Al-Futtaim Hiring for Inventory Control Assistant Job at Dubai Full Time

Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world’s most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organization to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.

By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day

About you

You have a passion for logistics and to work in a fast-paced and constantly changing retail environment. You are driven to exceed goals through people. You have interest for home furnishing, people life at home, and the IKEA range.

What’s more, we believe that you have the following knowledge, capabilities and motivation:

• Live and share the IKEA values every day
• High School/Trade School Graduate
• 3 – 5 years Logistics, goods flow and supply chain management experience, IKEA experience preferred
• Knowledge of retail operations
• Advanced Computer skills (MS Office packages) and operating systems (Navision)
• Excellent written and verbal English
• Ability to manage a high-volume and vibrant retail environment.
• Personal Leadership & Interpersonal skills
• Strong Numerical ability
• Customer Focused

About the role

You will support the store and the inventory controller in his mission to accurately maintain the store inventory integrity and to provide the highest possible service levels to our internal and external customers.

Key Specific Accountabilities:

Operational

• Input data to maintain core systems and to ensure accurate and timely processing.
• Proactively recommend, support and embrace changes in the Service and assist in implementing innovative approaches to business process.
• Creating all container manifests for goods receiving and hand over manifest and labels to the checking team.
• Performing all system related goods receiving functions.
• Completing all system entries for internal transfers to the specified locations and bins on a daily basis.
• Creating a picking list and confirming all outbound shipments and preparing the necessary release documents after checking the physical stock.
• Sending orders to the retail warehouse.
• Sending all documentation to the sales team pertaining to in deliveries to prepare the sales space for replenishment.
• Provide support to the implementation of changes and improvements to the service.
• Filing of all documents for further reference as per audit guidelines

Commercial

• To work to agreed targets, reporting proactively to your line manager where deadlines are at risk and to agree priorities.
• Reporting all KPI’s to the inventory controller with regards to internal and external replenishment and exceptions noticed pertaining to the same.
• Provide support to the Physical Inventory Team during yearly Stock count.
• To work as part of ISL team, performing business processes for a defined service area ensuring quality, consistency, accuracy, timeliness and high performance.
• Support your line manager and team colleagues in providing a high quality, consistent, accurate and timely service to our customers.

About Al-Futtaim Retail

Al-Futtaim Retail has established itself as one of the leaders in Retail across the Middle East, Africa & Asia over the past 30 years. We have developed partnerships with some of the biggest and most respected Brands in the world including IKEA, ACE and Toys R Us in the Middle East and the Inditex Group of Brands (Zara, Mango, Bershka and P&B) across Asia. We are also one of the largest Global partners of Marks and Spencer’s in both regions with over 75 stores offering both fashion & food options.

Most recently we have been responsible for bringing brands to the Middle East for the first time with the exciting launches of Watsons and B&Q and we aim to continue to be agile and adaptive to our markets with new launches and further development. For this to be possible we aim to recruit the best talent from all backgrounds who will continue to challenge and develop our diverse workforce which includes over 100 nationalities across 12 countries. Join us today and make a difference…

About Al-Futtaim IKEA

GROWING TOGETHER…

We are a values-driven company with a passion for life at home. Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people.

Al-Futtaim IKEA holds the franchise rights for IKEA in Egypt, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.