About the job
Support the Business Navigation & Operations Manager in navigating the growth and securing sustained profitability of IKANO. Drive the business navigation processes, including staff cost and productivity development. Be a pro-active, trustworthy business partner to the Country Business Navigation Manager, Finance Managers and store steering team by steering and challenging the actual business performance for the assigned area of responsibility.
Your assignment
- 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.