Data Analyst

Job Description

Hej Data Analyst,

Do you want to furnish the future with innovative solutions?

With us, you can feel at home in your work while sharing that feeling with millions of people around the world. We encourage you to stand up for yourself and others, creating an environment where everyone feels welcome. We invite you to open new doors, discover new tech possibilites, embrace mistakes, and grow from them. As our Data Analyst, you’ll have many opportunities to try things you’ve never done before.

Inter IKEA Group connects IKEA franchisees with range development and suppliers and ensures alignment of the overall IKEA strategic direction. Every day, we strive to develop, produce, and sell products and services that are affordable and accessible to everyone. 

This role is positioned in Core Business Range. You will belong to the Data & Analytics team, reporting to the Team Manager. We are enabling data democratization through scalable self-service capabilities and AI enablement, while ensuring high-quality, timely, and cost-efficient data solutions that support IIG in making more informed and effective business decisions. 

Our team is based in Älmhult. We believe that your presence with the team and working the majority of the time in the workplace is important. 

 

Your new job

As a Data Analyst, you’ll play an important part in the team and bring valuable IKEA knowledge into a new setting. The Data Analyst function supports the transformation of IKEA into a more data-driven company by extracting and sharing deep insights from complex internal and external data sources. It enables cross-functional data product teams to make evidence-based decisions through advanced data exploration, analysis, visualization, performance measurement, and hypothesis testing, ultimately improving business performance and delivering a better customer experience. The impact of our work continues to resonate in homes and hearts across the world. 

On a typical working day, you will: 

• Lead, grow, and develop a central team of Data Analysts, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.  
• Ensure and promote data-informed decision-making to improve business performance, working within cross-functional data product teams.  
• Ensure solutions continuously deliver value to Inter IKEA Group by working closely with stakeholders across different functions and adapting to evolving business needs.  
• Evaluate the usability and potential of structured internal and external data sources for product analytics and data-driven decision-making.  
• Write complex SQL queries to extract, transform, and load data as part of robust data processing pipelines, using joins, nesting, and advanced operations.  
• Conduct advanced data exploration and analysis using modern data mining techniques (including machine learning) and visualization tools to generate actionable insights. 

 

Qualifications

What we’d like you to bring to the table 

The role as a Data Analyst requires you to have:  

• Expertise in building scalable analytics and insight products (e.g., Power BI), with a good ability to translate business needs into actionable data solutions and storytelling-driven dashboards.  
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python, including use of notebook environments to analyze data, share insights, and enable reproducible analytics workflows.  
• Strong understanding of data mining techniques and data exploration across large datasets to support decision-making and uncover business opportunities.  
• Solid foundation in probability and statistics, including hypothesis testing and experimental design (e.g., A/B testing) to validate business hypotheses.  
• Experience with data engineering concepts and end-to-end data pipelines, with the ability to understand the full lifecycle from raw data sources to business insight.  
• Familiarity with collaborative software engineering practices (Agile, DevOps) and data product development principles focused on iterative delivery and continuous improvement. 

It’s a plus if you also: 

• Have experience building analytics or insight products at scale 
• Have experience working with hypothesis testing, A/B testing or performance measurement 

 

Additional Information

We welcome your application 

Get ready to assemble something new! We look forward to receiving your application by 27th of August at the latest. If you have any questions about the role or the recruitment process, or if you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process, feel free to contact the Recruiter  or Hiring Manager Bidyut Bora, . 

This team is located in Älmhult, Sweden.

At IKEA, we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. You’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. We believe that people’s different perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities make us better at understanding our customers dreams and needs.

We always recruit based on values, competence, potential and diversity. We will first consider co-workers employed at Inter IKEA Group impacted by organisational changes. For this specific recruitment priority will be given to impacted co-workers in Core Business Range and Inter IKEA Technology Services AB provided competence requirements are met for the role.