HR Store Manager

**Company Description**
The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. We do this by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible can afford them. We operate in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand - and have an ambitious expansion plan to bring a little bit of Sweden to new markets in the region. We are part of the Ikano Group of companies and the only IKEA franchisee owned by the Kamprad family that founded IKEA.

We also develop, own and operate Shopping Centres that are anchored by IKEA and create walkable communities by including residential, office and other types of real estate in our development plans.

We work towards making sustainability a natural part of our everyday work. We are active in our communities, driving and supporting social initiatives that benefit children, women and the environment.

ASSIGNMENT

Operational Excellence
- Support and guide in the recruitment and introduction process. Using the framework to be able to attract and retain people
- Ensure that we follow national legislation, regulations and valid agreements in the labour market; e.g. employment contracts
- Ensure that remuneration practises in the store are competitive related to local market which enable us to attract and retain the right people in our business.
- Making sure that the salary review process are handled in a structured and professional way
- Ensure that the store uses HR data to enable better management of all human resource related processes
- Ensure staff costs are in line with set targets as set in the budget
- Ensure that payroll, time and attendance, staff planning works in a timely and efficient way
- Maintain a trustful relationship with unions

Building Business Competence
- Contribute actively that the store has a sufficient number of well qualified managers using management and competence review as the main tool and method for success
- Create a business and value-driven diversity adapted to the store needs
- Ensure that the store has a systematic approach to learning and development following the learning staircase when building business competence
- Create an atmosphere where knowledge sharing, internal promotion throughout Retail Asia and high commitment to Ikano results in an organisation that are able to attract, retain and develop talented co-workers

Leading for Performance
- Support managers in the development talk/performance appraisals process.
- Ensure that managers in store regularly strengthen their individual leadership capability to meet both current situation and future business needs
- Actively contribute that we build a common leadership language reflecting our leadership capabilities.
- Coach and support managers based on individual needs
- Support the different store functions in Voice survey, ensure goals and actions are identified, communicated and followed up.
- Reinforce and strengthen the IKEA culture in the store
- Ensure that the store represent an environment with both high job satisfaction and a high job commitment

Miscellaneous
- Contribute actively in various meeting
- Lead the HR team in different assignments, working efficient in an matrix organisation

**Qualifications**
LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES
- Develop the Business and Deliver Results

Focusing on and understanding the customers and their life at home, seeing the big picture as well as the details - both today and tomorrow. Making strategic choices and operational decisions to develop and drive our business to achieve the best possible results - with low cost and simplicity in mind.
- Lead and Develop People

Leading, managing and coaching co-workers, recognising competence and potential, empowering co workers to perform to the best of their abilities, and to continuously develop in their business assignments.
- Inspire and Clarify

Communicating; informing, influencing and actively listening. Responding in an honest and straightforward way to inspire, motivate and convey the vision. Ensuring clarity in the direction, the frameworks and goals, thereby creating meaning and commitment.
- Create Togetherness

Creating relationships where our assignments, competences and differences strengthen each other. Establishing an atmosphere of belonging and shared values to be able to say “we” as one IKEA.
- Find Better Ways

Creating a working environment where we use common sense, ask “why?” and challenge the established. Developing new ideas, and daring to do things differently - while embracing the good examples, and thereby finding - and sustaining - better ways of working.
- Enable Change

Creating a direction, planning, managing and coaching co-workers in understanding the why, moving from knowing to doing, thereby reaching the full potential of the change we aim for.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential:

- Understand and buy into company culture & values.
- Leadership earned through