职位 ID: REF20449Y

发布日期: 14/02/2025

The IKEA brand is one of the most successful home furnishing brands in the world. We are a values-driven company with a passion for life at home. Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people.

IKEA Range & Supply has the responsibility to develop, design, produce and supply IKEA stores with home furnishing solutions available to the many people. Our office operates in Istanbul as a part of Supply Area South under IKEA Supply.

The Purchasing Business Analyst enables business teams to elevate business development by leveraging the strengths of each core role and focusing our efforts effectively, facilitating teams in making fact-based decisions using qualitative data, allowing us to work faster and more accurately​​​​.

PBA will be working with multiple business teams meaning that you will both broaden your network while gaining new, diverse business experience. You will be able to make an impact on both a local, regional and global level. 

As a Purchasing Business Analyst, you will report to a BDM & supporting several business teams. This is a great way to broaden your network and knowledge of our business landscape. This also means that you are a critical link in knowledge sharing between teams. You will combine your knowledge in analytics with your business understanding to create predictive and prescriptive insights. You will analyze complex business challenges by using both internal and external data sources and formulate insights and analyses in a clear and simple way to meet business teams needs. Your role will be crucial to identify opportunities and improvements, cost savings, process efficiencies, and performance optimization within the teams you work with.  

Here are some of the activities that you will lead: 

• KPI/APL Follow up, analyzing and highlighting deviations, aggregating the team results 

• For various reporting purposes secure a consistent foundation, gather, process, compile and analyze data linking to Logistics, Engineering and Supplier Development to enabling fact-based decision making

• Preparing/visualization the different sources of data, showing the history, trends, benchmarking, connection between different data 

• Supporting the creation/execution/follow up of APL, SDP, PDP, BCPs, RFQs or other processes   

• Identify relevant data sources, verify data accuracy, source missing information and organize data in usable formats to support analysis and fact-based decision making  

• Support and guide the teams in addressing business issues or opportunities through data-analysis 

We will recruit Purchasing Business Analyst for the Textile Products Category in Istanbul. 

The most important competence in this role is to be curious & have great analytic capabilities. You are able to process large amounts of data, draw conclusions and make fact-based recommendations for the business team members to act on. You see the value, and find motivation, in enabling fact-based decision making through data and facts. Communication is key in this assignment. Both to communicate data in a simple, insightful and inspiring way as well as enable your colleagues to take action. Your collaboration interface will be big so stakeholder management will be very important!   

We also believe that you have: 

• A solid background from one of the core business team roles  

• Deep understanding in Purchase Development processes, ways of working and KPI landscape  

• Comprehensive understanding of roles and responsibilities in the Business Team 

• Good knowledge of Sales planning, Supply planning, Capacity planning and interdependencies.

• Excellent knowledge and experience of tools/applications such as, Excel ISOT, QS PowerBi etc.

• Desire to develop the business capabilities, identify business opportunities, find better ways and enable change

In this role you will work with business processes from both purchasing, logistics & engineering. We believe that you are extra strong in one of these three. Once you are in the role, you will get the support to make sure that you close any competence gaps, at the same time you will train your fellow PBA-colleagues within your area of expertise! 

Please send us your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English. We really want to get to know you, so make sure you tell us why you would be a good fit for this role.

The last day to send your application is 28 February 2025. Please note that we will continuously look at applications so do not delay, make sure to show us your interest in the role as soon as possible. We are interviewing continuously and will close the advert when we find the right candidate. So don’t hesitate to apply today.