Development ＆ Possibilities

At IKEA, we bring out the best of our people regardless of their background or experience. Each of our coworkers brings their unique talent to work every day. We also want every co-worker to feel valued and realize their potential. This is why we offer all co-workers a variety of leadership and competence development programs and other benefits. Because when our co-workers grow, so does IKEA.

We offer exceptional career and learning possibilities. We encourage you to try different roles, change between functions and even move abroad (if that’s what you want). You can design your own career path according to your development plan and future goals. We believe in everyone’s ability to develop. Because as you grow, IKEA grows too. As you develop, you may decide to explore new experiences across the borders of what you’ve done before. You may move into new work areas as you build your skills, into another IKEA company entirely, or maybe move to an IKEA development centre, service office, store or a supplier on the other side of the world. You really can just keep growing and going.

A job at IKEA could become so much more, growing in whichever direction you prefer to take it. Like the sound of that? Our available jobs might be a nice place to start.

Then you might want to work with us at one of our IKEA stores, distribution centre, or service office. It is among the many IKEA companies where you’ll find nearly 200,000 IKEA co-workers along what we fondly call our ‘value chain’. You may not realise it, but every IKEA product is imagined, prototyped, produced, transported, managed, and marketed through a chain of IKEA companies to reach our customers. That’s the IKEA ‘value chain’ and it cradles every IKEA product from beginning to end. And you could work anywhere along the way! From creating, making and moving IKEA products to meeting customers in real life or online, you can help IKEA fulfill customers' imagination of home living! Oh, and don’t forget IKEA Food – we need somebody to serve these delicious Swedish meatballs together.

Your personal growth fuels your diverse opportunities within IKEA. Along the way, you’ll get various support for your personal and professional development regardless of the direction you choose, you can create your own unique IKEA career journey. So, you can grow in your current role, taking on new responsibilities, or moving into different functions right where you are."

When you work with us, you have opportunities to not only do what you do now and learn to do it better, but also to explore new things you’ve wanted to do and try things you never knew you could do. You can add to your skills, shift gears, change directions, travel or even move around the world. All while you’re ‘working at IKEA’ – that is, for one of the many companies that make up the IKEA brand, opening the doors to a lot of possibilities.

Lots of people stay with IKEA for years growing from job to job, sometimes in the same IKEA location. Other people move from a role in one department and grow into something very different, taking on a new challenge across the country or across the globe. Big cities. Small towns. You have a lot of options.