Patrik Antoni — CEO

IKEA is the world leader in home furnishing, currently present in more than 50 countries with about 420 stores and 40 IKEA owned shoping centres. Each year our stores andn shopping centres are visited by more than 800 million visitors. The vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. A vision that is easy to buy into and work towards. Working at IKEA has been very rewarding for me, both in terms of experiences as well as career development. I started at IKEA 2003 in Russia and has worked in Expansion, Marketing, Store Manager, Corporate Communication and now as a country manager. In my IKEA career I have worked in 3 countries and 5 cities. What I find best us that you are not locked into a field, in fact cross function experience is highly supported and encouraged. I am a people oriented manager with strong strategic capabilities. Since I love to achieve goals I am naturally result oriented and customer focused (understanding that happy customers drives business results). IKEA has extensive expansion plans worldwide and the goal is to double the turnover by 2020. In Russia we already have 14 stores and 14 shopping centres and are looking at further invesments as we see a big potential in the Russian market. At IKEA we are always on the lookout for new passionate people to join our company. The IKEA culture is known for its strong values and recruitments are value based and the understanding and behaviour is evaluated in performance reviews. IKEA also provides extensive development opportunities wether you want to develop as a specialist or into a leader.

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Experience: 25 yrs 10 mos