Al Futtaim Jobs - Home Planning Advisor | IKEA | Al Wahda, Abu Dhabi (AE)

About Al-Futtaim Private Company LLC

 

No two days are the same at Al-Futtaim, no matter what role you have. Our work is driven by the desire to make a difference and to have a meaningful impact with the goal of enriching everyday lives. Take our engaging and supportive work environment and couple it with a company culture that recognises and rewards quality performance, and what do you get? The chance to push the limits every single day.

 

As a humble family business that started on the banks of the Dubai Creek in the 1930s, Al-Futtaim has expanded to a presence in 31 countries, a portfolio of over 200 companies, and 42,000 employees. You’ll find us in industries ranging from automotive and retail, to finance and real estate, and connecting people with international names like Lexus, Ikea, Robinsons, and Adidas. Our team is proudly multicultural and multinational because that kind of diverse representation gives us the global mindset to grow and impact the people, markets, and trends around us.

 

About Al-Futtaim IKEA

 

GROWING TOGETHER...

 

We are a values-driven company with a passion for life at home. Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people.

 

Al-Futtaim IKEA holds the franchise rights for IKEA in Egypt, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

 

About You

You have the ability to generate new ideas and concepts. You have a passion for home furnishing, retailing, design and how people live at home. You are able to draw, visualise and present ideas. You have the ability to work in a fast retail environment. You are enthusiastic about assignments and working with others in a team.

 

What's more, we believe that you have the following knowledge, capabilities and motivation:

• Live and share the IKEA values every day

• Education: Degree in Interior Design or Architecture
• Computer proficient with knowledge and experience of using relevant software (e.g. AutoCad).
• Experience of working with interior design in a retail environment.
• Retail and home furnishing experience
• Visual competence with a keen eye for aesthetics. 
• Ability to generate new ideas and concepts. 
• A passion for home furnishing, retailing, design and how people live at home. 
• Able to draw, visualise and present ideas. 
• Entusiastic about assignments and working with others in a team.
• Good attention to detail. 
• Practical hands-on approach to work. 
• Must have valid UAE Driving License.
• Must have Design presentation skills.
• Good communication skills in English & preferably Native Arabic Speaker. 

 

About the role

You are responsible for creating relevant, functional, aesthetic and commercial home furnishing solutions that contribute to positioning the IKEA Brand in the local market as the leader in life at home. You are  accountable for individual sales targets and provide Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and regular feedback to management to ensure that the store sales targets are achieved. Furthermore offer a highly efficient, courteous and accurate service of home planning for furniture and furnishings and recommend co-ordination to customers that require assistance for small businesses or homes. Safeguard that cash is dealt with solely and that only customers needing assistance with the planning of their home or business are scheduled for consultations.

 

Key Specific Accountabilities:

Operational

• Plan meetings with customers according to the scheduled work load convenient to both the co-worker and customer in order to guarantee proper planning.
• Ensure that an updated list of stock levels is available, so that customers are told of any problems with the choice of their furniture and furnishings and recommend solutions based on stock availability.
• Maintain accurate and up to date knowledge of the different style groups available as to ascertain that customers are given well planned home furniture and furnishing solutions, in line with the commercial priorities within the store and moreover make sure that customers’ requests are understood and fulfilled 
• Provide regular feedback to the Sales Manager – Furniture/ Market hall of any irregular orders required and give feedback of any regular out of stock articles, so that the range department can rectify these deficiencies.

Customers

• Ensure that customers’ orders are co-coordinated with in-store logistics to avoid that stock levels are interfered with for other store customers.
• Provide friendly and professional service to all customers that require assistance and follow through with any queries and questions that are required to achieve efficient and excellent customer service.
• Contact the customers after the completion of delivery and assembly and rectify any complaints immediately to project commendable customer support.

Commercial

• Meet pre-set sales targets and communicate constantly to the management opportunities on how to achieve optimal sales, which will also help to improve efficiency of the home planning.
• Be constantly aware of the department sales, individual sales and the store sales targets, so that corrective action can be taken to achieve these targets.
• Initiate sales steering with the view of improving the margins and reducing the level of outgoing articles.
• Provide weekly and monthly KPI’s to enable the department to achieve improvements and required results throughout the year and in line with that to guarantee complete customer service and repeat business.
• Have a very strong level of communication with the line managers, in-store logistics co-workers, specialist sales executives (sales seniors) and the customer service department to ensure relevant information is passed on to the concerned people.
• Schedule convenient delivery and assembly times with the customer and customer service department and update these departments with any changes or potential requirements to enable the business to function as efficiently as possible.
• Communicate with the contract sales department should a query for their services be requested, and this must also be followed in the case of faxes, Emails and telephone calls. etc. to avoid losing any business opportunities.

 

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