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 Steering function you will be in the heart of IKEAs strategic decisions and support our Leaders in analysis, business insights and facts. IKEA Range & Supply are on a venture to move to higher level of advanced analytics and data driven decision making and we are therefore looking for a Development Leader to lead the initiative. 

About the job

As Development Leader, your role will be to contribute to the business priorities by leading the development within the area of advanced analytics. 

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 areas where more data can be captured and to see 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. 

In this role you will be reporting to the Business Intelligence & Analytics Manager.

About the assignment

Your main responsibilities as Development Leader are:

•    Lead the execution of projects and activities that build and deploy analytical solutions and capabilities– based on decided roadmap.
•    Communicate and anchor plans with relevant stakeholders 
•    Define resources needed for realization of actions and plans and lead virtual team of advanced analytics competencies
•    Together with the team - be an active business partner by delivering on advanced analytic questions and driving actionable business insights 
•    Take an active role in keeping IKEA Range & Supply at the forefront of techniques, tools, methods and thus supporting the selection of and development of tools
•    Identify opportunities to move IKEA Range & Supply to a higher level of advanced analytics/data driven decision making 
•    Support the organization by being an ambassador and advisor of tools and training within the area of advanced analytical tasks and machine learning techniques

About you

We believe you have a sharp logical mind-set, passion for analytics and great problem solving skills. You dare to challenge existing ways of working in order to find new and better ways. Your strong communication skills combined with your high business drive enables you to steer the business initiative and the people towards development and the unknown. You easily build strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders and have the ability to explain complex topics in simple terms, acting as a translator between what is technical and business reality. You have great interest for the IKEA business model and how to contribute to a better everyday life for the many people.

In the role of Development Leader we expect you to have:
-    Experienced and knowledgeable in business analytics and advanced analytics
-    Proven project management experience, preferably from leading a similar initiative
-    Good business understanding
-    Experience from working in a big company, preferably from operating in a global context
-    An academic degree in either economics, supply chain, statistics, mathematics or equivalent

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 due to vacation, we expect to reach a decision on the final candidate earliest in August 2018.

We look forward to receiving your application in English, at the latest June 22nd.

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 almost 10,000 products.