Business Solutions Range & Supply is a part of IKEA of Sweden. We secure relevant solutions for IKEA Range & Supply – today and tomorrow. Our goal is to connect business and people with information technology.

We are looking for Business Analysts to the Product Engineering & Requirement team, belonging to Solution Area Develop the Product Offer (DPOP), IKEA Business Solutions Range and Supply

The future is near, join us and make it perfect

Are you passionate about people and information technology?
Do you have good communication skills, verbally and in writing?
Would you like to be part of the team working with solutions in the core of IKEA?

If this is you, continue reading and reflect in your application how you, with your experience, knowledge, motivation and capabilities will contribute as a driven Business Analyst.

The assignment
In the Product Engineering & Requirements team we work with a number of different solutions used to develop and maintain our products, including engineering, documentation, legal requirements etc.

The team consists of several Solution Owners, Business Analysts and Solution Architects working together developing user friendly business solutions.

As a Business Analyst you will mainly work with following:
• Requirements Management & Solution Evaluation
• Elicit, challenge and document improvement areas and stakeholders’ needs and transform those into value-adding solutions through functional and non-functional requirements, test scenarios, acceptance criteria, user stories etc.
• Facilitate the identification and elaboration of feasible business solutions for process, organization and service with business modelling while managing expectations among the stakeholders. 
• Validate compliance of business requirements through the Service Validation/Test & Configuration Management processes execution by the IT Suppliers, review test results, follow-up and steer on defined test
• Contribute to the creation of solution documentation in co-operation with process/business teams and IT Suppliers. Contribute to the creation of the ‘learning offer’ for the solution including training materials and delivery of training.

To be successful in this role you need to have:
• Experience in business analysis, requirements engineering process and configuration management.
• Good at facilitating, planning and managing workshops and activities.
• Good at identify, analyse and challenge business needs.
• Good understanding of project and software lifecycle management.
• Steering according to processes and methods for developing, integrating and building IT system.
• Have good understanding of working in agile environments.

About Business Solutions Range & Supply
IKEA is on an exciting growth journey becoming more accessible to the many people. We are investing heavily to develop and digitalize IKEA into the future. IKEA Business Solutions will support this journey by delivering expertise in business development while safeguarding running business. This way we empower our co-workers, customers and suppliers with the right solutions to optimise the customer experience and contribute to a growing IKEA.

Solution Area DPOP is a part of Business Solutions Range & Supply.

Business Solutions Range & Supply consists of 8 Solution Areas that support and mirror the Range & Supply processes. Our organization consists of approximately 250 co-workers based in different legal units globally. We have our main hubs in Älmhult, Helsingborg and Malmö (IKEA of Sweden AB), Dortmund (Distribution Services GmbH), Pratteln (IKEA Supply AG) and Warsaw (IKEA Purchasing Services Poland).

About Solution Area DPOP
DPOP manage and develop around 40 IT solutions, supporting users globally in the following areas:
• Product Development
• Range Management
• Product Information to our customers
• Product Documentation to our suppliers
• Compliance reporting
• Sustainability performance
• Sales Collaboration

We manages the DPOP portfolio of all initiatives with an IT component and lead and develop current and new solutions connected to the product development process. This is done in projects, major enhancements initiatives or in a continuous improvements work. We also support users with communication, learning and subject matter expertise.
In running business solutions there's a continuous work ongoing to improve the solutions. These improvements are implemented in so called Releases.

We work in an international environment which could lead to some travelling but primary location for this assignment is Älmhult.

Sounds interesting? Submit your application as soon as possible however not later than 25th March 2018. 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.

For information about the recruitment process, please contact Recruitment Specialist, Jonas Levin at +46 72 886 53 84

We look forward to receive your application, in English!

IKEA of Sweden, or IoS, is responsible for developing the IKEA range and making it available to stores and customers all over the world. IoS is leading business development at IKEA and the core IKEA matrices Range, Supplying, Technical and Commercial. At IKEA of Sweden you will work in a company with endless opportunities to develop in different operational areas and countries.