Replenishment Range Specialist  

Your Assignments:

1. Responsible for coordinating the commercial range including the range renewal process and through aligning the offered range in each selling unit with the agreed range and initiating corrective actions in cooperation with Sales Leaders.
2. Responsible for securing that the full range is available to all customers at all touchpoints through excellent range administration and maintenance connected to news, seasonal, running and discontinues articles to exceed customer expectations, provide a seamless shopping experience and a great quality in meeting with the customer.
3. Contribute to the range change planning and implementation in the selling units by assisting the Sales Leaders with planning information and in the creation of initial forecasts on news and allocation of discontinued split to selling units.
4. Responsible for providing range frames based on the range selection and the selling units’ capacity and with input from the Market Flow and Capacity Planning Team and according to global range dimensioning rules. Contribute to the work of the Sales leaders with this information.
5. Responsible for the allocation of unexpected deviations of discontinued items to the selling units while taking into considerations all commercial implications and monitor the range change process and initiate necessary actions with the Commercial Team.
6. Responsible for developing local improvements in working methods, systems and tools and for implementing global routines, systems solutions and ways of working with all partners in the Supply Chain, Retail and Customer Fulfilment on the market, in close cooperation and co-creation with the Group Order and Forecast Team to secure continuous improvement.
7. Contribute with both knowledge and expertise (on range selection and administration) to optimal operational and multichannel development and tendering activities as well as to all matrices, global initiatives and competence networks.
8. Responsible for maintaining a setting of all needed parameters in all related systems.
9. Responsible for promoting and stimulating entrepreneurial orientation and contribution to development and innovation for the own organisation and total IKEA in close cooperation with the Group Functions.
10. Responsible for considering the parameters connected to the Customer Fulfilment sustainability agenda on the market in the range allocation process across all touchpoints.

Your Profiles:

1. Experienced in retailing and/or in home furnishing and life at home.
2. University degree (Logistics, Economics, Business Administration or related) or 1-2 years’ experience in the area of expertise.
3. Retail/home furnishing/supply chain/customer service experience and interest.
4. Collaborative mind-set: good in building relationships within the organisation with ability to influence others within the own area of expertise by using communication skills.
5. Experience in problem solving and improving ways of working.
6. Attention to quality with ability to complete the work according to procedures and quality standards in timely manner.
7. High organisational skills and ability to work in a structured way.
8. End-to-end orientation: ability to apply analytical process oriented thinking when acting and propose solutions.
9. Proven analytical and numeric skills and ability to identify required actions.
10. Ability to respond to business and customer needs by providing effective solutions within the area of expertise.
11. Confident and clear communication on English both written and verbal.
12. Excellent computer skills and high proficiency on Microsoft Office.