Demand & Supply Support Specialist, IKEA Pasay City

The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. We do this by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible can afford them. We operate in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand – and have an ambitious expansion plan to bring a little bit of Sweden to new markets in the region. We are part of the Ikano Group of companies and the only IKEA franchisee owned by the Kamprad family that founded IKEA.

We also develop, own and operate Shopping Centres that are anchored by IKEA and create walkable communities by including residential, office and other types of real estate in our development plans.

We work towards making sustainability a natural part of our everyday work. We are active in our communities, driving and supporting social initiatives that benefit children, women and the environment.

About the job

Reporting to the Sales and Supply Support Manager, this SPECIALIST (Sales and Supply Support Specialist) role will contribute to a great meeting with customers in the store by ensuring a consistently high availability of our product offers, with the highest quality, and at lowest possible cost.

Your assignment

• You secure the highest possible products availability in the store, in partnership with the Commercial Team, and in consideration of country-specific positioning campaigns, the commercial calendar and local store activities;
• You work actively with the Sales Team in product range management by  quality and timely administration of the product range in the system;
• You contribute to successful product replenishments by working actively with forecasting and ordering, in alignment with the commercial calendar;
• You work actively and proactively with the Commercial Team on the product range change process by providing information regarding sales space parameters, expected sales start, quantity and remaining outgoing quantities;
• You support the Goods Flow Manager with stock discrepancies analysis, as part of the inventory management process;
• You produce necessary follow-ups for the Commercial and Management teams regarding operational processes in the store, including phasing in and out, overstock and concrete activities, and non-central shortages.

• You are highly interested in home furnishing, people’s life at home, and the IKEA product range;
• You are passionate about logistics and working in a fast-paced and constantly changing retail
• environment;
• You have at least 3 years of relevant experience in a fast-paced retail or logistics environment, with focus on supply chain, demand planning / forecasting;
• You possess high analytical and numerical skills, are skilled in supporting an efficient and cost-effective, commercial performance, and able to make objective decisions based on monitoring, and reviewing of the in-store Logistics system and other available information;
• You possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust, establish, and maintain effective work relationships with cross-departmental colleagues.

This role requires flexibility in work hours depending on store operational requirements. Working on public holidays and weekends.

We offer many benefits at IKEA other than just having the opportunity to work for a global company! Along with a focus on your personal and career development goals and being a part of an inclusive culture driven by values, you will be entitled to great initiatives including Annual leave, Medical and Dental, Family & Community leave, Co-worker discount, subsidized meals in our Co-worker Restaurant, Bonus program, full training and inductions.

This role requires flexibility in work hours, depending on store operational requirements.

Work Location is at IKEA Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines.

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