Deputy Business Navigation

**Job ID**: 273330

**Date posted**: 15/01/2025

**Our team within IKEA**
At IKEA, our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. We believe that everything we do comes with the responsibility to create a positive impact on people, society and the planet. We are passionate about home furnishing, creating a positive life at home and sharing our tasty responsibly sourced food with the many people across the world.
We are guided by our cultures & values, creating a great place to work.
We stand for equality, diversity and inclusion.
We care about people & planet and promote health & wellbeing.
We nurture your development and provide career opportunities to unlock your potential.
**What you need to know**
Working at IKEA has its benefits and rewards:

- Leave entitlements - 5 weeks Paid Annual, Paid Parental, Family & Community and much more
- 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Program for health and wellbeing support
- 15% Co-worker discount
- Low-cost nutritious meals including complimentary drinks in our Co-worker restaurant
- Co-worker uniform provided
- Free Co-worker parking
- Digital Entertainment membership (thousands of discounts for dining, fun activities, shopping and travel across Australia & New Zealand)
- Bonus programme (where eligible)
- Co-worker Loyalty programme (extra contribution to your pension fund where eligible)

Additional Information:

- This role is Temporary Full-time, 76hrs/fortnight for 12 months with an aim to secure the Business Navigation & Operations Manager role permanently.
- The internal job title for this role is Deputy Business Navigation & Operations Manager
- Applications close Wednesday 29 January, 2025
- As our store operates 7 days per week, you must have the availability to work a rotating roster with a mix of day and evening shifts. You also have the availability to work alternating weekend shifts (both Saturday and Sunday).

**About this work area**
As Business Navigation & Operations Manager your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

- Lead the financial business planning process for the store, securing that financial dimensions are aligned with the store priorities whilst creating commitment amongst stakeholders when setting goals.
- Contribute and play an active role as a key part of the Unit Management team.
- Secure full understanding of the market profit and loss, seeking out opportunities to grow the business whilst adopting a cost-conscious approach to decision making.
- Provide relevant, user-friendly business information, securing competence in the organisation to allow analysis and understanding of business performance to make optimal business decisions.
- Secure succession through talent identification as well as developing and empowering leaders and teams through sharing your knowledge of the business.
- Lead the Business Risk and Compliance team to create a safety culture that puts visitors, customers, and co-workers’ wellbeing first.
- Lead the Product Quality and Recovery team to optimize profitability.

As Business Navigation & Operations Manager you are:

- Passionate about growing the business through strategic and operational development.
- A highly experienced leader who has the ability to drive the business plan agenda and steer the business to deliver growth and profitability.
- Driven and naturally curious to identify and analyse opportunities within the business to contribute to business growth in a cost-conscious way.
- Able to build robust relationships with stakeholders and influence decisions to positively contribute to the business plan, commercial direction and customer experience.
- Good communication skills with ability to influence and create energy and commitment within the organisation.
- Someone with a strong sense of urgency and result orientation.
- Able to demonstrate a high level of Integrity and maturity.
- Interested in home furnishing and understanding of IKEA values and what it means for people´s everyday life at home.
- Someone with 3-5 years of experience in a similar role

**We need people like you**
At IKEA, work is so much more than a job. Come join us