Can you really reach out to the whole world, while working in a tranquil idyll in the middle of forest? In Älmhult, Sweden, you can. Älmhult is home to IKEA Range & Supply that has the responsibility to develop, design, produce and supply IKEA retail channels with home furnishing solutions available for the many people. Each year IKEA Range & Supply introduces 2,000 new products around the world with a total range is almost 10,000 products. So what happens in Älmhult definitely doesn't stay in Älmhult. It reaches practically every corner of the globe.

IKEA is about making things better. All the way from the factory floors to the homes of the many people. We have a passion for renewing and improving things. This is part of our DNA. But how do we know what’s better or what to improve? By unleashing the full potential of data about and around of products, internal and external. It is about taking quicker and better decisions with facts as a base - going from a reactive way of working to a more proactive and prescriptive way of working - enabling people to focus on value adding tasks. We need to start somewhere as change is happening fast. Machine learning and other advanced analytics tools have a learning curve, the more we practice, the better we get. It’s about exploiting opportunities where we have data now and exploring areas where more data can be captured and drive value and where we need to build new capabilities. We are now concentrating resources in a central function for building up capabilities and competence within advanced analytics.

Come and join us as our Data Scientist in the Advanced analytics team assigned to work within Sales forecasting!

About the job
As Data Scientist, you will combine your knowledge of statistics and mathematics with your business understanding and some software development skills to create insights and predictions by processing data from several sources communicating the results to our stakeholders. In this role you will be part of a sales forecasting team, with the assignment to generate business insights and predictive and prescriptive analysis around global sales development and the meeting with the customer. You will report to Business Information Manager.

About the assignment
Your main responsibilities as Data Scientist for Sales forecasting are:
• Contribute in developing the sales forecasting capability in IKEA Range & Supply by exploring diverse sales drivers based on both internal and external data and building time series models for predicting future sales development.
• Perform exploratory and predictive analysis both individually and in a team by collaborating with other data scientists, analysts, Business navigators, BI-experts, data architects.

About you
We believe you are a team player with great interest and knowledge for data science. You have experience from building and applying statistical models, mainly time series, for coming to future projections and recommendations. Your good communication skills enables you to build relationships with your stakeholders and translate your analysis results to their reality. You are familiar with SQL and it is a merit with experience from cloud platforms and distributed data analysis and/or visualization tools.

In the role of Data Scientist we expect you to have:
• Previous experience from a similar role, preferably from a multinational supply chain or a retail organization
• Deep knowledge of statistical analysis, time series modeling and probabilistic modelling
• Programming skills in R or Python
• An academic degree in statistics, mathematics, econometrics, computer science or similar

Please send your application – CV and letter of motivation – in English by May 17th, 2019. We really want to get to know you, so make sure you tell us why you want to work as Data Scientist at IKEA Range&Supply and why you would be a good fit for this role. We are also curious in knowing; what is your passion in analytics.

The position is located in Älmhult, Sweden. Älmhult has excellent commuting possibilities with hourly trains to Malmö, Lund and Växjö and an IKEA shuttle bus back and forth to Helsingborg three times a day.