Deputy Warehouse Manager

Who you are
- You gained your first leadership experience ideally workingin a management function (preferably in warehouse operations and logistics).
- You know of Austrian health and safety laws, standards and regulations related to warehousing activities.
- You can analyse flows via excel, KPIs and take actions based on evaluation.
- You have the ambition to work in a high-performing environment and the ability to drive change.
- You love to communicate effectively to achieve your goals together with your team
- You can act as a strong leader and a team player with the ability to lead not only the many co-workers but also teamleaders.
- You play an active role within the unit management team to steer success in operations and also people topics.
- You are fluent in English and German, both written and spoken.

**Responsibilities**:
In this role you reach excellence in daily running Distribution Center operations. Lead, coach and develop teams responsible for delivering goods within the agreed time and in the agreed quality to the lowest possible Distribution Center operational costs with the customer in focus and the total supply chain in mind. Your are responsible for:

- daily operation in the warehouse to keep our customer promise of a 2 day lead-time.
- overall warehouse goals setting, implementation of local business plans and commitment to achieve efficiency of warehouse operations to reduce cost, improve productivity and work spirit with total supply chain.
- staff planning, shift
- and equipment planning based on volume forecast (MTP and STP) to secure operational business and activities to meet goods availability.
- the creation of co-workers quality awareness & behaviors to reduce damages.
- working processes that are in compliance with IKEA rules and guidelines as well as laws and regulations are followed and maintained.
- providing information about plans and results to co-workers and explain their overall importance.

About this work area

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

IKEA offers an exciting and responsible working environment. We combine our values with a passion for home furnishings. Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people who live there. As the leading specialist in home living, we offer you countless opportunities to grow and develop with us. And we make sure that our employees feel comfortable with us.

For this position, we offer an all-in salary of EUR 3.600 gross per month. Depending on experience and qualification an overpayment is possible. Attractive social benefits are offered. Place of work: Wels, Terminalstraße 2