Business Analyst

IKEA of Sweden, or IoS, is responsible for developing the IKEA range and making it available to stores and customers all over the world. IoS is leading business development at IKEA and the core IKEA matrices Range, Supplying, Technical and Commercial. At IKEA of Sweden, you will work in a company with endless opportunities to develop in different operational areas and countries.
Range & Product Development is a part of IKEA of Sweden. The Product Engineering & Requirement team secures relevant solutions for IKEA Range & Supply – today and tomorrow. Our goal is to connect business and people with information technology.
The future is near, join us and make it perfect?
Are you passionate about people and information technology?
Now we are looking for a Business analyst for the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) area.
Job Description
As a Business analyst you explore and define business needs and the rational for change and recommend solutions that deliver business values. This role requires both a strategic and operational business understanding as well as a technical understanding for the specific area of responsibility.
As a Business Analyst you will mainly work with following:
Requirements Management & Solution Evaluation
Elicit, challenge and document improvement areas and stakeholders’ need and transform those into value-adding solutions through functional requirements, test scenarios, acceptance criteria, user stories etc.
Facilitate the identification and elaboration of feasible business solutions for process, organization and service with business modelling while managing expectations among the stakeholders.
Clarify business needs during definition and validation of high level & low level design in cooperation with architects and developers.
Review test plans and test cases to ensure compliance to the requirements. Support the planning and execution of testing activities.
Contribute to the creation of solution documentation in co-operation with process/business teams and IT Suppliers. Contribute to the creation of the ‘learning offer’ for the solution including training materials and delivery of training.


Qualifications
You are passionate about business and technology and appreciate the mix of strategic thinking and turning trends and requirements into practice. You get energized by working interdependently in agile teams. You are the type of person that can manage to see the big picture as well as the details and you collaborate and communicate with your stakeholders to build trust and partnership in order to reach our common goals.
To be successful in this role you need to have:
Experience in business analysis, requirements engineering process and configuration management.
Experience working with product lifecycle management
Good at facilitating, planning and managing workshops and activities.
Good at identify, analyse and challenge business needs.
Good understanding of project and software lifecycle management.
Steering according to processes and methods for developing, integrating and building IT system.
Have good understanding of working in agile environments.

Required/relevant work experience or educational background:
University degree or equivalent
Strong business analysis experience
Experience in driving digital change in a constantly changing environment

Preferred:
3 year experience in equal/comparable position
Experience from the IKEA value chain
Experience from product development
Experience from solutions from PTC

We manage the portfolio of all initiatives with an IT component and lead and develop current and new solutions connected to the product development process. This is done in projects, major enhancements initiatives or in a continuous improvements work. We also support users with communication, learning and subject matter expertise.
In running business solutions there's a continuous work ongoing to improve the solutions. These improvements are implemented in so called Releases.
We work in an international environment which could lead to some travelling but primary location for this assignment is Älmhult.
Additional information
Your Next Challenge?
Submit your application as soon as possible however not later than the 3rd of October. Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidate.