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Job Description

Job ID: R0007949

Date posted: 10/06/2024

One brand, many companies, and many, many people – that’s us in a nutshell. Spread all over the world, we have a passion for home furnishing and an inspiring shared vision: to create a better everyday life for the many people. This vision is achieved by offering a wide range of home furnishings solutions with good design and function, at prices so low that as many people as possible, will be able to afford them.

IKEA Services India is one of the Supply Areas for IKEA, which represent South Asia Region comprising of India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Dubai (Supply Area South Asia-SASA). SASA has a rich history of sourcing from the South Asia region for more than four decades. Over these years, we have brought in many processes and best practices that have improved the way we work with our business partners. Transformation of textile, carpet industry and recycle plastic industry are a few such examples. This partnership with suppliers has helped to continuously grow our sourcing operations.

• Work closely, on a constant basis with SA Management Teams on performance management; preparing relevant reports on KPIs, follow up and portfolio insights, identifying gaps for business development.
• Establish total IKEA Supply performance overview in the Area for SA forums and agenda and take care of the stakeholders relations dedicated to performance and follow up
• Secure that existing KPI landscape is reflecting real workloads of SA business units and is aligned with IKEA strategic goals
• Facilitate SA Planning & Execution Process (SA PEP) and monitors SA Roadmap fulfilment.
• Create and maintain balanced portfolio (consolidation of plans) ensuring movements towards defined direction and goals, constant monitoring and evaluating of the portfolio to ensure that portfolio is giving high returns at low risks.
• Actively navigate portfolio, identifying gaps and advice for optimization & prioritization to decision makers and relevant stakeholders
• Is the first line of contact when it comes to SA Performance, SA PEP and Portfolios; supports co-workers to understand processes, tools and calculation methods.
• Organize and lead periodic trainings for SA KPIs and SA PEP in the Organization; develops and maintains relevant and up-to-date learning offer
• Identifies current and future business needs, that leads to improvements of existing or implementation of new tools and Power BI dashboards in the area, of SA PEP, Portfolio and performance management
• Implements and secures Governance in the area of Performance Management and SA Portfolio
• Actively contribute to IKEA Supply business navigation agenda, SA Business Navigators matrix and Portfolio network including leading global projects
• Act as an ambassador of IKEA values and Role Model
• Responsible for operation resource planning, reporting and be a speaking partner for all business units when it comes to navigate in the most efficient way and provide first level of insights for all business units and managers related to their cost center responsibility.
• Support the business team with financial expertise including but not limited to annual screening, formality and financial check for new supplier, financial analysis, etc.

To be successful in this role, below competences are required:

• University degree within Finance and/or Management; and relevant work experience between 7 to 10 years
• Ability to understand IKEA Strategic Landscape including SA Planning & Execution Process and SA Roadmap
• Ability to understand Supply Areas Assignment and structure
• Good knowledge of reporting landscape and business intelligence tools in general
• Good knowledge of project and portfolio management methodology and tools
• High level of proficiency in the Microsoft Office 365 package, especially Power BI
• Good knowledge of market specific conditions and macroeconomics trends

For this position holder, it is important to fulfill the following capabilities:

• High level of analytical skills,
• Capability to perform key business analysis, risk assessment, scenario planning
• Capability to drive quick and clear conclusions out of information available
• Capability to see the total picture and drill down to every single detail at the same time
• Capability to understand and act in a complex environment, translate a strategy into action and achieve results.
• Ability to initiate and lead the change towards new ways of working and applications in a big organization; great leadership
• Ability to build trustful relations with different stakeholders in remote locations; excellent communicator
• Creative and engaging approach to business surrounding

This position will be based in Bangalore, India. The selection process will take place continuously, so please send in your CV along with your motivation letter in English as soon as possible but latest 28-June-2024. Please note that we don’t accept application through email.

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. So, don’t delay, please send us your application today.

If you have questions about the position, please write to Recruitment India.

We are an equal opportunity employer:
At IKEA, we value diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are committed to providing coworkers with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We encourage individualism and invite you to come join our team and be yourself with us! We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristic protected by law. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need.

Skills Required

• MS Office
• Analysis skills
• Power BI
• Business analysis