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Hej Team Manager,

Do you want to furnish the future with innovative solutions?

With us, you can feel at home in your work while sharing that feeling with millions of people around the world. We encourage you to stand up for yourself and others, creating an environment where everyone feels welcome. We invite you to open new doors, discover new tech possibilities, embrace mistakes, and grow from them. As our Team Manager, you’ll have many opportunities to try things you’ve never done before.

In Range Operations, we manage and lead the central Data & Analytics team, driving collaboration, technical excellence, and data-driven decision-making across Core Business Range and IKEA. Ensure consistent methodologies, deliver high-quality insights, and stay aligned with evolving technologies and business needs.

Your new job

We are currently looking for two dedicated Team Managers, each responsible for leading a specialized team. One team focuses on front-end development and data analytics, while the other focuses on data science. Both roles involve team leadership, close collaboration with product owners and other stakeholders, and a strong focus on team development and delivery.

In this role, your typical week can look something like this:

• Driving continuous improvement, collaboration, and knowledge sharing of methodologies, tools and materials across the IKEA Data Analytics community
• Collaborating and communicating with other parts of the organization to understand the needs of stakeholders and devise possible solutions
• Ensuring consistency by supporting the use of relevant development techniques, digital frameworks, and best practices
• Being responsible for making sure that the insights and conclusions from data science are easily available to other parts of the organization
• Supporting a culture of data-driven decision making across IKEA organizations
• Working closely together with data scientists, data engineers, architects, analysts, peers, and other relevant roles across IKEA as well as in your team
• Keeping up to date with the latest technological trends
• Assuring quality and contribute to development and testing of deliverables

What we’d like you to bring to the table

The role as a Team Manager requires you to have:

• Expertise and passion in understanding business problems and applying Data & Analytics to try and solve them
• Direct or indirect management experience - leading people to perform and deliver, continuously work with competence development, recruitment, and proactive succession within the area of responsibility
• Capability to effectively lead and manage Core Business Range team of Data Scientists
• Experience in developing data and statistics-driven solutions for real-life business problems
• Ability to clearly communicate statistical and machine learning concepts to non-technical audience
• Ability to act as Core Business Range point of contact and escalation within the IKEA Data Science community
• Ability to provide technical leadership for Data Scientists in the organization, fostering a culture of support and collaboration in the team and across the Data & Analytics organization

It’s a plus if you also have:

• Proven track record in preparing and enabling the implementation of common ways of working, tools and competence in the business
• Strong capability in delivering to Organization strategies and goals
• Well-versed in budgeting process by preparing initiated input on need of resources, development and investment or service needs
• Experience working in an agile set-up
• Ability to enable preconditions for the team to perform their assignment according to our IKEA values and set business priorities

Additional information

Be yourself, a Team Manager, and more!

Inter IKEA Group is the group of companies that connects IKEA franchisees with range development and suppliers and aligns the overall IKEA strategic direction. Every day, we strive to develop, produce, and sell products and services that are affordable and accessible to everyone. With us, you contribute to building a democratic brand and workplace that has a positive impact on both the planet and people's lives.

Your health, wellbeing, and development matter most to us, and our benefits are designed with you in mind. As a co-worker and a person, you are an essential part of our down to earth, playful, and inclusive culture, collaborating with others across roles, departments, and even across the globe. In this curious and optimistic environment, you’ll find endless opportunities to grow. Make us the home of your career.

We welcome your application

Get ready to assemble something new! We look forward to receiving your application by 28th of November at the latest.

We are based in Älmhult, Sweden. We believe that your presence with the team and working the majority of the time in the workplace is important.

Please also note that we only handle applications in English and no applications coming in by email. If you have any questions about the role or the recruitment process, feel free to connect with the Recruiter Vera Bendz; [email protected]

At IKEA, we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. You’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. We believe that people’s different perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities make us better at understanding our customers’ dreams and needs.