Team Leader Sales

You care about making a positive impact in the world. You understand greatness requires thinking differently. An inclusive and accepting work environment is important to you.

A job at IKEA is so much more than home furnishings. Together, we work to make a better everyday life for the many. It's the perfect fit if you want to contribute, grow, and share. Join the team and start a better life for yourself.

As an inspirational team leader, you will manage a team and be responsible for creating an extraordinary shopping experience for our customers and driving sales and profitability results in your department.

• You have experience in leading, motivating and developing a team to reach excellent results.
• You are passionate about sales, are result-driven and have a strong customer-orientation.
• You know how to drive commercial performance in a retail setting by continuously optimizing and managing your sales space.
• You are a considerate decision-maker with strong analytical capabilities and prioritization skills.
• You speak the local language fluently and communicate well in English.

• Taking responsibility for your department’s sales goals, aligning your action plan country priorities and ensuring their implementation in your sales area.
• Steering the sales to your department’s top-selling products, prioritised products (e.g. overstock) and IKEA service products in order to maximise sales and long-term profitability.
• Making sure that your shop is in excellent condition, fully stocked w and the IKEA product range presented in ways that inspire the customers.
• Understanding and making the best commercial use of the various IKEA sales and communication channels to reach customers.
• Developing and coaching your team and its individual members.
• Managing your team and the staff plan to ensure that your sales area is sufficiently staffed to be available to serve customers and actively help them to buy.
• Promoting the IKEA social and environmental commitment and working with your team to understand how, together, you can contribute to sustainability.

We mentioned ealier that we want our employees to be happy and healthy.

It also means saying 'thank you'!

Our way of saying thank you:

• 28 vacation days (based on a 100% workload)
• 8 weeks paid parental leave for fathers; 20 weeks paid parental leave for mothers
• Very attractive social benefits
• 15% staff discount on your purchase - in every Swiss IKEA store
• You would rather travel to work by public transport? We pay between 85% and 100% of your yearly travel ticket
• Unlimited access to the Linked In learning platform
• Affordable and healthy meals in our staff canteen (CHF 4.50 for meat dishes and CHF 3.50 for veggie dishes)
• Bonus payments for all employees

There are many opportunities for career development  encourage and support our employees to try out different roles, move between functions or even go abroad.

From the deep forests in Sweden, we have spread our culture and values around the world. At the heart of our offer are our beautiful home-furnishing products and solutions, made with care for our planet, reaching millions of customers.

At the heart of our business, are our wonderful co-workers representing diversity in all dimensions and passionate for life  all contribute with our uniqueness and we want to grow and develop together.

Our vision, “to create a better everyday life for the many people” inspires and guides us in everything we do. This is IKEA.

• Living our values
• Being your unique self, while respecting and including others
• A passion for home furnishing
• Performing & delivering while learning & developing