IT Strategy Analyst (f/m/d), Lisbon Lisboa

IT Strategy Analyst (f/m/d), Lisbon
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Our Team, IT Strategy and Digital Initiatives, is looking for an IT Strategy Analyst.

We are looking for someone passionate about bringing together business and new technologies to unlock the value they can bring – supporting innovation, entrepreneurship, and value for all our customers and consumers. The diversity of tasks and stakeholders requires proactivity, independence, leadership, curiosity and will give the opportunity to contribute to a large range of strategic initiatives in the group.

This position is preferably located in Munich, Germany or alternatively one of our European offices such as Gothenburg, Lisbon, Hamburg, and Barcelona, joining the IT Strategy and Digital Initiatives team and working closely with the VP IT Strategy and Business Technology.

We're looking for people who embody our values, aren't afraid to challenge, innovate, experiment, and move at a fast pace. If this is you, we'd love to talk.

As a key member of the IT Strategy team, you will interact with all levels of IT and key business stakeholders to help shape and deliver an IT Strategy that is aligned to business outcomes, positioning Essity to maximize value from available technologies and make a real difference.

What You Will Do

1. You will interact with all levels of IT and key business stakeholders to help shape and deliver an IT Strategy that aligns with business outcomes.
2. Oversee a portfolio of IT initiatives, both business and IT-led, that help to move the business forward.
3. Understand the business value chain, monitor and report where improvements are needed and how they can be realized.
4. Participate in strategic initiatives covering both business and IT.

In particular, Essity sees sustainability, both for people and the planet, as a critical part of our objectives. IT plays a key role in enabling this for the broader business while ensuring an IT function that delivers in its own right.

Who You Are

1. Passionate and
   - driven.
2. Good balance of both business understanding and technology skills.
3. Able to deal well with ambiguity.
4. Solid analytical thinking and data literacy.
5. Strong organizational and project management skills.
6. Strong communication skills – especially towards senior stakeholders.
7. Diplomacy and ability to build trust with stakeholders inside and outside IT.
8. Demonstrated ability to perform in a team with dynamic responsibilities.
9. Strategic-thinking skills.
10. Available for travel.

Background

1. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (IT or Business focused).
2. 3+ years working experience in IT or business functions.
3. Proven project delivery experience, especially in a dynamic and evolving environment.
4. Hands-on understanding of data analytics.

Interested?

If you feel motivated by the challenge and ready to take the opportunity to grow, even if you do not fully meet every requirement, we would like to hear from you.

What We Can Offer You

At Essity, we believe everyone's learning and professional development is unique and want to empower employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose.

Our diversity makes us strong and creates an inclusive, inviting and harmonious workplace where individuality is appreciated by everyone. For this reason, incoming applications are selected based on professional qualifications and working values regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual identity, nationality, disability or age.

Collaborative and Inclusive Culture | Empowering & Engaged Leaders | Working with Powerful Purpose & Sustainable Impact | Learning and Growing in your Career | Supporting Well-being & Sustainable Working Life | Life-changing Innovations | Competitive Total rewards.

Together, we are improving lives, every day.

Working at Essity is not just a career; it is a chance to directly make the world a healthier, more hygienic and safer place. With impactful innovations coupled with sustainable solutions, we strive to reach more people every year with the necessary and essential solutions for
- being.