We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst – Strategy Development to join the Digital Area – Group Functions. In this senior role, you will orchestrate strategy across the organisation, translate it into clear priorities and integrated roadmaps, and enable leadership to make aligned investment decisions across platforms and domains.
You are a strategic business analyst with strong orchestration and communication skills. You excel at bringing disparate strategies into one coherent view, and translating that into actionable priorities, roadmaps and investment recommendations. You work horizontally across platforms, functions and leadership stakeholders, leading through influence and clarity.
You recognize yourself in several of the following: You have 10+ years of progressive experience in business analysis, digital strategy, portfolio management, or related roles in complex, global environments. You have a proven track record of orchestrating strategy across multiple business and digital domains, bringing clarity and alignment where there is complexity. You are skilled at translating business direction and multiple strategic inputs into integrated priorities and investment recommendations. You are comfortable working across business and technology, partnering with platform teams, architects, and senior stakeholders. You understand how to balance growth, low-cost, simplicity and standardisation, and can frame trade-offs clearly. You have strong experience in portfolio and investment management, including backlog framing, prioritisation, and sequencing. You are experienced in dependency mapping and sequencing across platforms and initiatives. You lead through influence and collaboration, helping teams align around one integrated direction. You are comfortable with ambiguity and enjoy building clarity and momentum in maturing organisations. You are motivated by the IKEA vision and culture.
The must-haves we see for this role: 10+ years of relevant experience in digital / IT / business transformation roles, with strong exposure to strategy development, portfolio management and business analysis. Proven experience working in a global organisation, with multiple stakeholders, platforms, and competing priorities. Strategy Landscape Orchestration: Ability to bring together key strategies (business, architecture, platform, supplier) and ensure they are relevant, complete, and aligned across the organisation. Strategy Translation: Skill in converting strategic direction into integrated priorities, roadmaps, and investment recommendations that teams can execute. Cross-Domain Alignment: Experience aligning product, engineering, and change initiatives around one coherent direction across platforms and domains. Portfolio Prioritisation: Demonstrated ability to enable trade-offs and sequencing across initiatives, dependencies, and value outcomes. Decision Enablement: Capability to provide clear insights, analysis, and recommendation material to support leadership decisions and governance. Strong analytical and communication skills. Excellent stakeholder management skills; able to work with senior leaders and cross-functional partners with credibility. High proficiency in spoken and written English.
A day in your life with us
You will play a key role in turning Business Strategy into clear priorities, joined-up roadmaps and well-framed investment choices across OSS (Operations, Services & Standardisation) and Group Functions.
You will secure that: The Business Strategy is translated into actionable priorities and visible implications across platforms, services and initiatives within our Digital Area. Platform strategies and roadmaps are brought together into one coherent, cross-DAGF strategic view. Business development backlog is structured into the right delivery paths — continuous improvement demands in verticals versus larger initiatives for horizontal solution delivery. Cross-platform prioritisation is enabled through structured analysis, dependency visibility, and value-based recommendations.
This means that you will: Work with vertical platform teams and service portfolio leaders to gather strategic inputs and consolidate these into an integrated roadmap. Support and shape business-digital strategy by connecting business needs, platform priorities and digital direction. Enable cross-platform prioritisation by working on trade-offs, sequencing, constraints and value realisation planning. Help ensure that investment is prioritised toward initiatives that best support Ingka business needs and the low-cost and growth agenda. Drive dependency mapping and sequencing across initiatives, platforms and stakeholders. Work closely with architecture and relevant stakeholders to ensure efficient enterprise architecture and maximise reuse. Consolidate and track strategic initiatives, dependencies, risks and value realisation progress. Develop analysis and recommendation material for prioritisation, roadmap and investment discussions. Identify and scan cross-domain opportunities and help frame where they may create business value. Operate within the standards and governance organisation, helping ensure consistent ways of working across the Digital Area
Together as a team
You will be part of the OSS & Group Functions Delivery (OGFD) Team under the larger Group Functions Digital Area, a global team responsible for delivering and evolving digital capabilities across key areas such as People & Culture, Finance, Procurement, Risk & Compliance and other Group Functions. You will be joining the OGFD team with the vision to create consistency, transparency and reuse across the Digital Area by connecting strategy, portfolio, architecture, investment choices and delivery commitments.
You will work closely with vertical platform teams, service portfolio leaders, enterprise architecture, standards and governance, solution delivery and business stakeholders across Group Functions and OSS.
We can offer you: The opportunity to shape how strategy development and portfolio steering work across the Digital Area – Group Functions at IKEA. A senior role with high visibility and impact across multiple domains and platforms. The chance to help build a more integrated, value-led way of prioritising digital investments. A team of great colleagues with broad experience across business, digital, architecture and transformation. A flexible and friendly working environment. Opportunities to have a global impact with your work.
