Trainee Business Navigation & Operations Manager

IKEA; Pisa; In loco; EUR 25.000 - 35.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

IKEA is seeking a Business Navigation Trainee in Pisa to support the Business Navigation Manager in driving growth and optimizing performance. The role combines analytical skills with strategic business thinking, requiring communication in English and Italian. This opportunity is for proactive individuals ready to impact IKEA's business positively.

Competenze

• Ability to communicate confidently in English and Italian.
• Desire to act as a trustworthy business partner with urgency and results orientation.

Mansioni

• Lead the Business Plan process and coordinate financial business planning.
• Develop understanding of Profit & Loss statement for the store.
• Optimize store performance by implementing best practices and following up on KPIs.

Conoscenze

Analytical skills

Communication

Influencing

Business understanding

Proactivity

Multidimensional thinking

Trend recognition

Descrizione del lavoro

But what is a Trainee? In this case, it is a person who will be included in a training and development process alongside the Business Navigation Manager for a certain period of time with the goal of acquiring all the necessary skills to cover that role in the future.

You will support the BNOM in creating customer value, driving growth, and optimizing long-term business performance for IKEA Retail by enabling better business decisions, securing efficiency, and leading in accordance with financial and business strategies. This includes ensuring financial and business performance, maintaining a safe and secure environment in compliance with laws, policies, standards, and processes. You will support and challenge the organization through business-case thinking, and take the lead in developing and promoting lean, simple, and effective ways of working.

• Lead the store Business Plan process together with the store manager and management team, proactively working with local market data to understand people's lives at home and our customers' experience across various touchpoints to provide relevant insights.
• Drive and coordinate the financial business planning process, ensuring that financial dimensions align with store challenges and priorities, while involving and creating commitment among stakeholders when setting goals.
• Collaborate with the Commercial Team to identify commercial opportunities and promote the use of business case thinking when evaluating and acting on these opportunities.
• Develop a full understanding of the Profit & Loss statement for the store and steer actions to keep the store in optimal shape, reduce costs, and consider all impacts on the P&L. Follow up on results, create forecasts, and activate scenario plans if needed.
• Continuously optimize and develop store results and performance by implementing best practices, identifying opportunities through close gap analysis, and following up on KPIs.
• Provide relevant, user-friendly business information, promote standardized reporting, and secure organizational competence to analyze and understand performance for making optimal business decisions.
• Ensure all investments are supported by proper analysis or business ROI, considering all aspects of the different projects.
• Lead and develop leaders and teams within the BNO function's areas of responsibility. Identify and develop talents and secure succession planning.
• Create a safe, secure, and compliant environment for customers, suppliers, and co-workers. Ensure the implementation of relevant rules and guidelines in risk and compliance, cash administration routines, and accounting standards.

What you'll need to have

• You are a strategic business partner, with analytical skills and a passion for numbers, capable of translating business needs into financial consequences and solutions.
• You possess good communication skills with the ability to influence and energize the organization.
• You are a proactive, trustworthy business partner who views the business from multiple dimensions, connecting customer and organizational needs with a comprehensive understanding of profit & loss, balance sheet, and cash flow management.
• You have a strong sense of urgency and results orientation.
• You can recognize external trends relevant to your local market and translate them into business opportunities.
• You are approachable, considered a trustworthy and knowledgeable partner, leading by example and taking a multidimensional approach to steering the business.
• You can communicate confidently and clearly in English and Italian, both written and spoken.
• Willingness to be nationally mobile.

We see ourselves as influencers — we steer the IKEA business by uncovering the truth behind the figures. Together, we ensure compliance with local and international laws and reporting standards; we make sure accounting processes are efficient and tax compliance meets business needs. We are a diverse group driven by providing reliable financial data to a wide variety of stakeholders. Ultimately, this is one of the foundations to make IKEA even better!