Business Navigator

Hej, I´m Robert! 
I´m looking for a Business Navigator to our amazing team in BA TESEC

Business Area TESEC consists of Textiles, Collections and Social entrepreneurs’ business development. In BA TESEC we are a group of down-to-earth, straightforward people with a passion for home furnishing and making the impossible possible. We come from all over the world, but we share an inspiring vision: “To create a better everyday life for the many people”.

In BA TESEC we develop time limited collections which include articles surprising with new design, functions, and materials. Here you will have the opportunity to work with a wide range of product types and face many technical challenges every day.

As Business Navigator you lead performance management in all areas and all dimensions. You are an active business partner to teams and decision makers, lead with fact-based insights and active risk management. You facilitate business development and innovation by actively exploring the future through scenario planning and modelling.

Furthermore, you will be leading the business performance management and translate business goals into KPIs. Actively use Business Intelligence and relevant reporting tools for an analytical approach of performance evaluation. Share and communicate to all stakeholders their business insights, identifying risks and opportunities. 

Then you will facilitate a strong performance culture where deviations are detected early, initiate the follow-up of corrective actions, and contribute to fact-based decision making. You will also lead and coordinate Business Intelligence tools development and secure that all incoming requests support business development. 

Acts as an ambassador for a performance driven culture and works to enhance business understanding in the organization. Support scenario planning, modelling, risk assessment and contingency planning. In the matrix, contribute to the development of common ways of work, methods and tools and share best practices.

This is a position where you can grow and learn about IKEA. You have an academic degree within finance, business administration, economics or similar. You are goal and delivery-oriented person with passion for details, good in ensuring structure, prioritization, and accuracy. You have a genuine interest in people and a passion for simplifying everyday work life for co-workers with a results-oriented mind set. 

Maybe you have experience from Business Navigation in a global environment and have knowledge of business intelligence and reporting tools and MS Office package. You have the power of initiative, having the courage to question and challenge across topics. You have strong communication skills; being able to explain in a simple way and actively listening. Are fluent in both verbal and written English.

This position is placed in Älmhult.

This is a place where you can focus on doing what you love. There are no dress codes or closed offices. No day is ever the same. All ideas are welcome. Everyone tries to pitch in when needed, and failures are seen as a way of learning. When you enter our building, we want you to feel that you can inspire billions of people all over the world.

Are you ready to make the world a little better, together? We want to hear from you!  
We look forward to receiving your application in English at the 28th of March 2022.
If you have any questions regarding this position or recruitment process, please contact Hiring manager Robert Nilsson,  Robert.nilsson1@inter.ikea.com or Recruitment specialist Christina Appelqvist  +46 766113408.

What if you could inspire to make everyday life just a little bit better?  

The answer is simple: You can. This is what motivates us at IKEA. We’re constantly searching to find new ways to be better. We use insights from real life at home all over the world, learning about the needs and dreams of people. We use our home furnishing knowledge to help inspire people with ideas and solutions that will help them live the life they want.  

Do you want to be a part of creating a better everyday life for the many people? 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. We are here to offer a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. That is our promise, and we do this every day with great passion and energy.

We have a new IKEA direction with many opportunities within our reach and we are taking next steps together to set ourselves up for success.  “The product range - our identity” and Range & Product Development is our core capability and one of our most important enablers to ensure that we live up to the IKEA vision.