- Job ID: 317446
- Date posted: 19/11/2025
Who you are
'- Being passionate about people and having a strong belief in individuals’ potential
- Reflecting what IKEA stands for and the IKEA values
- Leading business through people
- Applying tactical and operational thinking
- Passion to create a people oriented working environment
- Accomplishes goals, completes tasks, and achieves results
- Ability to work independently, take own initiatives and responsibility but also a team-player
- Expresses ideas and opinions effectively in verbal and written communication
- Interacts and engages naturally with both managers and non-managers, both white and blue collar
- Solid experience in the role, with a strong P&C; background focusing on trade union management experience.
- Good level of Italian and English languages
A day in your life with us
Support Unit P&C; Manager,and managers and co-workers to be able to deliver their result and create an excellent co-worker experience. Provide people subject matter expertise, process people operations matters and ensure that the localized people strategies are put into practice in the most effective and efficient way. Contribute to constructive cooperation with workers council/unions where applicable.
What you’ll be doing day to day:
- Execute all operational People tasks at unit level to deliver an excellent co-worker experience
- Support the building of local business competence & performance working on relevant People goals
- Support and collaborate with the Unit P&C; Manager to implement the People Strategy
- Ensure recruitment and on-boarding of the right talents with the right contracts in close collaboration with the Recruitment Delivery Team SO and unit People Planning specialist
- Design and execute delivery of learning & training at unit level.
- Securing engagement and retention by understanding the conditions of our co-workers
- Implement Health and Wellbeing initiatives at unit level
- Support staff costs
- Ensure local employer communication is consistent, well perceived and builds on the IKEA brand
- Implement a co-worker relations plan that effectively manages all local interactions with co-workers and ensures that all areas in the unit work with the labour relations principles and uphold local policies, procedures and laws
IKEA is all about people, and our team make sure to bring the best people on board to keep our strong spirit of togetherness. We believe that different experiences and backgrounds collectively make us wiser and stronger, and we ensure that our co-workers bloom into their best selves as they contribute to our business.