Business Navigator

At IKEA, we aim to make healthy and sustainable choices affordable and accessible for all. To make that happen, we need people with imagination. People who know that everyone has a right to feel at home. People who share our vision of a better everyday life for the many people.

Supply Chain Operations (SCO) organisation with its 800 co-workers connects our customers with IKEA products in a simple, affordable and sustainable way. We deliver excellent transport and logistic solutions today, tomorrow and over time by optimising replenishment solutions, defining physical goods flow capacity needs, managing the goods flow, sourcing & developing transport & logistics capacities and leading & securing Supply Quality.

We contribute to customer satisfaction through securing customer perceived availability, delivering lowest cost over time, leading towards sustainability and ensuring the right quality for all services.

Business Navigation provides fact based leadership and proactive guidance on business priorities.

As Business Navigator (BN) you provide fact based leadership and proactive guidance on business priorities. You also challenge & support the rest of the organisation in performance management and provide action-oriented conclusions built on fact-based analyses and business insights. For this assignment you should also have the aspirations and capabilities to take on more responsibility and grow into a leadership position within the next couple of years.
**Your main assignments as Business Navigator include**:

- Perform first level business analysis to identify trends, opportunities and potential risks, and present them in a clear and actionable manner
- Identify and act on potentials for business performance, improvements and costs development
- Actively work with budgeting process, manage costs, forecast results and drive organizational efficiency
- Contribute to the APL (action plan) and goal setting process
- Development of tools and working methods related to Business Navigation
- Challenge and support the categories and global operations with simulations, scenarios and forecasts
- Create the input to pricing process
- Actively work with portfolio of projects
**We're a good match, because**:

- You possess good English language skills with the ability to cater to non-native audiences
- You have a strategic mind that allows you to break down complex information, organise it, and present it in a clear and engaging way
- You have relevant working experience in supply chain, logistics, finance and or controlling
- You have a good understanding of IKEA supply chain and its processes
- You have good communication skills and the ability to build trustful relationships
- The ability to buildtrusting relationships and long-term partnerships with stakeholders at all levels.
- You have a high proficiency in all Microsoft Office tools, especially in Excel as well as proven experience from developing and using Business Intelligence tools
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**More Information**
This role is full-time (40 hours per week) and based in Pratteln, Switzerland. This role reports to the Business Navigation Manager SCO, Anna Wieteska.
**About IKEA**

At IKEA, we do things a little different. We think, differently. Act, differently. And work differently as well. We like to break things. Like rules. And then make things. Like music-playing lamps. And beds disguised as sofas. Even plantballs that help us look after our planet. It’s all part of our vision - to create a better everyday life for the many. And it’s been keeping our co-workers going for over 75 years. By 2030, we hope to help millions more look forward to going home. Maybe you can help us?

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.

At IKEA we believe that we’re better when we’re physically together for collaboration, dialogues and conversations. We believe in the power of human interactions; the informal chats, the energy, belonging and creativity generated by people being in the same place. Our approach is that we spend most of our time in the IKEA workplace and with flexibility to work from home when relevant.

Another thing fuelling our success is our values-based culture. While we are unique individuals with endless differences, something we share is our commitment to lead by example, work together, find better ways and to get things done. We believe in life-long learning, where we all play a part in helping each other (and our business) grow.