Assistant to Sales Channel Manager

Assistant to Sales Channel Manager
Retail Services AB, Helsingborg

ASSISTANT
The Assistant position is a role on project basis for 12 to maximum 18 months. To succeed in this role you need to have several years of IKEA experience.

As Management Assistant you will support the Sales Channel Manager and Deputy Global Retail Manager at Retail Services in Helsingborg / Sweden. Your tasks will be very hands on and operational but also complex, challenging and in need of development. The supportive role consist of tasks such as composing and researching correspondence, high quality presentation preparation, drafting meeting notes, travel and meeting arrangements, calendar management and information compilation and distribution but also act as ?right hand?.

IS THIS YOUR NEXT CHALLENGE?
To be successful in your role we believe that you:
· Are in the beginning of your IKEA-career as a good/high performer and with high potentiality.
· Have experience working under the pressure of competing and sometimes conflicting priorities.
· Are superior verbal and written English communication skills, to effectively communicate with all levels of the organisation.
· Are highly proficient in Microsoft Applications.
· Have ambition to further progress within the IKEA organisation.
· Have excellent English language skills, preferably even more languages.

We believe that you have/are:
· Strong attention to detail and highly organised.
· Capability to quickly gather, analyze and process information.
· Able to meet multiple deadlines at same time.
· Team player and motivated self-starter.
· Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment.
· Excellent problem solving abilities.
· Proactive; find and suggest ways to improve services, processes and projects.
· Excellent time management skills.
· Flexible and adaptable to change.
· Excellent presentation creation skills.
· Project management skills.
· Mobile, also on long term basis (next step).

WHAT WE OFFER
At IKEA you have the chance to do what you?re good at. There is plenty of room for enterprise and good ideas within the IKEA concept and if you want to develop further, the opportunities are there. You therefore also continue to grow yourself, for example through coaching, internal courses or our excellent ?everyday university?.

Conditions for employment
The assignment is scheduled to last for 12 to 18 months and it will take 100% of your time. You will be a part of Sales Channel IKEA Retail Services AB.

For this position we alreade have a very strong candidate!

If you are one of the candidates we would like to interview, we will contact you by phone. As recruitment processes in some cases takes time, we kindly ask you for your patience. If you have any other questions about the recruitment process, please contact our HR Service Centre, +46 (0)476-587500.