Can you really reach out to the whole world, creating a better everyday life for the many people? In Älmhult, Sweden you can. Älmhult is home to IKEA of Sweden. Here the IKEA range is developed and made available to stores and customers all over the world. We are here to offer a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. That is our promise, and we do this every day with great passion and energy.

Right now we are looking for candidates with an interest to be a future Sales responsible by leading a global sales agenda.
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About the assignment
The Sales Responsible is a key position within IKEA and plays a major role in the product development processes by securing the link between our sales channels and IKEA of Sweden.
Together with the Product Offer Development team they are responsible for developing, revising and leading implementation for cluster of products (news, moves, improves) as well as commercial activities connected. Furthermore they are responsible to transfer knowledge from market insights, define sales potential and range classification and contribute to the projects including the cost of phasing in/out.
As Sales Responsible you need to be experts in what our customers and markets need and want. Their contribution is incorporating market need into business development and delivering business priorities to retail .You need to initiate and propose activities to secure sales results and range potentials on the global market.

About the job
You feed the product development process with customer behaviour and needs from global market.
You provide competitor information and market trends for the specific home furnishing areas.
You provide detailed sales reports and analytics for the specific home furnishing areas.
You lead and influence different stakeholders from a retail and customer perspective to secure commercial success and acceptance of the range in the IKEA sales channels.

About you
The Sales Responsible position is a challenging and rewarding position with enormous impact on the many people around the world but it needs something to be successful. We love what we do and we seek people who love their work too and who share our values in their professional and everyday life.

To be able to deliver in this global role, the Sales Responsible should have:
• Solid commercial retail knowledge and insights in the various sales channels.
• A strong business sense paired with excellent communication and influencing skills is required
• Solid knowledge on the sales competence areas (planning, steering, pricing etc.)
• Strong insights in the customer needs, behaviours and decision journey in the various sales channels from global perspective
• Strong analytical and financial competence                                                                                                                                                                              

•Digital and multichannel retail knowledge is advantage

IKEA of Sweden is a truly global environment, with colleagues from all over the world and you therefore need to be fluent in English.

Please note that this job-posting is about building up a bank of candidates for future Sales responsible vacancies that we expect in IKEA of Sweden over the next 3 to 12 months.

As part of the recruitment process we will organize an Interview day, which will take place in March, wk11.

For more information about the position or the recruitment process, you are welcome to contact Hana Pazourova, Recruitment Specialist, at 0046 70 833 70 87

If this appeals to you we look forward receiving your application in English at the latest Feb 4th 2017!