1. Lead and manage team and work with colleagues to understand our local competitor service offers, our customers’ shopping behaviours and their living situations, and use these insights to improve our customers’ shopping experience.
2. Work with team to secure an easy buying process that will make it easy and convenient for our customers to shop at all times throughout the day and encourage repeat visits to the store.
3. Ensure all the IKEA shopping tools are in place, in the right quantity and functioning effectively.
4. Work with team and other functions to promote and encourage a customer-focused culture throughout the store to ensure we are first choice for home furnishings and destination for the whole family.
5. Always look at the store through the eyes of customers and walk the shop floor during different times throughout the trading day. Use this opportunity to talk to my co-workers, giving input and encouraging their feedback.
6. Regularly meet with our customers to learn from their experiences, ideas and views in order to improve the home to home shopping experience.
7. Analyse feedback from our customers and work with my team and other functions to make improvements to our customers’ shopping experience by securing an easy buying process throughout the store.
8. Ensure within our store we take a responsible, understanding and friendly approach to customer complaints using the generous return policy in our country, to handle both effectively and efficiently.
9. Ensure fast and easy payment processes in my store.
10. Take responsibility for ensuring customer guidance throughout the store is clear and up-to-date, and use customer feedback to implement changes that reflect their changing needs.
11. Ensure we build strong customer relations over time by optimising the potential of our loyalty programs.
12. Monitor waiting times and work closely with my team and other functions to improve scheduling throughout the store to reduce waiting times.
13. Collect, analyse customer data and draw conclusions and share them with my colleagues in the store to secure improvements to our long-term customer satisfaction.
14. Co-operating and influencing the commercial team, my team and other support functions to ensure that they understand the customer’s perspective when implementing new solution and evaluating exiting ones.
15. Ensure quality standards are met in store by focusing on the detail in order that the store is clean and tidy at all times of the trading day.
16. Develop a customer relations action plan for the store based on insights from our customers’ feedback, the store business plan, taking input from my team and my matrix manager, working with the country customer relations action plan.