Interior Design Co-worker

Who you are

As a person you are passionate about people, business, IKEA’s purpose and continuously driving better performance. You are energized by increasing customer value, driving business growth and contributing to overall success and results through people as well as motivated by leading and developing people. For this role we believe you have
- An education in interior design.
- Visual competence with a keen eye for aesthetics.
- Ability to generate new ideas and concepts.
- A passion for home furnishing, retailing, design and how people live at home.
- Able to draw, visualise and present ideas.
- Ability to work in a fast retail environment.
- Entusiastic about assignments and working with others in a team.
- Good attention to detail.
- Practical hands-on approach to work.
- Basic communication skills in English.
- Computer proficient with knowledge and experience of using relevant software (e.g. AutoCad).
- Retail and home furnishing experience.
- Experience of working with interior design in a retail environment.
- Home furnishing the IKEA way (living situations, style groups, store communication, furnish with light).
- Range presentation the IKEA way (layout as a commercial tool, store media, display techniques).
- Understand life at home in the local market and the outcome of market research, e.g. IKEA Customer Satisfaction Survey, IKEA Brand Capital.
- Understand interior design and trends that influence home furnishing.
- The work method for presenting the IKEA range
- Provide home furnishing solutions that improve people’s life at home.
- Constantly growing knowledge, capabilities and motivation.
- Driven to exceed goals and a desire to improve ways of working.

**Responsibilities**:
To create relevant, functional, aesthetic and commercial home furnishing solutions that contribute to positioning the IKEA Brand in the local market as the leader in life at home.
- Use home furnishing competence to create home furnishing solutions in room settings, homes, vignettes and sales support areas that reflect the IKEA identity.
- Actively contribute in the gathering of insights from home visit interviews and translating this knowledge into locally relevant, functional, aesthetic and commercial home furnishing solutions that exceed customer expectations and reflect home furnishing the IKEA way.
- Contribute to the creation of a Showroom matrix that reflects a wide variety of styles, living situations and price levels to create a good tempo with distinct visual impressions.
- Secure high quality, simplicity, efficiency and cost consciousness when planning and implementing all range presentation solutions using global tools and best practices.
- Stay up to date and knowledgeable about home furnishing, retailing and trends in order to contribute in workshops to generate creative ideas.
- Contribute to the content of the department action plan with initiatives that will grow the business and support long-term profitability and execute the agreed plans together with the Com&In team and other functions.
- Respect routines and responsibilities, work together with Com&In team and other functions, act quickly to exploit commercial opportunities and understand the impact of your actions on the financial results.
- Keep visitors in mind when working on the shop floor, ensure disruption is minimised and stay aware of the importance of safety and the visual impact for visitors at all times.

Together as a team

To inspire and surprise visitors by presenting and communicating the IKEA home furnishing offer with strong visual impressions that exceed visitors’ expectations. This will strengthen the IKEA Brand and convert more visitors into customers.