BA - Meeting the Customer Specialist

Company Description
Do you have passion for Sales and being part of creating a great meeting with the customer in a rapidly changing retail environment? Are you a person that loves challenges and see these as opportunities? Do you get energy from influencing, interacting and working together with people from the whole value chain? Are you interested join our teams with a lot of passion for developing IKEA?
The IKEA vision, the IKEA business idea and the IKEA values are our source of inspiration about why we do what we do and how we do it. The IKEA direction is our latest guiding star on what it takes to continue the success of IKEA We are determined to build a new tomorrow and continue to deliver better products and better homes to the customers, and growth & profitability to IKEA, although it requires that we are better than ever before.
Job Description
You will ensure that the sales related requirements for a successful meeting with the customer are incorporated within the development of a defined business for both NEWs and running range.
Maximize the sales and growth opportunities with the new offer we are developing by acting as an ambassador for the needs of IKEA customers and IKEA retailing in an omni-channel market dimension within the product development process.
Your main work tasks will be:
Responsible to ensure that the sales related requirements for a successful meeting with the customer are incorporated within the development of a defined business for both NEWs and running range
Responsible for securing that all easy buying and easy selling requirements are fully understood in the Product Development Team and included in the product development process within a defined range offer.
Responsible for leading the product related easy buying and easy selling requirements as a part of the development of Meeting the customer solutions in partnership with the relevant IKEA development units
Responsible for securing the product pricing based on the value-based pricing principles
Responsible for the communicating the requirements for Retail readiness to all IKEA retailers.
Responsible for range and product knowledge content related to easy buying and selling

Qualifications
We are looking for you who have great interest for business and a capability to focus on a defined business area while maintaining a holistic perspective of cross business needs, opportunities and the areas impact on total IKEA. You have a retail background where you have gained good knowledge in the market and competitor landscape of business that you are accountable for. Your knowledge in the year cycle for the IKEA sales processes, retail environment and how the offer meets the customer in different touch points is very good.
We also believe that you are;
A good team player and have capability to influence stakeholders in order achieve the common goal.
Capability to bring data, information and knowledge to understanding and transform it into insights within the scope of the assignment.
Fluent in English, both spoken and written.