Sustainability Analyst

Company Description

The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. A big mission which requires people with big passion. We strive to be the leader in sustainable, affordable life at home, inspiring and enabling customers to fulfil their needs and dreams at home. Come join us in this journey and let's make the world better together

Job Description

We are looking for Sustainability Analysts for Inter IKEA.

In Inter IKEA, we are ready to put in the next gear of moving IKEA and making us better together.

We are now looking for a Sustainability Analysts to help us define, develop, and maintain strategic commitments and goals that are connected to sustainability topics such as biodiversity, water, climate change, fair and equal, circular economy, waste, etc with a high impact on the IKEA business.

The role includes developing and ensuring the impact of strategic topics is measured and reported across the value chain and to support the identification of opportunities and gaps to reach our goals. You will be responsible for ensuring a holistic view of strategic topics and monitoring external global agreements, commitments, standards, and new legislations to secure the business and its license to operate.

To be successful in this role we believe that you are able to:

1. Responsible to measure, assess and analyse IKEAs environmental, social, and economic impact to identify opportunities to reduce the negative and enhance positive impacts.
2. Lead the development of content and data to secure sustainability reporting obligations are fulfilled such as CSRD, due diligence reporting etc.
3. Assess, implement, and influence the development of measurement methodologies to support strategic sustainability topics across IKEA's value chain.
4. Work closely with the Data and Technology team to integrate business requirements into our data products to meet internal and external reporting needs.
5. Safeguard the relevance of methodologies and performance frameworks by monitoring new standards, legislation, and best practices.
6. Ensure compliance and external assurance by documenting and controlling sustainability impact data.
7. Maintain and improve data products and solutions for sustainability impact data, and conduct strategic analysis on total IKEA value chain level.
8. Advise and build competence in sustainability and related functions in the business, and support development of solutions for performance follow-up and scenario analysis.
9. Lead and influence people through indirect leadership.

Qualifications

To be successful in the role,

1. We believe you have excellent analytical skills in data and complex systems.
2. You are a creative problem solver who sees data as both a solution and a tool.
3. You have strong knowledge and experience in sustainability topics, data analysis and modelling and performance follow-up and goal-setting within a complex company set-up.
4. You also have strong communication skills and knowledge of strategic sustainability topics and proven capability of working well in a team and with many different stakeholders.
5. Experience in external reporting standards e.g. CSRD, SBTN, TNFD and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol is seen as an advantage.

Additional information

Sounds interesting? Then why not apply?

Please submit your application by uploading your CV in Smart Recruiters latest by 31st March 2025 including your answers to these two questions:

1. What do you believe is your contribution to this position?
2. What values and strengths will come through in your everyday job?

Please keep your answers short and concise.