Business Analyst

Business Analyst
New Business & Innovation (NB&I)
IKEA of Sweden, Älmhult

Can you really reach out to and influence the whole world, while working in a tranquil idyll in the middle of nowhere? In Älmhult, Sweden you can. Älmhult is home to IKEA of Sweden. Here the IKEA range is developed and made available to stores and customers all over the world. It is also in Älmhult where we explore the future to create ideas and innovations for a better everyday life at home for the many people.

Right now we are looking for a Business Analyst within the NB&I Shared Solutions* team. The Business Analyst position requires passion for, and ability to spot, the business opportunities behind the data. This paired with an analytical and business driven mind-set with the responsibility of creating insights, translating figures into opportunities and validating and enabling fact based decision making within the Shared Solutions group. The Business Analyst is capable of, and responsible for, quickly generating calculations, models and estimations based on limited insights to support the decision making process, often in hectic and time constraint circumstances, while interacting with different stakeholders in the IKEA product development processes, in- and outside NB&I Shared Solutions. The position reports to the Product Development Platform Manager within NB&I Shared Solutions.

Interested?
The Business Analyst position is a challenging and rewarding position with great impact on the decision making processes with the New Business & Innovation group and broader IKEA but it needs something to be successful. We love what we do and we seek people who love their work too and who share our values in their professional and everyday life.

To be able to deliver in this role, the Business Analyst should have:
-Strong analytical and abstract thinking skills
-Strong business understanding and experience, preferably in a product development setting
-A strong drive to deliver result
-The capacity to deliver information for decision making processes on short term
-Strong process and project management skills
-The capacity to steer and work in a developing and changing environment
-Understanding of purchasing, supply chain and development processes
-University degree in technology, business administration or corresponding knowledge

*NB&I Shared Solutions develops solutions that can be used in different product applications and across Home Furnishing Businesses, on behalf of the business areas.

The objective is to build strategic product development platforms to be used as foundation in the majority of our future development of our range offer in order to significantly improve all elements of Democratic Design.

With the IKEA vision as a starting point, and without limitations to products, we focus on creating capabilities and solutions that are relevant in the life at home today and tomorrow. Care to join us and set the future?

We offer this position in a fast paced, truly global environment with an endless supply of challenges and development opportunities. If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Recruitment Specialist Hanne Posselt (+46 73 232 01 08).