Data & Analytics Leader

Who you are
We are looking for Data & Analytics Leader to join us in developing the IKEA of the future using data and analytics. In Business Support Domain in IKEA Digital we provide data and insight to decision-makers in market, country and global roles to take decisions that will grow the company, drive profitability and drive the creation of a sustainable business model.
Data and Analytics Leaders are senior individuals who lead Data Scientists, Data Analysts/Stewards, Data Engineers, and can take responsibility for designing and building a great team. We are especially looking for candidates whose experience includes:
• Proven experience as a senior leader
• Experience recruiting and leading a team
• Experience using data and analytics to drive omnichannel retail transformation, or significant business transformation in another industry
• Ability to synthesise trends such as urbanisation, the rise of megacities, shared living, changing customer expectations (especially in Asia) and demographic change, identify the business problems and opportunities that these trends present, and lead others in the use of data and analytics to solve them
• Academic background in mathematics, statistics, engineering, computer science or a related field
• Passion for developing your colleagues’ careers and helping others fulfil their potential
• Strong knowledge about / practical experience with machine learning models, especially in a commercial setting
• Knowledge of techniques like time series analysis, numerical optimisation, operations research, causal inference, Bayesian modelling, system dynamics, differentiable programming
• Experience in using process mining of massive transactional datasets to improve process execution
• Broad knowledge of cross-functional digital product development principles and the importance of rapidly validated learning cycles to optimise performance long term
• Broad knowledge of collaborative software engineering practices (Git, Agile, DevOps)
• Strong knowledge of SQL and Python for data processing and analytics
• Strong communication skills to share your findings and approaches with technical and business stakeholders
• This is our wish list! If you don’t recognize yourself in all these points, you might still be an excellent candidate for the role.
This is our wish list! If you don’t recognize yourself in all these points, you might still be an excellent candidate for the role.
At IKEA, you’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Our different views, backgrounds, and personalities make us better understand our customers, give us more fun at work and spark more and better ideas. Perhaps your unique take on something could lead to a great idea that creates a better everyday life for the many people.
What you'll be doing day to day
Your main task is to accept accountability for achieving complex business outcomes through data and analytics, define (in co-operation with your stakeholders and team) a vision/strategy / plan to do this, and lead others to execute.
You will work to define these outcomes with partners in other parts of IKEA such as our CFO division, Retail Operations leadership, Market Support leadership, country management teams and others. Within this framework, there is significant scope for a highly entrepreneurial approach where you, through the medium of data and analytics, push the limits of what IKEA can achieve commercially.
For Business Support domain, those business outcomes typically concern operating IKEA day-to-day and defining and implementing IKEA’s business model for the future. In particular, we develop data and analytics products that enable omnichannel transformation. We aspire to meet customers where they are through a range of meeting points (especially city centres), and online channels, and offer a range of delivery options.
You will, most of all, lead and coach your team and drive a fun and high-performing culture and work environment. As a leader accountable for the output of a significant organisation, you will have responsibility for reporting on the effectiveness of the work you lead, and collaborating with product, engineering, and design colleagues to define Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), epics, features, stories and other agile artefacts; and to execute agile ceremonies.
As Data & Analytics leader, you will report to the Data & Analytics Area Manager, and you will manage a team of Data Scientists, Data Analysts, Data Engineers, and others.
Our team within IKEA
You will work in Data & Analytics together with other Data & Analytics Leaders, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Data Analysts, Machine Learning Engineers, Data Stewards and Data Architects. Together you will be joining cross-functional teams consisting of colleagues from Technology, Product and Design from the business domain of Business Support. All of you together will be creating the best solutions to support strategic enterprise decisions, financial forecasting, and business planning.
We see so many opportunities for what we can accomplish and have the ambition to be a world-class team. At the same time, we believe that our work is not just about solving business problems, but also about learning and having fun together.
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
• Work on some exciting problems as described above, and you are encouraged to spot new opportunities or to collaborate with Data & Analytics colleagues in other specialist teams
• Opportunities to have a global impact on your work
• Flexible and modern tools: we deploy on Google Cloud Platform and we use a lot of open-source tools across the board
• Your choice between Mac and Windows
• A team of great colleagues to learn with and from (with world-class experience across all aspects of Data & Analytics)
• Continuous learning (we aim to spend 20% of our working time on learning)
• Flexible and friendly working environment in a truly value-based company
Apply now!
Does this sound like your next challenge? IKEA offers an exciting and empowering work environment in a global workplace. And as the world’s leader at life at home, you have exceptional opportunities to grow and develop together with us.
Please apply with your application in English.