Total 8 product specialist job vacancies in Quezon City, National Capital Region, Philippines

Your assignment
• Make the IKEA range compliant and sellable in the Philippines
• Lead contact with Philippine authorities to make the IKEA range available in all sales channels
• Support Sales function and report new market regulations to IKEA of SWEDEN
• Ensure that PH standards and labelling requirements are fulfilled
• Secure the company’s License to Operate with the Food and Drug Administration & other
regulatory bodies like DENR, NPQS

About the job

We want to fill this position with a hands-on and detailed individual who can support the needs of the business as we grow as an organization with various revenue channels and payment methods.

Your assignment

• Record import related transactions/invoices in accounting system and reconcile with payments and bank statements.
• Liaise with banks and vendors on payment related enquires
• Reconciliation of GL accounts, vendor balances and archive Accounting documents
• Assist in recording of journal entries in the accounting system and support in general accounting functions and tax reporting requirements
• Other ad hoc task as assigned

About the job

We want to fill this position with a strong contributor to the Human Resource function, securing HR subject matter expertise in Payroll, HR & Office Admin; someone who shares our vision of "creating a better everyday life for the many people.

Your assignment

• You will be reporting to the Payroll & HR Admin Manager, Philippines

• You are responsible for the centralised payroll and salary administration of co-workers; manage the year-end income tax activity and 13th month reporting with DOLE.

• You ensure payroll & HR practices are in compliance to the national legislation and timely submission of statutory related documents.

• You will participate on payroll audit and support the rewards team in external compensation and benefits-related surveys for market benchmarking.

• You will be involved in both HR Admin activities, from data management, recruitment, on boarding, benefits administration to off boarding and work-pass related matter which includes mobility support for our co-workers in Service Office.

• You will participate in continuous improvement projects related to payroll and HR Admin matter.

About the job

We want to fill this position with a hands-on and detailed individual who can support the needs of the business as we grow as an organization with various revenue channels and payment methods.

Your assignment

• Prepare and maintain prepayment amortization and accruals schedules and reconciliation schedules
• Reconcile monthly GL accounts and subledger balances (like inventory/prepayment/other assets/accruals)
• Assist in the review and submission of tax returns and supporting alphalist or reports
• Ensure timely, accurate and consistent compliance with the accounting standards and tax regulations of the recorded financial transaction
• Supporting the Finance Manager with the statutory audit process and preparation of the audited financial statements
• Support and provide training to Store/Service Office Finance relating to General Accounting or Tax reporting
• Archiving of Accounting documents

Other ad hoc task as assigned and support general accounting functions

About the job

The Loyalty Communications Specialist is responsible to use the IKEA business priorities, knowledge of range and markets to optimise loyalty development and performance across all functions in the Philippines. The Loyalty Communications Specialist is responsible to support the development of the loyalty program now & in the future thereby securing a high level of performance in the Philippines. By using data and insights from competence tools, the Loyalty Communications Specialist participates in developing a strategic approach to initiatives, tools and reporting methods used to unleash potential across the country.  Loyalty Communications Specialist will deliver trainings and knowledge transfer relating to IKEA Family Club in Ikano Retail.

Your assignment

• Responsible for the conceptualization of communications / content for IKEA FAMILY and småles members (to ensure they visit IKEA stores more frequently and buy more) and delivery of these communications to members.
• Secure that all loyalty communications content created by IKEA is compelling, meaningful, relevant, and creative executions are integrated, consistent and of high quality, delivering on set campaign objectives that secure alliance with IKEA brand values within visual and copy identity guidelines.
• Working closely with the Loyalty Manager, Commercial Activities, IKEA Food, Local Marketing Managers, and country marketing team to plan a loyalty communications calendar/brief as a base to develop communications materials for IKEA FAMILY and småles members.
• Responsible for conceptualizing aligned loyalty communications content that supports external comms campaign or collection launches, Loyalty campaigns for points/voucher redemptions, IKEA food and product offers for members for the country.
• Conceptualization of quarterly content and development of creatives for two editions of the småles newsletter (i.e., Bug News and Bug News Lite) for the country.
• Responsible for conceptualizing Club exp communication, community management and members acquisition and engagement.
• Contribute to the development of Loyalty Programme and other admin tasks:
• Provide support to the Local Marketing Managers with ad-hoc ideation of the småles initiatives to recruit more loyalty members, increase visits, and improve member engagement.
• Feedback on effectiveness of the country’s current CRM programme and share ideas with the Loyalty team and Local Marketing Managers to support future developments.
• Contribute to the accuracy of the loyalty budget, expense admin and monthly reconciliation with finance, etc.
• Responsible for securing partnerships with other brands for the IKEA FAMILY loyalty programme that benefits our members.
• Database preparation: For CRM365 -prepare ad hoc marketing lists in Click Dimensions or extract out for DM and SMS. For Legacy CRM -Extract leads from CRM, clean up the list before upload into Cheetah, send to vendors for DM and SMS blast.
• Work with Regional Loyalty Specialist and IT Operations for local bug fixing deployment and onsite testing (ad hoc).
• Work with Sales to secure smales merchandise from Children's range (4 times/year).
• Answering queries from CCC and CR in case of escalation. For Legacy CRM: support in crediting points in CRM system (ad hoc).
• Other administrative tasks: submit monthly liability report, send IKEA FAMILY batch card (2x /month), manage IKEA FAMILY voucher stock (only in Legacy CRM).
• Work on other tasks and projects as assigned that will contribute to the development of IKEA retail operations (i.e., global, regional, country, or local initiatives).
• Support building the sustainability perception via IKEA Family members.
• Support the Regional Loyalty Roadmap

About the job

Service Operations Specialist is responsible for supporting the market Service Fulfilment team by working with IT solutions on the market, developing tools, invoicing and creating various analyses to secure a high-performing organisation in the market service fulfilment network including:

• Daily operations for services connected to internal and external service partners
• Operational excellence
• Efficiency and continuous improvement
• Short and mid-term capacities
• Cost development and contribution to the cost goal
• Lead-time development
• Sustainability

Contribute to the operations and development of the Service Fulfilment organisation with a customer-centric and collaborative approach in focus. Focus on delivering results with the sense of urgency, achieving and exceeding operational goals and higher efficiency on daily tasks. Provide a subject matter expertise and advice to business leaders within Service Fulfilment processes that will contribute to the development of business and people. Implement, assess standards, guidelines and policies within the own area of expertise and contribute to their development and update.

Your assignment

• Responsible for creating performance reports from IT solutions to enable a high performing daily operation and an efficient distribution network connected to service fulfilment including capacity utilization, delivery performance and shipment life cycle with a focus on quality and a customer-centric collaborative mind-set to enable competitiveness of IKEA in a multichannel environment and support long-term growth and profitability.
• Responsible to secure excellence in operations and quality under the scope of Service Fulfilment on the market through securing proper system setup for services, monitoring and reporting and clear connected communication with service partners to exceed customer expectations, provide seamless shopping experience and a great quality in meeting with the customer.
• Contribute to short-, and mid-term development of existing service partners through trainings in relevant IT solutions and for providing first line IT support towards service partners in daily business to secure that the service partners have the knowledge to perform their tasks to represent IKEA well and provide and excellent quality in the meeting with the customer.
• Responsible to define and maintain short and mid-term service and capacity parameters based on available forecasts.
• Responsible for securing accurate reporting of service costs through efficient and accurate reconciliation of invoicing of contract costs and connected analysis.
• Contribute to securing efficiency and implementing improvements on the market by supporting the development of operational processes and developing tools and ways of working in line with daily operational requirements in cooperation with relevant stakeholders to reach excellence in execution and exceed customer expectations.
• Identify, assess and in cooperation with the Ikea for Business Country Manager, select potential partners as needed for expansion of IB’s service offer.
• Throughout the process of fulfilment, always keep the customers updated on the position of delivery and ensure the quality of all information being passed on.
• Oversee the interface between IB and SSS, to ensure clarity and alignment of all parts of the supply chain.
• In coordination and cooperation with sales management, ensure that after-sales services related to fulfilment are done with precision and to the highest possible standard.
• Support Service Fulfilment developers in tender activities.

About the job

To be part of the finance organisation in IKEA Philippines supporting Service Office by that support the growth of IKEA businesses by ensuring accurate and timely work practices on:

• Processing and payment of invoices from local and foreign vendors and reimbursements to co-workers.
• Tax recording and remittances on local and foreign payments.

Your assignment

• Verify invoices and billings to ensure correctness and completeness of supporting documents (e.g. billing/sales invoice, receipt, purchase order) prior to payment processing.
• Prepare and ensure timely payments to local and foreign vendors including co-worker's claims.
• Liaise with vendors on payment related enquires.
• Liaise with banks for any issues related to payment.
• Prepare and ensure accurate and timely preparation and payment of monthly/quarterly tax returns and reconcile with the book.
• Reconcile payments and perform monthly bank reconciliations.
• Generate vendor aging report and follow up long outstanding invoices.
• Reconciliation of monthly GL accounts and vendor balances.
• Assist Assistant Finance Manager/Finance Manager in the preparation of monthly reports and audit schedules.
• Support and provide training to Store Accounting Assistant in handling Store payables functions.
• Other ad hoc task as assigned and support general accounting/accounts payable functions.

About the job

We want to fill this position with a hands-on and detailed individual who can support the needs of the business as we grow as an organization with various revenue channels and payment methods.

Your assignment

• Record import related transactions/invoices in accounting system and reconcile with payments and bank statements.
• Liaise with banks and vendors on payment related enquires
• Reconciliation of GL accounts, vendor balances and archive accounting documents
• Assist in recording of journal entries in the accounting system and support in general accounting functions and tax reporting requirements
• Other ad hoc task as assigned