Goods Flow Manager, IKEA Älmhult

WHO YOU ARE
The store in Älmhult is a unique store within the IKEA world. By being the first IKEA store in the world and located in the heart of IKEA, it has both great history and a strong culture. Together with all the home furnishing competence located in Älmhult, the store will focus on “the product range is our identity” and take the lead in taking IKEA's know-how in our range and providing solutions visualizing all aspects of the democratic design.
We are now looking for a Goods Flow Manager to join us at IKEA Älmhult. It is not a requirement that you have earlier experience within a Logistic function. What is foremost important for us is that you are someone that are genuinely driven and motivated to learn and understand logistics impact on our customers shopping experience.
We want you to thrive at a high pace with varying tasks. You make things happen in a structured way through flexibility, speed and simplicity. When it comes to leadership approach, you are focusing on building trust and long-term relationships. You are passionate about leading, developing and coaching employees. As a team you will create a work environment that is characterized by IKEA's culture and values through openness, joy and togetherness.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
Your main responsibilities will be to lead and optimize your team in order to achieve department goal. In your role as Goods Flow Manager, you will have responsibility for 10-15 coworkers.
By ensuring that the availability of our range is as accurate as possible and maintains high quality you and your team will contribute to excellent customer meetings in all sales channels. With a transparent and clear communication, you make sure that existing processes are followed and improved. Through present leadership and a focus on clear communication and responsiveness, you aim to create good teamwork.
This position involves approximately 80% administration and coaching of employees. The remaining time you will be taking part of the operative agenda to get a good picture of how you can best support your employees in their daily work.
TOGETHER AS A TEAM
We’re the team behind the scenes that make the IKEA products available to the many people. As a diverse mix of co-workers, we use our supply process expertise to balance range and space capacity with forecasting and ordering to provide customers with high availability while minimizing costs. If you’ve wonder who’s responsible for finding effective and efficient ways of picking up the products for our customers, that’s us. We’re passionate about working together to improve the customer experience at IKEA!
QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT? LET'S CONNECT!
This role is a permanent, fulltime opening with preferable start date as soon as possible. Last day to apply is 2/1.
If you have questions regarding the recruitment, process or struggle to apply don’t hesitate to contact responsible recruiter Susanna Kanold at susanna.kanold@ingka.ikea.com