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Ikano Retail

Retail and consumer solutions provider

Junior Sales Specialist - IKEA for Business

Account ExecutivePosted on Nov 9
Full-timeMorelia, Michoacán, MexicoNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 1–3 years of experience selling to professional customers, preferably in interior furnishings or related industries.
  • Experience communicating professionally with corporate customers and experience in sales and client relationships at executive level.
  • Broad knowledge of optimizing customer experience across physical and digital touchpoints.
  • Strong stakeholder relationship-management skills.
  • Time-management and organizational skills, including prioritizing and adapting in dynamic environments.
  • Knowledge of database analysis, structuring, and management.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Fluency in spoken and written English.
  • Commercial, negotiation, and customer-orientation skills.
  • Ability to work proactively and autonomously as well as collaboratively.
  • Commitment to IKEA culture and values, integrity, and willingness to share knowledge and support others.

Responsibilities

  • Build the company’s reputation for professional, timely customer service by creating a comprehensive, satisfying experience across customer touchpoints.
  • Develop, establish, and verify opportunities through active prospecting to support regional sales management activities.
  • Maximize sales for IKEA for Business by applying knowledge of the product range, local market, customers, store layout, IKEA digital tools, and colleagues’ expertise.
  • Support the efficient operation of IKEA’s sales system and the ongoing execution and success of the IKEA concept.
  • Learn product features and benefits and proactively share product knowledge with customers and colleagues.
  • Apply expertise in the assigned area to identify business opportunities.
  • Know best-selling products, strategic product families, and the “4 Aces and 1 King”; promote alternatives when products are unavailable.
  • Monitor stock and supply status for best-selling products and IKEA for Business functions, and guide sales toward products with good availability.
  • Know the store’s IKEA for Business services and help customers make informed purchase decisions.
  • Ask relevant questions to understand customer needs and provide accurate information and suggestions throughout the purchasing process.
  • Follow the department’s work routines.
  • Manage and maintain regional inbound leads through IKEA for Business’s designated website, email, and/or contact number.
  • Proactively identify and contact prospective customers.
  • Identify new leads for specific IKEA verticals in Mexico when requested by the IKEA for Business leader.
  • Analyze market trends, sales records, and customer needs to provide timely, reliable information to support the country sales team.
  • Prepare and follow up on IKEA for Business quotations based on customer needs.
  • Track and ensure fulfillment of all IKEA for Business customer orders.
  • Lead execution of IKEA for Business orders with support from fulfillment functions.
  • Process invoices for IKEA for Business store orders.
  • Encourage frontline colleagues and model a positive mindset of accountability, care, and customer service.
  • Lead and follow up on IKEA for Business after-sales service matters with support from customer-relations functions.

Desired Qualifications

  • Sales experience with professional customers, preferably in interior furnishings or related industries.

About the Company

Ikano Retail

Retail and consumer solutions provider

Ikano Retail is part of Ikano Group, an international company network with about 8,000 employees across 11 countries. It operates in real estate, production, insurance, data analytics and retail, and focuses on making everyday life easier by providing relevant, affordable, and sustainable solutions built on fair terms. The company works by developing and delivering services and products across its diverse businesses to meet people’s needs and simplify their lives. What sets Ikano apart from competitors is its family-owned heritage (owned by the Kamprad family) and its broad, multi-sector approach that ties real estate, manufacturing, finance, data analytics and retail together under a shared mission, aiming for long-term sustainability rather than a single-product focus. Ikano’s goal is to create possibilities for better living for many people through collaboration and fair, affordable, sustainable solutions.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Luxembourg
Founded
1988

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