Job Description

Leasing Business Partner - Gurgaon
"You care about making a positive impact in the world. You understand greatness requires thinking differently. An inclusive and accepting work environment is important to you.
A job at IKEA is so much more than home furnishings. Together, we work to make a better everyday life for the many. It's the perfect fit if you want to contribute, grow, and share. Join the team and start a better life for yourself."
Location
Gurgaon
Employment type
Full Time Permanent
Department
Real Estate & Leasing
Deadline
2025-06-17
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Candidate profile (title) Who you are
Candidate profile (text) - Default language You truly love working in the retail property leasing industry, where you get to develop something that excites people. By always being on top of the latest trends, you understand what tomorrow's customers desire. In everything you do, you always have the local customers in mind, and you want to develop something beyond expectations.
You enjoy working closely with others and managing productive relationships. When negotiating you always seek common ground to settle a matter of mutual interest.
For you, it is natural to apply critical thinking to constantly challenge existing strategies, objectives, and ways of working. You're motivated by champion, new methods, digital systems, and processes to enhance performance and deliver better results. You like to look for new business opportunities and have an eye for new potential.
To be successful in the role we believe that you bring a solid and relevant experience working with commercial real estate leasing. Preferably you have been involved in retail development projects and repositioning or redevelopment of shopping centers. You have a successful track record of leading negotiations and maintaining productive relationships. You are a true team player with great communications skills in English, who loves to work in close collaboration with colleagues and partners. Furthermore, this role will have an emphasis on working within different projects, therefore experience in project set up is key.
You have expertise of:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in commercial property leasing - retail/office and 5 of which have been in managerial position.
• How to create synergies between various tenants and retail categories, which provides a complimentary offer for customers and a strong combination of commercial tenants and between different segments of mix-used projects
• The real estate market; the prices, standards, and structures for the commercial real estate market in Delhi/NCR.
• The applicant must have good experience in dealing with cross functional team with high-level stakeholders or investors.
• How to identify, build and maintain trusted relationships with partners in a responsible manner, selling and sharing an idea to work together.
• In-depth knowledge of rental processes and documentation.

Key responsibilities (title) A day in your life with us
Key responsibilities (text) Ingka Centers is in the middle of an exciting journey, where we create and develop Meeting Places, into something way beyond an ordinary shopping Centre. As Leasing Business Partner, you have an important function in this journey by securing the right and most relevant retail partners in our Meeting Places in our projects. We give you the opportunity to be a part of a journey where we are taking an important step forward in development to create innovative solutions for the meeting place of tomorrow.
Amongst other things you will:

• Provide short- and long-term asset development strategies by working with leased premises on existing and future Meeting Place projects.
• Drives the selection process for the Meeting Place, considering the Potential Tenants list and the Yearly Lease Plan.
• Provides the Meeting Place Manager and Project Development Manager with information and comments during the approval process.
• Responsible for evaluating available options in times of negotiations by sharing inputs and aligning with Meeting Place Manager and Project Development Manager.
• Aligns on selected options and retail categories with the Meeting Place Manager and Project Development Manager.
• Analyses tenant performance in terms of financial stability, appropriate sales levels, and relevance to the new Offer Development strategy

In this position, you will be based in Gurgaon, India. Your closest manager will be the Country Leasing Manager
Team vision ( title) Together as a team
Team vision (text) We've embarked on an exciting journey to transform our shopping centers into destinations always anchored by IKEA, and that go way beyond shopping, offering a carefully selected series of activities, events and initiatives tailored to the needs of the communities that surround them.
That's what we call meeting places.
As a long-term partner of IKEA, we share our vision, our culture and our values, while what makes our businesses different is the way we fulfil our vision. If the idea of IKEA is to create a better life at home, we work hard to create a better everyday life outside of the home by developing virtual and physical meeting places where people can meet shop and connect with their communities.
We have big plans for the future that involve expanding to new locations, opening smaller-scale concepts closer to the city centers, digitalization, and most of all, living up to shared sustainability goals. We're constantly looking for energetic, purpose-led and creative people who'd like to join us on our journey to create meeting places around the world.
Sounds exciting? There's a lot more to know about us! Take a look at our website, read our stories and try to imagine how you can be part of our team helping us reach our goals!
As a Leasing Business Partner at Ingka Centers, you will be a part of the Operations Function. The purpose of the Operations function is to optimize the Meeting Place experience for the many people and deliver sustainable business growth for our Partners and Meeting Places. Moreover, to achieve operational results, drive efficiency improvements, and enhance commercial performance and brand value of the Meeting Places.
Let's connect Questions and support? Let's connect!
Letxc2xb4s connect If you have any questions about this position, please contact the hiring manager Puneet Khullar at puneet.khullar@ingka.com. If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to recruiter pooja.lakhani1@ingka.com
We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, though no later than 17 June 2025. We're reviewing applications continuously and might close the ad before the closing date if we find the right candidate.
Please submit your application online, by clicking on the apply button. We are not able to handle any applications made by e-mail. Warmly welcome
Why you will love us
From the deep forests in Sweden, we have spread our culture and values around the world. At the heart of our offer are our beautiful home-furnishing products and solutions, made with care for our planet, reaching millions of customers.
At the heart of our business, are our wonderful co-workers representing diversity in all dimensions and passionate for life at home. We all contribute with our uniqueness and we want to grow and develop together.
Our vision, to create a better everyday life for the many people inspires and guides us in everything we do. This is IKEA.
What we all have in common

• Living our values
• Being your unique self, while respecting and including others
• A passion for home furnishing
• Performing & delivering while learning & developing
• Having fun!