Team Manager - Data Science

• Driving continuous improvement, collaboration, and knowledge sharing of methodologies, tools and materials across the IKEA Data Analytics community
• Collaborating and communicating with other parts of the organization to understand the needs of stakeholders and devise possible solutions
• Ensuring consistency by supporting the use of relevant development techniques, digital frameworks, and best practices
• Being responsible for making sure that the insights and conclusions from data science are easily available to other parts of the organization
• Supporting a culture of data-driven decision making across IKEA organizations
• Working closely together with data scientists, data engineers, architects, analysts, peers, and other relevant roles across IKEA as well as in your team
• Keeping up to date with the latest technological trends
• Assuring quality and contribute to development and testing of deliverables.

• Expertise and passion in understanding business problems and applying Data & Analytics to try and solve them
• Direct or indirect management experience - leading people to perform and deliver, continuously work with competence development, recruitment, and proactive succession within the area of responsibility
• Capability to effectively lead and manage Core Business Range team of Data Scientists
• Experience in developing data and statistics-driven solutions for real-life business problems
• Ability to clearly communicate statistical and machine learning concepts to non-technical audience
• Ability to act as Core Business Range point of contact and escalation within the IKEA Data Science community
• Ability to provide technical leadership for Data Scientists in the organization, fostering a culture of support and collaboration in the team and across the Data & Analytics organization.

• Proven track record in preparing and enabling the implementation of common ways of working, tools and competence in the business
• Strong capability in delivering to Organization strategies and goals
• Well-versed in budgeting process by preparing initiated input on need of resources, development and investment or service needs
• Experience working in an agile set-up
• Ability to enable preconditions for the team to perform their assignment according to our IKEA values and set business priorities.

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