Assistant Department Manager

**Job ID**: 273769

**Date posted**: 24/02/2025

**What you'll be doing day to day**
- Take responsibility for your department goals in every channels and secure that your action plan ensures the country priorities.
- Follow up and act accordingly by using proven solutions and good examples.
- Ensure the shop is in excellent shape as new and always fully and efficiently stocked and that the IKEA product range is presented in ways that inspire and satisfy customers in every touch points.
- Be brave on commercial opportunities or threats to face a fast-changing business environment by monitoring the main KPIs, evaluating relevant input from your local market, investigating local customer needs and their feedbacks in all the channels, and analyzing stock availability.
- Be an active speaking partner with your Store Commercial Team, Other STOREs and the central team by keeping an active eye on the competition and sharing best practices and prove solutions.
- Proactively work with HR department to have the right number of competent colleagues in the right place at the right time securing that they are fully able and available to guarantee the best customer experience to our visitors, to plan and offer a professional service with a core area approach in mind.
- Ensure your team has the right growth mindset and sales attitude, the correct knowledge about the product range in your department, and the IKEA services so that they can share this with IKEA customers to exceed their overall expectations on shopping experience.
- Recruit, onboard & develop your team, its individual members, and their talent to have engaged colleague and ensure a succession planning.
- Be an active player in working on sustainability initiatives with the team through ensuring sustainability priorities are reflected across store offering.

**What you'll need to have**
- Proven experience in Sales.
- Knowledge of Sales techniques, local market and services, Sales Steering, Sales channels, Cycles, Data Analytics and Sales KPIs, P&L.
- Ability to make things happen, priorities and make decisions by championing flexibility, speed, and simplicity.
- A considered decision-maker thanks to strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build trustful relationships.
- Ability to organize and prioritize different tasks and processes.
- Ability to identify business opportunities and to create a high commercial performance.
- Ability to follow up and measure performance of output and capture learnings to improve planning and performance moving forward.
- Ability to speak fluent in Italian and English.

**Together as a team**
We are the ones meeting our customers - in our stores, online, in our catalogue and beyond. We have knowledge of the IKEA product range, local markets and customer needs and we constantly find new ways of making real connections with our customers to maximize sales and profitability. Together with thousands of colleagues around the world we’re a diverse team working for the continued global success of the IKEA Concept - a concept that helps millions of customers create a better everyday life

WORKING WITH US HAS ITS REWARDS
Being part of the IKEA team has many benefits. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture, driven by values and your growth will be guided by structured HR processes.
As part of the team you’ll have access to:

- Structured HR processes to support you in your growth (onboarding, training, coaching sessions, internal recruitment opportunities, etc)
- Wellbeing Offering, including an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that provides you with immediate and confidential support for any concerns related to your daily life.
- Healthy and affordable food: you will have access to a corporate canteen and will be able to enjoy a complete meal for just over 1€
- Employee discount: 15% on the purchase of IKEA products for personal use
- IKEA Vouchers for the most important moments in your life (marriage, cohabitation, birth or adoption of a child)
- Corporate discounts: you’ll have access to portal dedicated to our co-workers to enjoy discounts for different activities such as travel, leisure, technology and more
- Bonuses: we believe that everyone's contribution is needed to achieve (and exceed) our goals. Every year all the co-workers can be rewarded for how we develop our business together

WE CARE FOR PEOPLE