Pricing Specialist

WHY WE WILL LOVE YOU
If you are passionate about sales, pricing and analytical tasks and have gained experience within this field, the position as Pricing Specialist might be your next challenge. Here you will get the opportunity to improve the development and execution of the pricing year cycle and continuously develop the pricing tools.
As a person, we believe that you get energized by driving business growth and contributing to overall success of IKEA. In an inspirational way and with the IKEA tone of voice you have the ability to collaborate, co-create and build trustful relationships. You get motivated by finding new ways of working through co-creation with colleagues and other IKEA units and have excellent communication- and interpersonal skills. We do also believe that you demonstrate strong analytical skills and know how to visualize data and make impactful presentations. With speed and simplicity, you have the ability to prioritize and make decisions.
To succeed in this role, you have been working with Sales, Commercial Planning and especially Pricing for a minimum of 5 years at IKEA, preferably within the home furnishing-, service- or food sector. You have a proven record in planning, driving output and measuring business performance and a deep knowledge of data analytics, the pricing year cycle, competitor monitoring, price elasticity and affinity. Capabilities in Cognos, QlikView, PowerBI, Gadd and SLM are also preferred. Furthermore, you have knowledge about:
The IKEA concept, brand objectives, values and vision
The IKEA pricing tools, processes and year cycles
Range dimensioning and sales planning processes and tools
IKEA supply chain and impact of (in)accurate planning
How consumer acts, feels and behaves in a retail environment



YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Pricing Specialist, you will manage and continuously improve the development and execution of the pricing year cycle. You will develop the pricing tools and deliver pricing learning solutions and ways of working to our markets. Furthermore, you will:
Organize alignment to other core processes, such as sales and supply planning, range dimensioning and financial business planning for our complete commercial offer (Home Furnishing range, Services and IKEA food)
Co-create and implement the learning solutions for competitor monitoring in all markets and provide user support throughout the year cycle
Be responsible for in-depth analysis and follow up of multichannel pricing performance, competitor monitoring and provide insights for future improvement of the pricing process and ultimately the sales and margin results
Lead and contribute to the development of new tools, templates, learning solutions etc.
Contribute to the development of the yearly Ingka Pricing Strategy
Provide and share expertise on pricing in a clear and inspiring way to enable constant improvement learning with and between markets

This role is based in Malmö and you will report to the Pricing Leader.
ABOUT THIS WORK AREA
The mission for Market Support is to enable extraordinary growth by supporting the markets in a new era of meeting the customer. We will empower the markets to realize a simple, unique, and seamless meeting. We will provide our markets with economy of scale and exceptional quality in common solutions for all. We will organize for efficiency and effectiveness.
QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT? LET'S CONNECT!
If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please feel free to contact Caroline Årzén, caroline.arzen@ingka.ikea.com. We look forward receiving your application as soon as possible. Please note that we will be reviewing applications on a continuous basis.