Retail Growth & Profit Navigator

IKEA; Johor Bahru; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

IKEA discounts

Flexi benefits

Maternity/Paternity leave

Gifts/Long service awards

Job summary

The IKEA Southeast Asia business in Malaysia seeks a proactive professional to support the Business Navigation & Operations Manager in driving growth and sustained profitability. You will analyze performance, secure cost control, and contribute to omnichannel initiatives on the store level.

You will develop standardised dashboards, monitor store P&L, forecast working hours and staff costs, and partner with HR to plan resources while ensuring budget targets are met.

Qualifications

• Possess at least minimum 1-3 years of experience in a retail market, preferably from store or country company level, with a good understanding of how the commercial and financial processes work.
• Possess at least minimum 1-3 years of experience of developing new ways of working and implementing proven solutions for efficiency purposes.
• Possess at least minimum 1-3 years of experience in data analysis, developing metrics and projections based on analysis results.

Responsibilities

• Provide store steering team with information, analysis, and expert insight to support, challenge, and steer the store towards growth, optimal performance, and sustained longterm profitability.
• Promote standardised dashboards and secure competence in the store to allow for analysis and understanding of performance and for making optimal decisions.
• Contribute to new ways of measuring and steering the business performance in an omnichannel environment, including productivity goals and productivity measurements to ensure performance.
• Have a full overview of store profit & loss and take responsibility for cost development and gross margin management, as well as for specific lines of the profit & loss, supporting Store and Country Business Navigation Manager in achieving a healthy profit & loss through key performance analysis and evaluation.
• Responsible for overall forecasting and monitoring, including the execution of working hours and staff cost structure, as well as budget, to ensure that set targets are met.
• Contribute with business navigation expertise in driving projects and business initiatives forward to secure the budget frame and healthy cost development.
• Develop and drive short-, mid-, and long-term resource planning, together with the HR manager to ensure cost efficiency.
• Conduct the necessary analysis, while securing a multi-dimensional view of the business, to evaluate retail performance with the customer in focus.
• Contribute with input and coordinate the financial business planning, budgeting, and followup for the assigned areas of responsibility to ensure goals are met.
• Responsible for commercial sales navigation on the sales floor to secure sustained profitability.
• Contribute with input and provide expertise to the store boards to enable performance.

Skills

Data analysis

Forecasting

Profit & loss

English fluency

Time management

Tools

Excel

Job description

The IKEA Southeast Asia business in Malaysia seeks a proactive professional to support the Business Navigation & Operations Manager in driving growth and sustained profitability. You will analyze performance, secure cost control, and contribute to omnichannel initiatives on the store level.

You will develop standardised dashboards, monitor store P&L, forecast working hours and staff costs, and partner with HR to plan resources while ensuring budget targets are met.