UAE National_Regional Sustainability Leader
Full Time6 months ago
Job Description
Regional Sustainability lead secures the integration and implementation of the IKEA Al Futtaim sustainability strategy – People & Planet Positive, by both putting demands on the business and being a competent sustainability business partner, while securing localised relevance. The voice and influencers of sustainability both internally and externally, sitting close to the business where decisi...
Desired Skills
- Planning & Organising- Coordinates and directs activities to help achieve business objectives
- Driven for results - Accomplishes goals, completes tasks, and achieves results.
- Relationship building - Develops virtual and other collaborative relationships to facilitate current and future objectives
- Teamwork - Collaborates with others (incl. virtual) to achieve goals.
- Dealing with ambiguity- Comfortably handles unclear or unpredictable situations
- Flexibility- Changes direction as appropriate based on new ideas, approaches, and strategies
- Inspiring others- Motivates others to accomplish organisational goals
What equips you for the role
- Minimum 5 years of work experience in sustainability and/or business preferably retail
- Preferred: Retail market experience
- Preferred: Knowledge of the Brand, culture, values and way of working
About Al Futtaim Group Dubai, UAE
Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim is one of the most progressive regional business houses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Structured into six divisions; automotive, retail, electronics, engineering and technology, real estate, financial services and general services, Al-Futtaim operates through more than 60 companies and maintains a decentralised approach, giving individual businesses flexibility and versatility to maintain a competitive stance.
Employing in excess of 20,000 people across the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Egypt, Syria, Pakistan, Singapore and Europe, this approach benefits employees, providing a clearly defined work culture where individuals are empowered with authority and responsibility for their work.
The success of Al-Futtaim is attributed to proactively managing change whilst upholding the values of integrity, service and social responsibility. The majority of businesses, built on a portfolio of world leading brands, dominate their sector.
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