Planning Specialist (Shop Design)

Who you are:
We are looking for someone who is passionate about creating the future of IKEA! If you get energized by driving business growth and contributing to the overall success and results through collaboration – this might be the perfect opportunity for you!
To be successful in this role, we believe you have:
• minimum 5 years working with home furnishing and retail design solution development and extended knowledge about how to contribute to quality requirements/standards in the planning process
• Knowledge of the Retail Establishment Process
• Experience in home furnishing the IKEA way (living situations, style groups, store communication, furnishing with light)
• Knowledge how to strengthen the uniqueness of the IKEA identity in range presentation and throughout the layout
• An understanding of the trends that influence home furnishing, retail design, and communication
• Insight into customers' living situations in different areas around the world and customer shopping and buying behavior in a multichannel retail landscape
• Methods for optimization of commercial square meters, and for presenting the range using store media and store layout as commercial tools
• Preferred knowledge of Revit
Responsibilities:
As a Planning Specialist you will secure that deliverables for new Customer Meeting Points are documented and ready to be used for implementation in market organizations based on set requirements. ​Proactively work with developing working process and competence to support efficient quality assurance. You will secure planning of CMPs that present the range in a vital, inspiring way fitting the many's needs and enabling access to the whole range in the multichannel retail world of IKEA.
More specifically, you will:
Contribute setting quality requirements/standards
Secure efficient way of working, for securing quality checks throughout the planning process​
Closely collaborate with superusers, functional leaders and overview planners to improve and implement learnings from projects delivered.​
Coach and support planning specialist during planning and secure feedback and learnings from projects are shared.​
Coach quality team in projects (planning specialist) performing quality checks.​
Conduct final quality review of detailed drawings before handover with focus on carpentry, electrics, measurements
Secure actions are taken based on learnings to continuously improve and simplify process.​
Secure deliverables are documented and ready to be used for implementation in market organizations based on set requirements.​
Together with Planning team leader secure timely quality checks based on overall project timeline.​
Proactively transfer of knowhow to planning specialist.​
Constantly communicate status and progress with a clear focus on Low cost expansion.