Can you really reach out to the whole world, 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. At IKEA of Sweden you will work in a truly international and dynamic environment. You will have different opportunities to learn new skills and where the goal always is to create a better everyday life for the many people.

We are looking for candidates with the aim to become Business Navigators, people ready to join us over the next 12 months!

ABOUT THE JOB

As Business Navigator, you work every day together with teams and decision makers to come to better decisions, identify new opportunities and initiate actions that will make IKEA grow and our customers happy. Your tools are data, facts and figures, to which you add insights and recommendations. You will be leading performance management for one or more areas. This requires passion for and ability to spot business opportunities behind data, an analytical and business drive mind-set and strong communication skills.

ABOUT THE ASSIGNMENT

Your main responsibilities as a Business Navigator are:
• Performance management of the product range within the Business Area through analyzing and creating insights across the value chain from supplier to customer, identifying opportunities and improvement areas and actively sharing these
• Influencing and enabling fact based decision making through quickly generating insights based on consumer, market and business information
• Together with the team, identifying opportunities and risks through scenario planning, modelling, risk assessments and contingency planning
• Leading and coordinating different processes, i.e. range dimensioning, internal pricing and sales and supply planning across the Business area
• Leading project and portfolio management as well as general range management on overall level.

ABOUT YOU

We are looking for goal oriented persons with the ability to implement, deliver results and follow up. Leadership capability, ability to create clarity and strong analytical skills is a must, as is having both a holistic view and an eye for details. You will partner with the business to make an impact on the current and future business of home furnishing. You are humble, have willpower and the ability to create togetherness and enthusiasm around you. You are flexible, used to handling changes and are always striving for simplicity in everything you do. You work proactively, take initiative and have the creative ability to find new solutions and optimize and challenge the existing ones.

In the role of Business Navigator we expect you to have:
• Experience from working with performance management, such as Business Controller
• Experience from informal leadership and coaching others
• An academic degree within finance, business administration, economics or similar
• Knowledge of calculation systems, MS office package, reporting tools and business information tools such as Qlikview.

If you have questions regarding the position or the recruitment process, please contact Recruitment Specialist Olivia Håkansson, 0734 22 31 66. Please note that this advert is about building up a bank of candidates for future Business Navigator vacancies that we expect in IKEA of Sweden over the next 3 to 12 months. As part of the recruitment process we will organize an Interview day on November, 29th.

We look forward to receiving your application in English, at the latest October 8th 2017.

IKEA Range & Supply has the responsibility to develop, design, produce and supply IKEA store with home furbishing solutions available to the many people. Each year IKEA Range & Supply introduce 2,000 new products in the IKEA stores. The total range is almost 10,000 products.