Catalogue Manager – IKEA

Job description / Role

Catalogue Manager – IKEA Dubai Festival City

One of the companies bearing Al-Futtaim name is IKEA.
IKEA is the world's 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 isn't only our vision, it's our way of life!We are currently recruiting for a Catalogue Manager to be based in our Dubai Festival City operation. Within this role you will be responsible for the management and control of IKEA's most important marketing tool, its annual catalogue, by ensuring a competent catalogue strategy for all the territories that fall under IKEA/ Al Futtaim Group. The strategy should aim at complementing the overall marketing strategy at generating maximum number of visitors to the IKEA stores, thus affecting the long-term profit.
With the 2012-2015 expansion plans for IKEA franchisees within the UAE, Qatar, Egypt and Oman, catalogue manager's role is very strategic, ensuring total quality of all steps related to the catalogue work and control of the planning, production and distribution stages.

Requirements

The successful candidate will be able to display the following skills and experience

* Minimum Qualifications and Knowledge:
* University graduate

Minimum Experience:

* Must have a minimum of 5-7 years of management level work in managerial or supervisory role
* Must have Publishing, distribution or project management background
* Must have strategic, analytical and tactical abilities
* Must be a quick problem solver and multi-tasker
* Must have deep knowledge of utilising macro and micro economics in planning
* Must be computer literate (All Microsoft Programs and Adobe Desktop Publishing package)
* Ideally an Arabic speaker

Job-Specific Skills:

* Change Management,
* Organisational Development,
* Management Development,
* Performance/Compensation Management,
* People and Time Management
* Analytical skills, financial modeling skills, good communication skills and problem solving skills.

Behavioural Competencies :

* Must have the ability to create an environment where the IKEA values are a strong and living reality that embraces the diversity of co-workers and visitors

* Customer Focus
* Individual Accountability
* Continuous Improvement
* Personal Leadership

Teamwork

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.