IKEA Supply is responsible for securing that the product offer is produced and delivered to our customers. We lead the supply agenda across many functions and work together with all business areas, different business units, but also retail markets to secure customer availability in all markets and sales channels at lowest total cost. 

Supply Chain Development is going into the next phase of a great journey. By gathering the end-to-end supply chain development agenda into one organisation, embedding process and the development and management of digital solutions into the business, we create the best preconditions for meeting the future with the right competences and business capabilities. By this we will also create the preconditions to a world class supply chain that enable IKEA to efficiently respond to the ever-changing customer needs. Our mission is to design & secure the preconditions for a world class supply chain, run and improve everyday solutions, keep together and optimise the development and innovation agenda. 

Our Supplying system landscape is grouped into different Development Areas and today the Development Area Need Planning & Balancing within Supply Chain Design & Planning supports mainly in quantifying what, where and when we plan to buy, store and replenish in order to reach sales goals at lowest cost along with finding most efficient way to balance the supply and capacity. Main solutions in our portfolio are DSP Fulfillment, Supply Chain Matrix, SCPIX, and Supply Plan Information. Majority of our solutions are built on Blue Yonder ERP solutions.

Do you have good communication skills, verbally and in writing? 
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.

As a Business Analyst within Need and Balancing team you shall be part of different Projects, responsible for movement within Portfolio and also provide your expertise in different Blue Yonder Solutions. 

The team consists of several Solution Owners, Business Analysts, Process Developers  and Solution Architects working together developing user friendly business solutions.
As a Business Analyst you will mainly work with following:

• Analyze business needs and requirements to define and specify new functionality and design in digital solutions, supporting the IKEA Need Planning & Balancing users and stakeholders spread across the globe
• Work closely together with Need Planning & Balancing process and business representatives to maximize the value for the organization with a strong and relevant business solutions.
• Contribute to the creation of solution documentation in co-operation with process/business teams. Contribute to the creation of the learning offer for the solution including training materials and delivery of training. 
• Ability to lead the Portfolio along with Development Area Leaders of Need and Balancing.

We offer a challenging role in a constant changing and global environment, you will be able to drive and strongly influence IKEA Need & Balancing´s future using digital solutions/ Processes. 
To be successful in this role you need to have:

• As a person you are passionate about business, people and technology.
• You are curious in nature and capable of identifying new opportunities and solutions to respond to business needs. You are excited by the possibilities that digital solutions bring to improve business performance and co-worker experience.
• You have the ability to focus on details as well as the “big picture”.
• We believe you have good analytical, technical and communication skills, presenting results and solutions in an understandable, concise and inspirational way.
• It would be a great advantage if you have experience from working with Need Planning & Balancing Processes and also have some knowledge around BY ERP Solutions. Process Expertise will be an advantage to drive the Portfolio and Agile ways of working for the team.

Sounds interesting?

We look forward to receiving your application in English latest 19th of March 2021. 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 candidates.

If you have any questions regarding this position, please contact the recruiting manager Srinivas Gajjala at +46 723 527 727. If you have any questions about the actual recruitment process, please contact our Recruitment Specialist Jonas Levin +46 728 865 384.