Supporting the Shopkeeper which seeks sales maximization in your area of responsibility using knowledge of your HFBs, local market and your customers, as well as the IKEA tools and the experience and expertise of your colleagues. You support the efficient working of the IKEA mechanical sales system to ensure the continued success of the IKEA Concept.
You will oversee that your HFB area is in shape and has strong commercial basics during opening hours. Required to work actively with ranges changes and commercial activities, ensuring that top selling products are stocked sufficiently and clearly communicated and displayed at all times.
Share your knowledge and learning with other co-workers to create a constant learning environment and increase their product knowledge.
· Your working base is the shop floor where you lead by example every day, supporting, challenging and coaching co-workers.
· Together with your team, you focus on putting the customer first in everything you do within the store.
· You take full responsibility for ensuring your shop is in excellent shape as new and fully stocked, and with the four merchandising basics in place at all times (priced, clean, well assembled and available).
· Together with your shopkeeper, you take responsibility for your department goals and ensure your action plan is in place and communicated clearly to them. You follow up and take action accordingly by using proven solutions and good examples. You define your individual contribution and goals for delivering the department plan.
· You are passionate about the IKEA products in your shop. You create a high level of knowledge about the products’ features and benefits, and share this with customers and your team.
· You are proactive in finding opportunities and acting on them to maximise sales through understanding customers and the local market and keeping an eye on competition.
· You act quickly on commercial opportunities; changing availability of products (overstock and out of stock) and customer feedback (10 most asked questions).
· You and your team actively sales steer to your department’s top-selling products, prioritised products (e.g. over-stock) and IKEA service products in order to maximise sales and long-term profitability.
· You actively promote the IKEA social and environmental commitment and work with your team to understand how, together, you can contribute to sustainability.