Purchasing Business Analyst - CAT Pigment & Veneer

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, together with our straightforward business idea, shared values, and a culture based on the spirit of togetherness, guides us in everything we do. To offer a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low, that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. To meet the needs of our customers we have a unique business model and value chain. It includes product development, design, supply, manufacture and sales. And of course, it starts and ends with our customers. About IKEA

IKEA Purchasing Services (Czech Republic) spol. s r. o. is a purchasing organization which cooperates with furniture and home furnishing manufacturers on producing furniture with perfect design and quality for many people, and which ensures distribution into retail stores IKEA worldwide. We are a team of about 150 co-workers of over 20 nationalities. About IKEA Purchasing Services (Czech Republic)

Purchasing Business Analyst enables the business teams to take business development to next level, where we can utilize each core roles (Business Developer, Production Engineer and Supply Planner) strengths and focus our efforts. So how does the PBA role fit in? Well, the Purchasing Business Analyst is there to enable the teams to take fact-based decision on qualitative data.

As a Purchasing Business Analyst, you will report to a Business Development Manager and will support both Pigment & Veneer teams in our unit. 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 source of data, showing the history, trends, benchmarking, cost break-downs analysis, connection between different data.
• Supporting the creation/execution/follow up of action planning, supplier development process, purchasing development process and business contingency planning, 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.

The absolute 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:

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

• Fluency in English, both written and spoken. You are comfortable in presenting and engaging with stakeholders at all levels.

There will be limited business trips in this role.

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, you do that under message to Hiring Manager. The last day to send your application is the April 4, 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 the close the advert when we find the right candidate. So don’t hesitate to apply today.

Curious to know more? Let’s connect!

If you have questions about the position, please contact hiring manager Joe Nelson (josef.nelson@inter.ikea.com). If you have questions related to the recruitment process, please contact Lucie Drastilová (lucie.drastilova1@inter.ikea.com).