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Company Description

Why this role?

Are you deeply familiar with the purchasing process Source-to-Contract and curious about how we can make it work even better?

Have you worked close to business in roles such as Business Developer, Supply Planner, Purchasing Data Specialist, or similar — and feel ready to take the next step?

This role is for you who knows the business from the inside and wants to grow into a Business Analyst role, learning by doing while creating real value for IKEA.

At Inter IKEA Group, we create a better everyday life for the many people, our customers, co-workers, and suppliers.

Within Supply Chain Development (SCD), we together with our business partners and stakeholders develop capabilities (in four dimensions process, people, data & technology) that enable a strong, integrated value chain across IKEA.

Procurement Development is part of SCD and focuses on the full supplier lifecycle — from sourcing and contracting to performance and compliance. We work end-to-end, always with improvement, collaboration and value creation in mind.

Job Description

As a Business Analyst with focus on Source to Contract, you will act as a bridge between business and digital development. You will bring your strong understanding of procurement processes and help translate business needs into clear, value-driven requirements.

Business Analyst education or previous Business Analyst role experience is not a must for this role, what matters is your business understanding, curiosity, communication skills, and willingness to learn the BA craft.

You will:

• Work close to stakeholders within procurement as well as external partners
• Help clarify needs, challenges and opportunities in the Source-to-Contract area
• Constructively challenge ways of working to find better, simpler and more value-creating solutions
• Translate business needs into structured requirements together with Digital Product Teams
• Support consequence and impact analysis to enable good decision-making
• Actively contribute to solution exploration, testing, adoption and continuous improvement
• Support change and learning by contributing to communication and learning material
• Help follow up the value delivered after implementation

Qualifications

This role is a great next step for you if you:

• Have solid business experience within Procurement / Source-to-Contract
• Have worked in roles such as Business Developer, Supply Planner, Purchasing Specialist, Data Specialist or similar
• Know the reality of procurement processes, systems and data – and see opportunities to improve them
• Have a strong interest in learning the Business Analyst role on the job
• Dare to challenge constructively to find better solutions
• Enjoy structure, analysis and sense-making — without losing the big picture
• Are curious, collaborative and motivated by delivering business value
• Feel comfortable communicating, influencing and constructively challenging to create better outcomes

You don’t need a formal Business Analyst education or previous BA title — we value business insight, learning mindset and potential.

Additional information

Please note, for this position it is possible to be located in both Warsaw, Poland and Älmhult, Sweden.

We will first consider co-workers employed at Inter IKEA Group impacted by organizational changes. For this specific recruitment priority will be given to impacted co-workers in Supply provided competence requirements for the role are met.

We are looking forward to your application! Please submit both your CV and motivational letter in English.