Consumer & Market Analyst

Company description

A Smile, Common Sense, Passion for home furnishing, and Leadership; that's what we need in IKEA Al-Homaizi Kuwait - a company that believes in developing business through our Co-Workers.

Our energy comes from creating a better everyday life for the many people.

We simply recruit based on Values, Competence, Potential for growth, and Diversity.

To establish the IKEA Brand as the preferred choice in homefurnishing products and solutions that create a bettereveryday life for the many people, thereby reaching the IKEAbusiness objectives.

This shall occur by:

• stimulating home furnishing interest in each localmarket
• securing a strong brand and competitive position in eachlocal market
• driving traffic to the IKEA store and IKEA website byattracting new and more visitors to visit more often, andthroughout their life stages.

Key Assignments of the function:

• Contribute to IKEA by helping people to make well founded decisions, based on reliable, actionable, and timelyinsights.
• Provide consumer and market insights to contribute to IKEA's direction, strategies, and plans.
• Source, manage, and share all consumer and market data in the most efficient, reliable, and timely manner.

Responsibilities:

• Obtain and Secure updated and timely information, data, and insights about the local, regional, and global marketsand consumers through both internal and external sources.
• Drive strategic analysis of the research findings and KPIs by leveraging consumer insights. In co-operation withkey stakeholders ensure that conclusions are understood and used. Build insightful future scenarios with a mainfocus on the market, competitors, consumers, and customers.
• Lead the dialogue and cooperation among all stakeholders (internal and external) who contribute to researchresults, metrics, and data. These include media agencies and suppliers of standard research such as ConsumerTracker, web/social analytics, etc.
• Provide support for competence and accessibility to the market intelligence information/insights within theorganization (e.g. service office functions and store managers).
• Plan, create, develop, and maintain a process of market monitoring and reports generating in respect to social,local, and demographic trends, and local and regional economies for each market.
• Present professional recommendations based on findings from the monitoring process and IKEA strategy.
• Identify opportunities due to changes in the market
• Identify, follow, and monitor trends, global, regional, or local, not only connected to the Home Furnishing or Retailmarkets, but connected to people. Understanding the impact these trends can have on people behaviors andaspirations

Motivation:

• Be driven and result-oriented to improve performance.
• Make analysis meaningful for people within the business to improve decision making.
• Proactively challenge and inspire the business to see new opportunities.
• Be passionate about understanding consumer behavior, people’s lives at home, and the future, and continuouslybuild your own knowledge base.
• Consumer-centric.

Job-specific capabilities:

• Ability to generate insights that are clear, focused and easily usable.
• Numeric and qualitative analytical skills.
• Impactful presentation and communication skills.
• Seeing the big picture (i.e. modeling and conceptual thinking).
• Project management skills.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Exceptional analytical, communication and presentation skills along with the ability to effectively influence viacross-functional partnerships, collaborations, and relationship building.
• Ability to comfortably communicate with and present to senior management team members.
• 5+ years experience in research. In retail, it would be a plus.
• Proficiency with large datasets and data tools (e.g., CRM, social listening tools)
• Track record of synthesizing inputs, drawing insights, and communicating to appropriate stakeholders throughout the company
• Experience working successfully within a matrixed organization.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a team or teams, working in multiple projects simultaneously
• Bachelor's degree in Economics, BA, or Sociology may be a plus
• Experience in a similar role is a plus. Ie: Market Analyst in a bank, consulting, or research company.

A few more details for you
This position is full-timeand is located in Kuwait. Some travel may be required.

Please send your CVin English and tell us why you would be a good fit for this role.