target of becoming climate positive and to secure a trustworthy standard for carbon removals and land use.

In this assignment you will:

• Lead the team to secure, through participation in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol development, a trustworthy standard for carbon removals and land use.
• Lead, coach and develop a high performing team that will strongly contribute to reach the objectives and goals in Inter IKEA; identify and develop talents and ensure succession planning.
• Identify business needs in terms of data, resources and systems and recommend how IKEA should address the need for land use development, including identification of management practices that improves carbon stock levels.
• Be responsible for the Removing and storing carbon program, identifying, and evaluating projects for funding and investing in Carbon Dioxide Removals through Agriculture, Forestry and Other land use.
• Be responsible to secure evaluation of the potential contribution to climate change mitigation of potential investments and monitoring and follow up of performance of investments.

In your role, you act as an important ambassador of IKEA values and a role-model for fact-based business leadership.

This role is based in Älmhult, Sweden.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who is an exceptional professional who is highly motivated to lead people and drive competence development, while energized by the opportunity to increase customer value, foster business growth, and achieve exceptional results through the power of collaboration. With a strong commitment to integrity and high standards, you possess a mindset that continually seeks better ways to deliver outstanding outcomes, involving, and engaging people at every step. Join our team and become part of a business that leads the industry in creating a better everyday life for the many people, where your passion will be ignited, capturing opportunities, and making them a reality by inspiring and motivating individuals within our large organization. Embrace the challenge of finding common interests, building trust, and forging partnerships to reach shared goals, as you play a vital role in shaping a brighter future for all.

To succeed in this role, you have:

• Capability to identify and lead delivery of actions delivering to Strategy and solid knowledge of forest value chain and how it is operated and organized.
• Knowledge of how to balance and merge environmental, social, and economic aspects to define sustainable and profitable forest management.
• Expertise in carbon removal and land use
• Knowledge of forestry as an asset class, and Forest investments incl due diligence processes

You also have:

• Finance and negotiation skills.
• Strong ability in stakeholder management.
• Strong self-awareness, adapting your leadership to specific situations and individuals.
• Capability to create, develop and anchor business cases.
• Ability to lead business with a holistic view. Always act with the Customer, Supplier, total IKEA and Total Cost development in mind.
• Strong ability to develop high performing teams and leaders.
• Capability to perform business opportunity analysis, risk assessment, scenario planning and draw conclusions to support the right business decisions and implementations.

We also believe you have an ability to lead in the unknown and readiness to hit the ground running in this challenging assignment from day one.

Additional information

We really want to get to know you, so please (send us your CV and a letter with your answers to the questions below. Be short and concise:

• Why do you find this position interesting?
• In your experience working with Climate, Removing and Storing Carbon,
• What are the leadership capabilities that you activate the most?

For more information, contact Bruno Mariani Piana, Forest Investment Manager, [email protected]. If you have questions about the recruitment process, please contact People & Culture recruiter, [email protected].

This is a permanent position based in Älmhult, an inspirational working environment, based on creativity and innovation, which gives you the opportunity to work and interact with people from all around the world.

Predictive Index assessment will be requested during the process.