In short
Lead the planning of retail spaces, commercial layouts, and sales solutions for country expansion projects, ensuring local relevance and maximizing growth. This role requires a strong understanding of retail processes, project management, and customer needs to create inspirational and profitable solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning of retail spaces, commercial layouts, home furnishing, and sales solutions, including Food, according to global guidelines.
- Maximize growth, optimize profitability, and secure inspirational solutions.
- Build competence within planning, improve ways of working, and share learnings.
- Provide support and inspiration to strengthen the IKEA identity and guide the use of global tools.
- Handle rough/fine planning, budgets, capacity, and resources in expansion projects.
- Ensure local relevance, market/project requirements, strong commerciality, and outstanding customer experience.
- Develop and create range presentation solutions reflecting variety of styles, price levels, and life at home activities.
- Take a leading role within the project team and act as a speaking partner towards global key stakeholders.
- Secure integration, maximized impact, high level of inspiration, and understanding about people's life at home.
- Apply directions/priorities from global business owners.
- Deliver local expansion projects within expected quality, time, and budget, focused on low cost.
- Stay at the forefront of new solutions and contribute to the development of business opportunities.
Requirements
- Knowledge of Retail Establishment Process.
- Knowledge of how to execute a cross-functional project.
- Knowledge of trends that influence home furnishing, retail design, and communication.
- Knowledge about customers' living situations in different areas around the world and their needs in everyday life at home.
- Knowledge of methods for presenting the range and service range using store media, display techniques, and store layout as commercial tools.
- Knowledge of how to steer the customer to relevant products or services.
- Knowledge of the IKEA visual and verbal identity (tone of voice).
- Knowledge of the IKEA concept, brand objectives, values, and vision.
- Knowledge of how to create and implement change initiatives and manage stakeholders in IKEA.
- Knowledge of the IKEA omnichannel shopping experience.
Benefits
- The opportunity to work within the IKEA Concept, which helps millions of customers create a better everyday life.
#Sales#Commercial#Retail#Planning#Expansion
Company
IKEA
Job Posted
19 hours ago
Employment Type
Full Time
WorkMode
On Site
Experience Level
Mid-Senior
Locations
Shanghai, China
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