Sales Team Leader

Who you are
- 3+ years of professional experience in sales
- 2+ years of experience in Leadership roles
- Ability to make things happen, to make action plans, to identify 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
- Good leadership capabilities including ability to lead peers and stakeholders while communicating in an inspirational way with IKEA tone of voice
- 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
- Good knowledge of Sales techniques, local market and services, Sales Steering, Sales channels, Cycles, Data Analytics and Sales KPIs, Sales Location Management/Space Capacity and articles forecasting
- Ability to speak fluent in Italian and English

**Your responsibilities**
- Take responsibility for your department goals in every channels and secure that your action plan ensures the country priorities for your Home Furnishing Business (HFB) are implemented in your store. 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 and your matrix in HQ to have an effective collaboration between the store and the HQ, 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

**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

Location: IKEA Genova, via Luigi Perini

Opportunity: Full-time permanent contract, bonus & other benefits