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.
Do you think this would work for you?
We mentioned ealier that we want our employees to be happy and healthy.It also means saying 'thank you'!
Our way of saying thank you:
• 28 vacation days (based on a 100% workload)
• 8 weeks paid parental leave for fathers; 20 weeks paid parental leave for mothers
• Very attractive social benefits
• 15% staff discount on your purchase - in every Swiss IKEA store
• You would rather travel to work by public transport? We pay between 85% and 100% of your yearly travel ticket
• Free parking facilities
• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn learning platform
• Affordable and healthy meals in our staff canteen (CHF 4.50 for meat dishes and CHF 3.50 for veggie dishes)
• Bonus payments for all employees
There are many opportunities for career development at IKEA. We encourage and support our employees to try out different roles, move between functions or even go abroad. Please submit your full application online via our website, please note however that we cannot consider applications and documents sent by email or post.
That's it from us.
That was a lot of information. We'd love to find out more about you. Just click on 'Apply now' and off you go.
We review applications on an ongoing basis and may stop the application process as soon as we have found the right person. So please apply as soon as possible.