Business Analyst

Business Analyst - Product Compliance & Verification Management
We are on an amazing growth journey with the goal to enable a more efficient product development process in IKEA, supporting each product’s entire life-cycle from early idea to design into a finished product ready to make our customers everyday life better.
We are looking for curious, creative and ambitious people to join our team. Are you the Business Analyst we need to help us get there? Let us know who you are and how you can contribute!
About the job
IKEA is on a journey to create a connected flow of product information across the value chain. Building new structures will set the foundation for implementing the new identifiers and is a prerequisite to connect the value chain and enabling a simplified and cost- conscious way of working. By using a Compliance and Verification Management (CVM) system IKEA is enabling a collaborative and efficient product insurance process to ensure that our products fulfill IKEA internal and legal requirements.
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.

This will be done both for our existing solution and the new CVM solution in creation.
About You
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 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 Compliance and Verification management and preferably also Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Good at facilitating, planning, and managing workshops and activities.
Good at identify, analyze, document and challenge business needs.
Good understanding of project and software lifecycle management.
Steering according to processes and methods for developing, integrating, and building IT systems.
Have good understanding of working in agile environments.
Required/relevant work experience or educational background such as:
University degree or equivalent
Strong business analysis experience
Experience in driving digital change in a constantly changing environment

Preferred:
Experience from equal/comparable position
Experience from product development
Experience from solutions from PTC

We work in an international environment which could lead to some travelling but primary location for this assignment is Älmhult.
Älmhult
At IKEA we believe that we’re better when we’re physically together for collaboration, dialogues, and conversations. We believe in the power of human interactions; the informal chats, the energy, belonging, and creativity generated by people being in the same place. Our approach is that we spend most of our time in the IKEA workplace and with flexibility to work from home when relevant. This particular role is based in Älmhult.
Application process
If you are interested in this position, submit your application, your CV and a motivation letter where you tell us who you are and what you consider is important for you. Remember to be personal in this. We want your application latest the 15th of April and 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.