Business Intelligence Leader, IKEA BUSINESS Global, IKEA of Sweden, Älmhult

IKEA BUSINESS is in focus for the years to come. Business customers contribute strongly to the growth of IKEA and are seen as an important growth driver for the future. IKEA BUSINESS needs to prepare for the integration of company customers in all processes, establish ways of working and lead business transformation in these areas.

IKEA BUSINESS is about to establish an organization that allows to fully focus on business topics and work efficiently with stakeholders in IKEA of Sweden, our franchisees and outside IKEA with the ambition to grasp the full potential of business customers. Are you interested in contributing to this growth opportunity? Our work is based on the IKEA BUSINESS strategy. The business and action plan are our guiding documents and you are contributing to the continuous development of these processes and documents. We are creating a sustainable base in order to be able to meet companies in a professional way.

Assignment:
The role as Business Intelligence Leader within the IKEA BUSINESS team is to create a knowledgebase for IKEA about the B2B market, customers, competition and other relevant stakeholders. You will be responsible to collect all needed information and explore future business opportunities to enable IKEA to target business customers.

Tasks and responsibilities within assignments:
- Responsible for the development and implementation of market research and relationship to business intelligence and external consultants related to the B2B market
- Responsible for all briefing processes for IKEA BUSINESS to Business Intelligence and external consultants in close cooperation with the Global team
- Responsible to analyse customer and market data to support decision making process, compiles and deliver business intelligence reports to relevant end users and prepare presentations
- Responsible to establish a structured way to collect business customer data and insides and build up an internal knowledge database
- Contribute to all initiatives and projects within the IKEA BUSINESS team with valid data and information professional way
- Be an active partner, coach and facilitator for the IKEA BUSINESS strategic approach

Is this the right challenge for you?

To be successful in this role you need to have:
- Strong knowledge, experience for the complete furnishing solution and business customer needs for all customer segments
- Good understanding of the Global Market intelligence processes, offer and available data and information
- Significant and proven experiences with both qualitative and quantitative state of the art research methodologies
- Ability to multi-task and be proactive and independent in a dynamic environment

As a person we believe that you are a team player and you have genuine interest in the B2B furniture market. Strong desire to create trustful relationships across functions and passion for details, combined with an ability to see the big picture. You are able to facilitate creative and innovative processes, you have a strong excel skills, PowerPoint as well as basic database skills. You have a great communication and presentation skills verbally and written in order to build relationships with all levels of co-workers both internal and with external partners. You are flexible and responsive to changing work patterns and demands and throughout and methodical approach to work together with the ability to “think outside the box”.

Sounds interesting?

For more information about the position, please contact IKEA Business manager Karin Margotte, at +46 723527476
With questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruitment Specialist Hana Pazourova at, +46 708337087

We will interviewing continuously so please submit your application in English  as soon as possible but at the latest on January 25th, 2017!