Goods Flow Manager, Taastrup

Job description

Who you are

To become one of us, you need to be yourself. You must also enjoy going the extra mile and working together with others. In addition, we hope that you:
• Have 3-5 years of experience in a logistics function
• Have 3 years or more experience in leading teams (leading leaders) and passion for developing people and reaching goals together – with proven strong results
• Have the ability to create relationships and common ground with people from different backgrounds
• Are both operational and strategical in your approach and able to prioritize and take part in operational tasks when needed
• Able to lead in change and structured and well planned in your actions
• Good knowledge of store fulfilment performance monitoring and influencing factors.
• Knowledge of all relevant standard operating procedures for Goods Flow to keep all co-workers and customers safe.
• Good knowledge of resource planning by potential sales scenarios, forecast, and fulfilment flows allocation.

Your responsibilities

In this role you will:
• Be accountable for leading the store goods flow team and work in collaboration with Sales and the store Commercial Team to secure the highest goods availability to enable customer order fulfilment at the lowest possible cost.
• Work closely together with the Logistics Manager and the Sales and Supply Support Manager to secure a living capacity plan and an effective, qualitative and efficient goods flow process.
• Contribute with relevant goods flow input and feedback to the local business plan and logistics action plan and ensure that these actions are implemented
• Responsible to secure close cooperation and strong communication with various transport planning departments in order to optimize the Inbound deliveries.
• Ensure development, execution and optimization of all goods flow operations ensuring the preconditions for a safe, effective and efficient goods flow process.
• Monitor Store KPIs and work strategically together with your team, the store commercial team and the sales and supply support team.
• Lead and develop a team of leaders and co-workers and secure a diverse, competent, and high performing team
• Live the IKEA values and nurture a strong and thriving IKEA culture that inspires colleagues to reach excellence in daily store fulfilment operations.

About this work area

In Logistics, we start the day early to prepare the store for opening. Some of the tasks require good physical health, and it’s important that you can take part in operational tasks if needed. If you have a forklift driver's license it’s a plus, but not a requirement.
We’re the team behind the scenes that make the IKEA products available to many people. As a diverse mix of co-workers, we use our supply process expertise to balance range and space capacity with forecasting and order to provide customers with high availability while minimizing costs. If you’ve wondered 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!

If you have any question regarding the position, please do not hesitate to contact Market Manager Jakub Michalec at jakub.michalec2@ingka.ikea.com.
If you have questions regarding the recruitment process you are welcome to contact Senior Recruiter Rikke Debois at rikke.debois@ingka.ikea.com.
Please note that we strictly receive applications through our recruitment system and any applications sent via email will be deleted.

OTHER INFORMATION

• The position is on average 37 hours per week on an individual contract. Overtime is reflected in the salary.
• Working hours is placed between 7AM to 9PM Monday to Sunday, and you should expect to work evenings and weekends as you are also part of the safety group for the store.
• Salary within IKEA’s salary policy based on your competencies and including pension.
• We have various benefits such as: Health insurance, massage, cantine, staff discount, discounts club with external partners, yearly gift, bonus etc.
• Start date 1st of October 2022
• Please apply no later 28.07.22. We have an ongoing interview process and reserve the right to close the job when we have received enough qualified candidates.

For this position, we do not have job mobility for moving to Denmark and you need Danish work permission.