Job ID: 264651

Date posted: 13/11/2024

Who you are

As the Business Risk & Compliance Manager, you lead a proactive risk management agenda, ensuring a safe and healthy work environment. You protect IKEA co-workers, visitors, partners, customers, and assets from preventable loss or harm.

• Extensive experience in the area of safety and security and are familiar with crisis and risk management topics, and in a line manager role.
• Experience in a line management role.
• Knowledge of local/national laws on risk management, health, safety, and security.
• Familiar with crisis and risk management.
• Ability to communicate clearly, confidently and able to adapt to different target groups, both verbally and in writing.
• Adept in training and educating large audiences.
• Independent, responsible, and calm under stress.
• Strong analytical skills; fluent in French and English, German is a plus.

Your responsibilities

• Ensure safety and security for co-workers, customers, suppliers, and assets, through training, audits, inspections and follow up.
• Promote a risk-aware culture and support business growth, including analysis of incidents and trends, investigating the causes of these trends reporting them to management.
• Implement and drive health, safety, and security frameworks and trainings for co-workers, ensuring compliance with internal requirements and external regulations (national and local legislation).
• Coordinate Crisis Management Team activities and internal controls according to the IKEA Emergency Response rules.
• Maintain functional safety systems and handle incidents effectively, ensuring compliance with IKEA standards and national/local legal requirements.
• Work closely with the Management Team on sensitive matters such as harassment, misconduct, information security, and legal issues.
• Support unit profitability by managing insurance claims, reducing fraud, and safeguarding assets.
• Serve as the main contact for Risk & Compliance with authorities and public security.

About this work area

You could think that we have supernatural powers, but the truth is that our team is really great at putting our insights together to detect potential risks early on. We’re a diverse group of people who work together to protect and strengthen the IKEA brand through our laser focus on risk management, data protection, compliance, business operations, health and safety. Thanks to us our assets, co-workers, visitors and customers can feel safe. At least we think that’s pretty cool!

GOOD TO KNOW

Please submit your application online and make sure to include your CV, motivation letter and any other relevant documents. Unfortunately, paper applications cannot be taken into consideration.
Following a first selection, successful candidates will be invited to a phone or video interview. After this step, we will invite selected applicants to a face-to-face interview with the line manager and possibly other stakeholders. A trial day, where you can get to know your team and get a better insight into your potential future workplace, may also be part of your application experience.
It is important that you are flexible in terms of working hours. Early or late shifts within our opening hours and Saturday assignments will be part of your working schedule.