Job ID: 278837 Date posted: 25/02/2025 Who you are - Educational background in Economics or similar - Good communication skills to relate with different stakeholders and effective interpersonal skills with the ability to build trustful relationships with stakeholders of different seniority levels within the store. - Good knowledge of Excel and the ability to manage and analyse data by generating reports. - The aptitude to renew, improve, and embrace the change exploiting new business and growth opportunities. - The ability to take your own initiatives and responsibilities. - The flexibility to manage different tasks trying to approach them with different points of view. - Ability to communicate confidently and clearly in Italian and English. A day in your life with us - Implement staff planning strategy at the store level, following principles/guidelines as localised by the Global Matrix Team and country People Planning function. - Ensuring adherence to IKEA employment standards, legal, and union requirements related to People Planning in Store. - Contribute to the store’s complete staff planning process from forecasting to the execution of the schedule by posting draft schedules timely, ensuring scheduled hours include planned absences and liaising on the development of final schedules with department managers in order to respond to co-workers, customers and business needs. - Identify possible improvements in the staff planning process and escalate any potential deviation to the Unit P&C Manager when the scheduled or actual hours exceed the agreed financial framework. - Ensure that the store’s people planning process supports developing our talents and enables them to deliver an excellent and personal customer meeting. - Collaborate with recruiting manager and Unit P&C Generalist to ensure vacancies are filled with the right contract type, to secure the right preconditions for the co-worker to create a great customer meeting. IKEA is all about people, and our team make sure to bring the best people on board to keep our strong spirit of togetherness. We believe that different experiences and backgrounds collectively make us wiser and stronger, and we ensure that our co-workers bloom into their best selves as they contribute to our business.