Teamleiter*in Verkauf Dekorations- und Pflanzenabteilung ab 1. September 2022

Job description

Who you are

As an inspirational team leader, you will manage a team and be responsible for creating an extraordinary shopping experience for our customers and driving sales and profitability results in your department.

• You have experience in leading, motivating and developing a team to reach excellent results.
• You are passionate about sales, are result-driven and have a strong customer-orientation.
• You know how to drive commercial performance in a retail setting by continuously optimizing and managing your sales space.
• You are a considerate decision-maker with strong analytical capabilities and prioritization skills.
• You speak the local language fluently and communicate well in English.

Your responsibilities

• Taking responsibility for your department’s sales goals, aligning your action plan country priorities and ensuring their implementation in your sales area.
• Steering the sales to your department’s top-selling products, prioritised products (e.g. overstock) and IKEA service products in order to maximise sales and long-term profitability.
• Making sure that your shop is in excellent condition, fully stocked w and the IKEA product range presented in ways that inspire the customers.
• Understanding and making the best commercial use of the various IKEA sales and communication channels to reach customers.
• Developing and coaching your team and its individual members.
• Managing your team and the staff plan to ensure that your sales area is sufficiently staffed to be available to serve customers and actively help them to buy.
• Promoting the IKEA social and environmental commitment and working with your team to understand how, together, you can contribute to sustainability.

What you need to know

At IKEA we pay fixed monthly salaries. That means that whether you are on holiday or take time off in lieu of overtime, your salary will be the same.

There are many ways to say, “thank you”. The benefits from IKEA are part of that and benefit you too!

Besides 15% staff-discount you benefit from 28 holidays (based on 100%), eight weeks paternal leave, four months maternal leave, contributions to public transport tickets or free on-site parking, full access to the LinkedIn Learning platform, discounted meals in the staff canteen, and the IKEA bonus system.

At IKEA you find endless opportunities to develop yourself. We support our co-workers, who are interested, to change teams or roles and to realise their ideas.

If you feel spoken to, click on “apply now” and let us know through your documents why you are motivated to fill this role. We look forward to hearing from you!

After a first selection we will contact you and – if we think there might be a match – discuss the next steps.

We continuously examine all applications and discontinue the hiring process as soon as we have found the right candidate. Therefore, please submit your application as soon as possible.

It is important that you are flexible in terms of working hours. Early or late shifts within our opening hours and Saturday assignments will be part of your working schedule.

Start Date: 1 September 2022