Inventory Control Senior - IKEA

Job description / Role

Inventory Control Senior - IKEA - Doha, Qatar

One of the companies bearing Al-Futtaim name is IKEA.

IKEA is the worlds largest home furnishings store, founded in Sweden over 60 years ago. At IKEA not only our furniture is down to earth, straightforward and inspiring, but so is our work ethics. Despite being the leading home furnishing retail franchisee across the world, we at IKEA still give you the room to grow! At IKEA creating a better everyday life for the many isnt only our vision, its our way of life!

To manage the Physical Inventory Department of the IKEA store and support the Inventory Control Executive. Ensure all items in the store are counted in a systematic & planned manner thereby providing better stock availability for the business and also ensuring better data integrity.

Operational:
- To be responsible for planning and coordinating annual and perpetual inventories stock count for the Store.
- Analyze deviation and discrepancies ascertaining a tolerance level for shrinkage.
- To review and update the PI SOPs, as well as maintaining consistent stock balances by adhering to strict physical inventory control procedures.
- To act as an interface between the inventory and the goods receiving department thereby monitoring and analyzing the errors arising from the different areas.

Commercial:
- To work together with Logistics, Sales, and Communication and Interior Design teams in order to ensure the manual errors binning/posting errors are reduced and the disciplines in the SOPs are followed while transferring stocks to display and selling the same from display.

Financial:
- To be responsible for periodically meetings with the AF Group audit team for the assessment and validation of the inventory process of IKEA which includes the existing procedures, business application, documentation and final approvals of stock shrinkages after stock take.

Requirements

- Graduate (Bachelor of Commerce)
- 5 to 7 years goods flow and supply chain management experience
- Knowledge of retail operations
- Advanced Computer skills (MS Office packages) and operating systems (Navision)
- Excellent written and verbal English
- Focus on continuous improvement of existing operations
- Customer Focused

About the Company

Established in the 1930's, the Al-Futtaim Group initially operated as a trading enterprise. Rapid development throughout the 1940's and 50's saw it establish itself regionally as an integrated commercial, industrial and services organisation, positioning itself one of the leading business houses in the lower Gulf region. Today, it operates collectively over 40 companies bearing the Al-Futtaim name, dominates many market segments in the UAE, and has expanded its sphere of operation to include Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Egypt.

The Group comprises a diverse range of strategically positioned operating subsidiaries and associate companies, structured to give the Al-Futtaim Group the flexibility and versatility to keep ahead of local competition while keeping pace with the ever-evolving global business scenario. The Groups continued investment in world-class systems technology is clear evidence of its commitment to maintain leading edge performance and service delivery.

The success of the Al-Futtaim Group can be attributed to a business approach that combines the ability to change with the traditional values of integrity, service and social responsibility that define its core business philosophy. This, linked with the Groups belief in decentralisation, gives the heads of the operating companies a high degree of functional autonomy and authority, providing the Group with essential flexibility, and individual employees a clearly defined work culture and sense of responsibility.