Ikea Jobs Uk – Sales Team Leader In Kingston upon Hull

Overview

Position Title: Sales Team Leader

Company: IKEA

Location: Kingston upon Hull, UK

Job Description

We are looking for someone who has been in a similar position, is confident in leading a team, approaching customers and who treats everyone in a polite and friendly manner. A person who is passionate about supporting co-workers to achieve while actively offering all the services available in the IKEA store to help customers make informed choices, which results in a great shopping experience.

Responsibilities:

• You actively promote the IKEA social and environmental commitment and work with your team to understand how, together, you can contribute to sustainability.
• You work closely with the Shopkeeper to ensure your shop is in excellent shape as new and fully stocked, and with the four merchandising basics always in place.
• Together with the Shopkeeper, you take responsibility for your department goals and ensure your action plan is in place and communicated clearly to co-workers in your team.
• Together with your team, you focus on putting the customer first in everything you do within the store.
• Every customer must have a shopping experience that exceeds his or her expectations.
• You and your team actively sales steer to your department’s top-selling products, prioritised products and IKEA service products in order to maximise sales and long-term profitability.
• 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 execute meaningful actions that are based on the outcome of a key performance indicator analysis at Shopkeeper level.
• Your working base is the shop floor where you lead by example every day, supporting, challenging and coaching co-workers.
• You are passionate about the IKEA products in your store.
• You create a high level of knowledge about the products’ features and benefits and share this with customers and your team.
• You act quickly on commercial opportunities; changing availability of products and customer feedback.

Requirements:

• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel & ability to use other MS Office Apps
• A finance-related degree/or studying towards an accounting qualification
• Knowledge of accounting and financial reporting rules, standards, and manuals along with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Ability to communicate effectively and build relationships with stakeholders in a virtual environment
• Min. 2 years of experience in tax accounting
• Good understanding of tax accounting, statutory and regulatory reporting as well as knowledge of how to provide support in an auditing process
• Analytical mindset and attention to detail