Core Area Manager Jobs

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What you’ll be doing day to day:

• Accountable for defining the core area strategy (with business leaders) and enabling execution in all channels via Business Leaders.
• Supervise the performance of sales, profit and gross margin in the Core area to maximize efficiency and effectiveness, and to ensure performance excellence throughout the year. Act on deviations and opportunities.
• Actively cooperate with all key stakeholders within Commercial and beyond to secure integration, common focus and to maximize impact (for example Customer, Digital, CFF (Customer Fulfilment), Communications, Sustainability, Business Navigation, People & Culture).
• Lead the Core Area team, taking an umbrella view across Home Furnishing Business Areas (HFBs) in the core area in question, driving sales and securing peak performance throughout the year.
• Contribute to the integrated multichannel executions/output of the Core Area in order to contribute to the business goals to realize business opportunities.
• Actively cooperate with Group Core Area Leader regarding commercial and HF&RD solutions, as well as the HFB managers in IKEA of Sweden regarding range & supply.
• Responsible to drive the Core Area Business through setting the direction based on a deep understanding of the local market needs from a consumer and range perspective using life at home as the base.

We want you to be a person who:

• Have clearly communication in business strategies and priorities in achieving the overall goals.
• Knowing the global priorities, the range, the national market and competition. Ability to define Home Furnishing Business Plans.
• Understand the markets, consumers and their living situations to improve how the customers’ meeting with the range.
• Experience to ensure all initiatives grow the sales and support the sustaining of long-term profitability.
• Strong leadership skills with experience in managing huge team in a retail home furnishing environment.
• Ability to price the range competitively, securing the lowest price in the market and have the appropriate forecast to achieve: agreed turnover, agreed profit, agreed gross margin and volume commitments.

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