What you'll need to have
- 2-4 years working experience in a management position, preferable in distribution, retail, logistics or similar
- Good knowledge of supply chain, warehousing operations, understanding and interest in 3rd party logistics
- Proven knowledge of health and safety laws, standards and regulations related to warehousing activities
- Proven successful leadership in delivering both business results and people development
- Analytical capability to enable translation of business and customer needs into development initiatives, project management skill (organizational and time management).
- Entrepreneurship and ability to drive change and embrace the changing and ability to act pro-actively and be able to find new solutions and solve problems
- Dynamic, action-oriented team player that is self-motivated and confident in making decisions, also in the unknown
- Broad Understanding of Supply Chain and standard ways of working
- Good in communication across all levels
- University degree in Economics, Logistics, Engineering, Supply Chain Management or proven performance in supply chain management is a plus
- Fluent in English and Italian
What you'll be doing day to day
- Be responsible for overall warehouse goals setting and for creating and implementing local business plans/project
- Be responsible to increase DC efficiency and achieve operational KPIs, challenging and improving current ways of working
- Be responsible together with internal ESP to secure an adequate operations sizing in order to cope with volume forecast and possible deviations
- Be focused on Everyday Product Quality standards, striving for excellence
- Promote collaboration and co-creation across the whole Supply Chain and involved stakeholders
- Secure that legal and safety & security demands are respected according to IKEA requirements
- Communicate, lead and develop people according to the “Human Resource Idea” and leading through values
- Empower your team by delegating responsibility, especially to your team leaders to help them grow and develop according to their individual ability and experience.
We’re the team behind the scenes that make the IKEA products available to the many people. As a diverse mix of co-workers we use our supply process expertise to balance range and space capacity with forecasting and ordering to provide customers with high availability while minimizing costs. If you’ve wonder who’s responsible for finding effective and efficient ways of picking up the products for our customers, that’s us. We’re passionate about working together to improve the customer experience at IKEA!
📌 Warehouse Manager Central Fulfillment
🏢 Ikea
📍 Piacenza