Job-ID: 266457

Dato for opslag: 21/11/2024

What you'll be doing day to day

• Provide relevant, user-friendly business information, promoting standardised reporting and securing competence in the organisation/unit (as applicable) to allow for analysis and understanding of performance and for making optimal decisions.
• Perform data analysis to identify trends, opportunities and potential risks, and present them in an understandable and actionable manner at a country/unit level
• Support retail/country business navigation partners in achieving a healthy profits and loss through key performance analysis and evaluation
• Use the understanding of how information is applied today, to determine the future needs of reporting at unit and country level
• Be an ambassador for global business information solutions and common tools as well as the production of ad hoc reports when standard solutions are not available
• Secure the multi-dimensional view of the business, when conducting the necessary analysis, to evaluate retail performance with the customer in focus
• Applies understanding of the goals, business priorities to follow through on commitments and achieve results in line with the IKEA vision and values
• Co-operates with team members in other and own units to accomplish common goals

What you'll need to have

• Proven analytical skills combined with an ability to communicate figures in an understandable and inspiring way.
• Understanding of the business/operations and its main drivers, major business changes and its consequences, scenario thinking
• Good understanding of data science, new technologies, analytics and their wide ranging application in business context
• Excellent knowledge of Excel, Power BI, Power BI Dataflow, PowerQuery (or DAX) is mandatory.
• Good knowledge of SQL, Google Cloud Platform's BigQuery (views, ad-hoc queries, scheduled queries and custom tables)
• Fluent English written and spoken
• Fluency in Italian is mandatory
• Good understanding of IKEA’s strategic landscape and business direction and of the IKEA Concept, the IKEA Brand Identity and the IKEA culture & Values
• In-depth knowledge of IKEA business tools, processes and cycles
• Ability to take in new information, compile, organise, analyse and make relevant conclusions from substantial amounts of data
• Strong and well proven collaboration skills
• Ability to make things happen in a fast and flexible way during change
• Eye for detail and accuracy
• Experience from a retail market; store and/or Service office with a good understanding of how the commercial and financial processes works
• Experience of developing new ways of working and implementing proven solutions for efficiency purpose (not applicable for unit role)
• Experience in data analysis, developing metrics and projections based on analysis results
• Proven track record in delivering under time pressure

About this work area

By maximising the use of existing reports, and creating new reports/tools where needed, the purpose is to provide timely, relevant information and analysis to support the business navigators and other stakeholders in the unit/organization (as applicable). Through this, the function contributes to profitable growth, better decision making as well as a strengthened performance culture. Support overall Ingka business performance that is beneficial to people & planet and protects and adds value to our assets, securing profitable growth and financial independence. By providing services, supporting a strong compliance framework, and effective governance to enable entrepreneurship and safeguard our people, customers and businesses