Jochem Coljee Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam, Nh, Nl

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

Responsible for the daily operation in the 35 CASA stores (300 co-workers) in the Netherlands. Manager for 2 sales area managers and the HR-department in the Netherlands. The role reports to the board of CASA International in Belgium. Leadership role with focus on a strong and qualitative implementation of the CASA concept in the stores and in supporting, developing and leading the storemanagers and the teams in the stores. Achieving good results by setting a clear direction, making sure the noses are in the same direction, setting a strong commercial focus and by improving trust and the cooperation with the storemanagers and storeteams. On our way to y-o-y growth and on our way to making CASA NL profitable. Winner of the Retailer of the Year award 2021 in the home furnishing category

Storewide responsibility for sales, the salesteam and the total commercial organisation in the store Utrecht. Leading a team of 10 sales team-managers (direct reports) and 145 co-workers (indirect). Leadership focused role in which developing the business & delivering result, coaching of team and individual and steering a well-structured and organised sales operation are the main tasks. Additional activities:- Country reviewer/auditor of commerciality, ways of working and implementation of IKEA concept in other store (since 2013) - Country ‘train the trainer’ of the Active Selling salesprogram (since 2014)- Country trainer for the ‘shopkeeper training’ a 9-day IKEA concept and retail training for new sales teammanagers. (since 2012)

Country responsible and regional manager for productgroups livingroom and workspace furniture. Driver seat position as a strategic category manager: responsibility for trend-, market- and competitor analysis, price setting (margin/profit), setting up and execution of promotions, product communication and sales trainings on national level. Follow-up through frequent store visits with focus on customer experience and business performance as regional manager. Sparring partner and main contact person for team- and salesmanagers of 13 stores and webshop.

See description of Salesmanager at IKEA Utrecht. In this job also acted as projectleader for the complete showroom rebuild in IKEA Amsterdam (6500m2)

Traineeship towards becoming Salesmanager

Daily operational steering of the salesteam and salesresults of the livingroom furniture department consisting of 15 to 20 co-workers

Daily operational steering of a sales and/or customer service team. Responsibility for 10 to 20 co-workers

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