Business Navigator Job

For our Distribution Center in Dubai, we are currently looking for a Business Navigator who will provide fact-based leadership and proactive guidance on business priorities, support and challenge the organization in performance management, goal setting, budgeting and forecasting, provide and visualize action-oriented conclusions built on fact-based analyses and business insights.

• Perform first level of 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.
• Develop and update the Risk Register and proactively define mitigation actions together with risk owners in the business.
• Manage costs, forecast results, and drive organizational efficiency.
• Develop tools and working methods related to Business Navigation.
• Challenge and support the operations with simulations, scenarios, and forecasts.
• Responsible for the input to pricing process.
• Enable business development and innovation by being an active partner in business planning. Contribute to the Action Planning and goal setting process.
• Lead business performance management, lead the translation of business plans into goals, secure relevant performance reporting and follow-up and lead fact-based decision making.
• Secure overall implementation and compliance to processes and ways of working by securing governance structure, deviations handling, meeting calendar and year cycle in the unit.
• Lead local project portfolio management, to ensure right priorities in relation to business plan ambitions and balanced resource planning.

• Good knowledge of IKEA Supply Chain and specific processes.
• Good process / project and indirect leadership skills.
• Knowledge of IKEA Business Planning and Action planning process.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, as well as proven experience from using Business Intelligence tools.
• Fluent in English
• Able to critically analyze information and systems.
• Able to strategically plan complex organizational & functional interactions.
• Ability to manage multiple and changing processes and priorities.