IKEA is about making things better. All the way from the factory floors to the homes of the many people. We have a passion for renewing and improving things. This is part of our DNA. But how do we know what’s better or what to improve? By unleashing the full potential of data about and around of products, internal and external. It is about taking quicker and better decisions with facts as a base - going from a reactive way of working to a more proactive and prescriptive way of working - enabling people to focus on value adding tasks. We need to start somewhere as change is happening fast. Machine learning and other advanced analytics tools have a learning curve, the more we practice, the better we get. It’s about exploiting opportunities where we have data now and exploring areas where more data can be captured and drive value and where we need to build new capabilities. We are now concentrating resources in a central function for building up capabilities and competence within advanced analytics.

Come join us as our next Data Scientist within Advanced analytics!

About the job

As Data Scientist, your role will be specifically focused on developing our ways of working with advanced analytics. You will combine your knowledge of statistics and mathematics with your business understanding and some software development skills to create insights and predictions by processing data from several sources communicating the results to our stakeholders. In this role you will be part of the Advanced Analytics Team and have the possibility to affect and lead the way in performing data analysis and analytics in the future. You will report to Business Intelligence & Analytics Manager Monica Giselson- Olsson.

About the assignment

Your main responsibilities as Data Scientist are:
• Perform exploratory and predictive analysis with Supply Chain and Product Development data both individually and in a team by collaborating with other data scientists, analysts, solution owners, solution architects and subject matter experts.
• Be part of projects involved in challenging data wrangling tasks, as well as creating new ways of working within advanced data analysis using existing and new data sources, both internal and external.

About you

As we are on a development journey in how we work with advanced analytics, machine learning, cloud-based platforms and AI, we need you to have at least 3 years of experience in a similar role working with advanced analytics in a multinational organisation and an academic degree in statistics, mathematics, econometrics, computer science or similar. It is crucial that you are able to work independently while also having the business and team top of mind. You have great interest and knowledge for data science, and are comfortable in building models and applying algorithms to solve business problems. Your good communication skills enables you to build relationships with business stakeholders and translate your analysis results to their reality. SQL is familiar for you and you have programming skills in R or Python. 

Most of all, it is important that you get excited from stepping into an environment with big development opportunties. Our next Data Scientist colleague can visualise the opportunities and finds energy in helping us further develop our department and ways of working. As a member of the team there will be a mix of learning new skills from current team members as well as teaching others skills that you possess and have a passion for.

If you have questions regarding the position, please contact Business Intelligence & Analytics Manager Monica Giselson-Olsson, +46 768 667 010. If you have questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruitment Specialist Olivia Håkansson, +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.

Please send your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English by December 10th 2018. We really want to get to know you, so make sure you tell us why you want to work at IKEA and why you would be a good fit for this role. We are also curious in knowing; what is your passion in analytics. 

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