Job-ID: 265603

Dato for opslag: 08/11/2024

Who you are

Hej!

I’m Izabela Kaminska, Country Interior Design Manager for IKEA Sweden and I am currently looking to recruit an Interior Design Leader to our team!
I am looking for a daring, creative and extrovert leader with strong influential skills and passion for driving the business and Interior Design direction into the future of IKEA.

For this role you will be an accomplished Interior Designer with proven experience of working within the retail, as well as experienced in planning, driving output and measuring performance. You should be knowledgeable about people’s life at home – their needs and frustrations. You should also have a good understanding of trends that influence home furnishing and retail design to be able to translate these to a more appealing range presentation for customers across different channels.
Further, you should have a broad knowledge of the omnichannel and online reality and its effects on retail.

To be successful, you will have a proven track of leadership, are passionate about people, their development and growth, as well as be able to drive others’ creativity and motivate to achieve high results. Coaching, mentoring and teaching are natural for you!
You will be a creative leader able to clearly communicate and share ideas, concepts as well as identify business opportunities.

Knowledge of written and spoken English is essential.

Your responsibilities

In the role as Country Interior Design Leader, you are responsible for influencing and coaching Interior Design co-workers and other leaders, designing outstanding home furnishing solutions to stimulate life at home interest across different channels.

You will:
- Influence, inspire and challenge the Interior Design co-workers to strengthen the uniqueness of the IKEA identity in range presentation and home furnishing.
- Encourage and inspire Interior Design co-workers, leaders and peers to improve their knowledge of people's life at home, retailing and trends.
- Contribute to create additional market specific content across all channels.
- Be responsible for tailoring and completing inspiring, relevant and affordable interior design solutions.

You will also:
- Be responsible for developing and adapting interior design solutions for market and unit specific needs within and outside the traditional customer base.
- Continuously measure performance of product presentation and be able to identify improvement areas.
- Actively cooperate with all key stakeholders within the organisation to secure integration, common focus and to maximise impact of common goals.

In this role you will report to the country Interior Design Manager for IKEA Retail Sweden. In the closest team you will work together with 2 other ID leaders.

About this work area

Where others see home furnishing products, we see smart solutions to create a better everyday life. With a great deal of passion, imagination and brainstorming we turn colour, textiles and furniture into inspiring environments that excite, engage and convince IKEA visitors that they can do it too!

Questions and support? Let's connect!

This role is fulltime, permanent and located at Service Office, Helsingborg. Start acc to agreement.

If you have job specific questions please contact Izabela Kaminska, Izabela.kaminska@ikea.com.
If you have questions about the recruitment process, contact Johan Rosengren, johan.rosengren3@ingka.ikea.com.

Please don't hesitate to send in your application as soon as possible (recruitment closes 22 November), since we will be reviewing applications continuously.

We are looking forward getting to know you soon!