Business Navigation Manager, IKEA Klang Valley
Are you ready to be at the heart of steering business performance and shaping the future of IKEA?
As a Business Navigation Manager, you play a critical role in driving growth, profitability, and long-term sustainability of the business. You will act as a strategic business partner, connecting insights, data, and commercial priorities to guide decision-making across the organisation.
This is a highly dynamic and influential role where you will navigate complexity, challenge the business, and drive transformation while leading and developing a high-performing team.
What You’ll Do?
- Partner closely with the Store Manager to shape and drive the Market Business Plan, aligned with IKEA direction and local opportunities
- Lead financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting to ensure sustainable growth and profitability
- Drive performance follow-up, ensuring teams stay focused on goals and take action on deviations
- Translate business strategies into clear financial insights and impactful decisions
- Lead scenario planning to enable fast, data-driven responses in a changing environment
- Analyse investments, costs, and business opportunities to ensure strong return on investment
- Deliver actionable insights through reports, performance analysis, and collaboration with data teams
- Identify growth opportunities and efficiency improvements, leveraging benchmarking and digital tools
- Drive a cost-conscious and performance-driven culture across the market
- Lead, coach, and develop the Business Navigation team while building capabilities across functions
Why This Role is Exciting?
This role is not just about numbers-it’s about influencing the direction of the business.
You will:
- Work at the intersection of strategy, finance, and operations
- Challenge and guide leaders across the organisation
- Drive transformation and continuous improvement
- Navigate complex, fast-moving business environments
- Build strong partnerships and influence key decisions
You thrive when you:
- Turn data into meaningful business actions
- Influence decisions and challenge the status quo
- Work in complex, fast-changing environments
- Lead people and grow future talents
- Connect big-picture strategy with daily operations
Experience & Knowledge
- Strong commercial and financial acumen with a cross-functional understanding of business
- Deep understanding of sales performance, profitability, and value chain optimisation
- Experience in financial planning, forecasting, and performance management
- Knowledge of data analytics, digital tools, and business insights
- Familiarity with project management and business transformation initiatives
- Strong understanding of IKEA business tools, processes, and ways of working
Capabilities
- Strategic leadership: Ability to translate strategy into actionable plans and results
- Business partnering: Strong ability to connect financial insights with business needs
- Analytical thinking: Confident in making data-driven decisions in complex situations
- Influencing & communication: Ability to inspire, challenge, and align stakeholders
- Change leadership: Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving transformation
- People development: Proven ability to lead, coach, and build high-performing teams
- Networking: Strong relationship builder across functions and markets
If you are ready to lead, challenge, and navigate the business forward - this is your opportunity. Apply now!
Please submit your application before 20 July 2026. Kindly note that the application may close earlier, and early submissions will be given priority.