Total 3 job vacancies by Ikano-Retail

About the job

As a member of the Business Navigation team, you play a key role in securing timely posting of the schedules that delivers to the needs of the store. You also seek and coordinate business opportunities through optimised staff planning focused on our people, customer and business needs.

Your assignment

• You are responsible for managing the store’s staff planning process from forecasting to planning and execution of timely staff planning schedules to ensure that scheduling complies with all labour regulations and internal guidelines.

• You will support department managers in the development, adaptation and improvement of schedules to ensure that they are within the forecasted hours with updated co-worker availability and skill levels.

• You collaborate closely with internal stakeholders to identify areas for improvement within the store’s planning processes.

• You provide staff planning expertise, support and training of end-users in optimising co-workers’ scheduling.

• You are responsible for tracking the performance of the scheduling process through regular monitoring of staff planning KPIs by producing schedule-related reports and daily review of real-time scheduling adherence.

• You will support administrative duties associated with schedule creation and timecard management.

Your profile

• At least 3 years of relevant work experience in a similar capacity within a customer-oriented service industry.

• Proven analytical skills, with experience in staff planning, budgeting, and forecasting.

• Good understanding of key business drivers, leveraging this knowledge to contribute to achieving business objectives.

• Process-oriented and results-driven, with the ability to analyse large volumes of data.

• Meticulous and detailed with ability to work under tight deadlines and able to pivot priorities effectively to align with changing business needs.

• Strong follow-up skills with a sense of urgency, ensuring that tasks are completed on time.

• Possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration with business partners to align staffing and scheduling with operational needs.

• Strong IT proficiency, including intermediate skills in MS Excel, PowerPoint, and report generation, to support data analysis and decision-making.

• Able to commit to shift work, weekends and public holidays.

About the job
We want to fill this position with a proactive enthusiast who can support the growth of IKEA through development of tools, solutions, and planning models to develop business performance management capabilities, together with the team.

Your assignment

• To analyse, design, develop, maintain, and administer integrated plans and models, within and including the integrated planning solutions and tools, including preparation of technical documentation, user guides and training materials.
• To answer queries from end users relating to the integrated planning tool and models.
• To support the Business Navigation team in the capture, delivery, and prioritisation of planning, forecasting and simulation needs.
• To support with the driving of an integrated planning culture across the business, through use of this single source of truth on budgets, forecasts and plans for streamlining simulations, business steering, follow ups and management reports.
• Support on financial and commercial analytics or other relevant topics and analysis.

Your profile

• Experience with developing Planning Analytics / TM1 or similar OLAP / Functional databases solutions, broad understanding of data analytics, having worked for any part of the analytics cycle, with at least 3 years’ experience.
• Fundamental understanding of financial concepts and the core purpose of integrated planning across functions including designing data capture templates and workflows.
• Exposure to working on various planning models in financial, retail, logistics, human resources, as well as fundamental understanding of digital technology and computer science concepts would be an added advantage.
• Strong interest and passion in business navigation & analytics, with a hint of love for IKEA and Home Furnishing and our culture and values.

About the job

Together with the team, you will support and navigate the growth of IKEA and steer the business towards sustained long term profitability, including securing financial business performance and compliance with policies and standards.

Your Assignment

• To lead the store Business Plan process together with the Steering Team and proactively work with local market data to understand people’s life at home and our customers experience across all touchpoints to provide relevant insights;

• To take the lead and drive performance update, commercial and operational insights (where possible) and secure the relevant inputs during the forecasting and budgeting process;

• To work closely with the Commercial Team in identifying commercial opportunities and promote the use of business case thinking when evaluating and acting on those opportunities;

• To drive and coordinate the financial business planning process and secure that the financial dimensions are aligned with the store challenges and priorities while involving and creating commitment among stakeholders;

• To have a good and full understanding of the Profit & Loss (P & L) for the store and steer actions to provide store in shape as new, managing and/or reducing costs while considering all impacts on the P&L and follow up on result and activate scenario plan (if applicable);

• To steer the effective use of staffing resources through using process effectiveness KPIs to ensure constant evaluation and improvement of our staff planning;

• To provide relevant, user-friendly business information, promote standardised reports and secure competence in the organisation to allow for analysis and understanding of the performance to make optimal business decisions; 

• To secure all investments are done with proper analysis/ ROI, considering all aspects of different projects;

• To ensure and implement relevant rules and guidelines in the areas of Risk and Compliance, cash administration routines, accounting rules among others

Your profile

• A strategic finance business partner with at least 10 years of leadership experience, strong analytical skills and commercial acumen to be able to translate business needs into financial consequences and solutions;

• A collaboration champion with strong influencing skills to navigate and succeed in a large matrix organisation;

• A leader who has experience in leading teams, preferably in retail environment coupled with budget and business steering;

• A retailer who contributes towards the business through actions and presence including weekends, public holidays and on rotating shifts