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.

In the Business Navigation team in Business Steering function you will be in the heart of IKEAs strategic decisions and support teams and leaders in performance management through business insights and recommendations.

We are looking for our next Business Navigator Range to join us!

ABOUT THE JOB

As Business Navigator Range, 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 Range and positioning, in order to ensure relevant strategy execution and goal fulfilment. 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 Range are:
• Develop methodologies and tools to come to insights about range performance and range development, in order to support stakeholders in improving the business
• Influencing and enabling fact based decision making through quickly generating insights based on consumer, market and business information
• Contribute to Business Intelligence development and business performance reporting
• Support strategy creation with facts, figures and insights
• Continuously identify and suggest improvements to the range change process

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 the customer in the centre. 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. If you have previous experience of working at IKEA, it is meritable.

In the role of Business Navigator Range 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 about the position, please contact Business Navigation Manager Malin Svensson at +46 766 190 597. If you have questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruitment specialist Olivia Håkansson at +46 734 223 166. 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.

We look forward to receiving your application in English, at the latest February 11th.

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.