Business Architect, Business Solutions , IKEA Retail Services AB, Malm

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Business Architect, Business Solutions Retail and Expansion
IKEA Retail Services AB, Malmö

Do you want to be an important part of IKEA's growth? We are investing heavily to develop IKEA into the future. This means for example delivering one of the world's biggest multichannel programs. It also means developing a number of solutions to meet the needs of our customer and co-workers today and tomorrow. - Come and show us!

IKEA is on an exciting growth journey becoming more accessible to the many people. We are investing heavily to develop IKEA into the future. This means for example delivering one of the world's biggest multichannel programs. It also means developing a number of solutions to meet the needs of our customer and co-workers today and tomorrow.

IKEA Business Solutions will support this journey by delivering both large development programs and fast, innovative and customer focused results. And we need to do this while we safeguard running business.This way we empower our co-workers, customers and suppliers with the right solutions to optimise the customer experience and contribute to a growing IKEA.

Business Solutions Retail & Expansion takes responsibility for all business solutions connected to the retail and expansion organisation. In close cooperation with our retailers, currently located in 28 markets worldwide, we develop new solutions and keep existing ones relevant and running. Our aim is to generate happy customers and happy co-workers, and by that contribute to our growth.Within our organisation we gather competences in solution management, project management, service management and architecture.

Your assignment as Business Architect includes:

· Collaborating with relevant stakeholders to shape ideas into business architecture for business solutions improvements, describing the current state, future state and transition states to guide the detailed design and delivery of business solutions
· Designing and documenting a concrete, robust, and appropriate architecture covering people, process, technology and organisation impact for the change in scope as well as an actionable transition roadmap
· Leading information architecture activities within the domain(s), establishing directions and providing advice.
· Responsibility to secure an understanding of the architecture to relevant business and IT stakeholders – within and across organisation(s) – and seek agreement with business leaders/owners
· Accountability for guiding that the scope of pre-studies and projects are in line with decided architecture principles
· Providing information and advice for better informed business decisions within and across organisation(s) to optimize portfolio & roadmaps
· Identifying and actively communicating opportunities, benefits, alternatives, impact, risks, dependencies, prioritization suggestion, readiness, gaps – to achieve IKEAs business goals
· Actively follow and guiding business solutions improvements during transformations to the desired future state. Collaborating with business and IT stakeholders to ensure that agreed architecture, strategies, principles and recommendations are implemented
· Ensuring relevant enterprise and domain level architectures and architecture decisions, principles, rules and standards are incorporated into the roadmap and adhered to in the initiatives
Does this sound interesting? To be successful in this role you need to be:

· Deep understanding of the IKEA business – processes, organisation, principles and concepts
· Good understanding of the IKEA IT-landscape and Governance of IT at IKEA
· Good understanding of IKEA enterprise architecture framework and routines
· Good knowledge of Information Management framework
· Good knowledge of information modelling on different levels
· Strong analytical and conceptual thinking; design thinking
· Good knowledge to simplifying a complex reality into simple models
· Good understanding of project portfolio framework and routines.
· Awareness of internal and external business and technology trends that will impact the business and its environment
· Fluent in written and spoken English.

As a person, you aim to inspire and clarity; to communicate, inform, influence and actively listen and respond in an honest and straightforward way to inspire, motivate and convey the vision. You have the ability to move freely between different abstraction levels, across architecture aspects as well as from strategy to execution. You enable change, create a direction, plan manage and coach co-workers in understanding the why, moving from knowing to doing. You develop the business and delivery result, seeing the big picture as well as the details – both today and tomorrow. You are able to make strategic choices, as well as operational decisions to develop and drive our business to achieve the best possible results.

You show openness, willpower, drive and are challenged of working in a fast pace environment. You are a team player with a business mind and you know the importance of building a cross functional relationship with both internal partners and vendors. You are motivated by enabling business opportunities through IT Solutions. We believe that you are passionate about people and have a strong belief in individuals' potential. You would naturally reflect what IKEA stands for and the IKEA values, by way of leading business through people.

GROWING TOGETHER
IKEA offers an exciting and empowering work environment in a global marketplace. And as the world's leader at life a home, you have exceptional opportunities to grow and develop together with us. The position reports to an Architecture Team Leader at IKEA Retail Services AB, and is based at our office in Malmö (Hubhult).

If you have any questions about the actual recruitment process, please contact our Recruitment Specialist, Johanna Kelenc Fridlund at ************@*******.** or Maria Fröberg Larsson at ************@*******.** .

Please send your application in English and note that we do not accept applications by email.
Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidates. So don't delay, please send us your application as soon as possible, latest 29 February 2016. We respectfully decline contact from any ad or recruitment agencies.

If you want to be part of something big, this could be the right challenge for you. We are looking forward to getting to know you soon!

Welcome with your application!

IKEA Retail Services is the global support unit for IKEA Group Retailers, currently located on 28 markets worldwide. It is our responsibility to lead and develop common strategies as well as relevant business solutions to make IKEA more accessible, create growth and a great shopping experience across all channels.

Job ID

238193BR

Removal Date

29/02/2016