Business Navigator IKEA Dubai

IKEA currently looking for a Business Navigator in IKEA Dubai Festival City، Al Rebat Road, Dubai Festival City, Dubai, UAE, who will provide fact based leadership and proactive guidance on business priorities, support and challenge the organization in performance management, goal setting, budgeting and forecasting, provide and visualize action-oriented conclusions built on fact based analyses and business insights. This is an Intermediate level full time job. And salary can range between 10000-20000 AED/month.

Responsibilities of Business Navigator

• Perform first level of business analysis to identify trends, opportunities, and potential risks, and present them in a clear and actionable manner.
• Identify and act on potentials for business performance, improvements, and costs development.
• Develop and update the Risk Register and proactively define mitigation actions together with risk owners in the business.
• Manage costs, forecast results, and drive organizational efficiency.
• Develop tools and working methods related to Business Navigation.
• Challenge and support the operations with simulations, scenarios, and forecasts.
• Responsible for the input to pricing process.
• Enable business development and innovation by being an active partner in business planning. Contribute to the Action Planning and goal setting process.
• Lead business performance management, lead the translation of business plans into goals, secure relevant performance reporting and follow-up and lead fact-based decision making.
• Secure overall implementation and compliance to processes and ways of working by securing governance structure, deviations handling, meeting calendar and year cycle in the unit.
• Lead local project portfolio management, to ensure right priorities in relation to business plan ambitions and balanced resource planning.
• Responsible for communicating business results and goal achievement in a clear and inspiring way and contributing to competence development of the whole unit within overall business understanding.
• In the matrix, contribute to the development of working methods and tools and share best practice.

Requirements for Role of Business Navigator

• A bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in business development, consulting, or a related field.

Skills And Knowledge Desired

• Good knowledge of IKEA Supply Chain and specific processes.
• Good process / project and indirect leadership skills.
• Knowledge of IKEA Business Planning and Action planning process.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
• Fluent in English.
• Able to critically analyze information and systems.
• Able to strategically plan complex organizational & functional interactions.
• Ability to manage multiple and changing processes and priorities.
• Able to coordinate multiple and conflicting demands.
• Organized and detail oriented.
• Ability to work with ambiguity and try novel solutions to existing or unfamiliar problems.
• Must have the ability to understand, design, & coordinate the implementation of new processes and systems.
• Able to interact effectively across functions and cultures.

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