Sustainability Performance Specialist

Who you are

You are passionate about using data, insights and performance management to create meaningful business impact. You enjoy transforming complex sustainability ambitions into clear actions and measurable results, while building strong partnerships across the business. With a combination of analytical skills, stakeholder engagement and a drive for continuous improvement, you help others make informed decisions that contribute to a more sustainable future.

To succeed in this role, we believe you have:

• Experience from delivering performance management solutions, where you design and implement KPIs, dashboards, and reporting that support decision-making and drive real business impact.
• Strong data and performance management skills, with the ability to collect, validate, and analyze data with high accuracy, efficiency, and a focus on automation and timeliness.
• The ability to translate complex sustainability data into simple and actionable insights, helping markets and functions understand performance and take the right actions.
• Experience in supporting and enabling stakeholders, working closely with business teams to follow up on performance, set priorities, and define clear goals based on insights.
• A strong understanding of IKEA and/or retail understanding, with a practical mindset, ensuring that reporting, analysis, and tools are simple, relevant, and aligned with everyday business and frontline needs.
• University degree and 3 years of relevant experience, or at least 5 years of relevant professional experience

Your responsibilities

In this role, you will enable Ingka to turn sustainability ambition into measurable business value by owning impact measurement, data quality and performance follow‑up end‑to‑end. Develop methods, tools and reporting that translate strategy into retail‑ready action, informing decisions for countries and functions while strengthening compliance, insight‑driven prioritization and frontline execution.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Design, evolve and govern Ingka’s sustainability performance metrics and KPIs
• Build and run data collection, consolidation and integration into dashboards; secure accuracy, timeliness and automation
• Lead topic performance analysis to support sustainability initiative and topic owners in Group functions and in countries
• Within assigned topic, lead the annual internal and external Sustainability reporting cycles and external disclosures with right‑level narratives; simple and grounded in business reality
• Support stakeholders in sustainability performance management, including performance follow-up, scenario analysis, and goal setting.

This is permanent role, located in Malmö, Sweden. You will report to the Sustainability Performance Team Leader. Please note that relocation support is not available for this position. Therefore, we are looking for candidates who are based within commuting distance of Hubhult, Malmö, and can work on-site at least three days per week.

Together as a team

Group Sustainability, 40+ dedicated colleagues, leads the sustainability direction, strategy, development and performance management (for Group Functions, Ingka Investments, and Ingka Centres), and secure the deployment of sustainability in the countries. You will be one of these 40+ colleagues and will be in a team with fellow sustainability performance specialists.