Job ID: 264705

Publicatiedatum: 15/11/2024

Why we will love you

We're looking for an experienced visual merchandiser, who can inspire and surprise our customers by presenting and communicating the IKEA home furnishing offer through inspirational, functional, and aesthetic range presentations and can share our home furnishing knowledge by contributing and participating in events and activities, workshops, Instagram, Live shopping etc.
• You have a high passion for creating inspiring store solutions for an easy and convenient shopping experience and increasing vitality by translating deep knowledge about consumer buying behavior, store layout, range presentation, and local market knowledge.
• You are innovative and dare to challenge yourself to visualize and communicate the width and depth of our range.
• You are easy to adapt to changes and able to act quickly to exploit commercial opportunities.
• You have a desire to contribute to developing ways of working and can combine commercial and aesthetic skills to present the IKEA product range in a way that drives sales
To succeed in this assignment, you will contribute to togetherness; build strong relationships, collaborate, and co-create with your many colleagues with your creative mindset. You can make things happen with flexibility, speed, and simplicity.

Your responsibilities

Your responsibilities will also include:
• Use visual merchandising competence to strengthen the uniqueness of the IKEA identity in range presentation solutions in the store by working with the store layout, range presentation, and vitality.
• Actively contributing to gathering insight about store layout and range presentation and translating this knowledge into relevant and inspiring store solutions that will support a convenient shopping experience and reflect the local needs in life at home.
• Use home furnishing skills to communicate and share your home furnishing knowledge with our customers (home visits, Instagram, events, etc.)
• Secure high quality, simplicity, efficiency, and cost consciousness in planning and implementing all range presentations by applying national and global tools and best practices.
• Secure vitality and seasonality in the store by creating and implementing a store commercial calendar

Together as a team

You will become part of a strong team in our Communication & Interior Design function, consisting of graphic designers, interior designers, visual merchandisers, apprentices, and leaders. While others see furniture, we see smart home furnishing solutions that can create a better everyday life for many people. With passion and imagination, we transform colors, textiles, and furniture into inspiring environments that surprise and convince our customers. We work closely with other departments every day, giving you experience in collaborating with many different people. We are an international team with a strong sense of unity, where we support each other and work together. There is therefore room to be exactly who you are. We provide the right training so you can feel confident and competent in the job. At IKEA, you have endless opportunities for development.

Questions and support? Let's connect!

If you have questions or inquiries, you're welcome to contact Manager Maiko at maiko.okada@ingka.ikea.com. Please notice that we do not receive applications via e-mail but only through our recruitment portal.

Further Information

• The position is 37 hours per week on average
• You will primarily work within the hours of 08:00AM - 16:00PM Monday to Friday. Evening and weekend work may occur
• We offer various employee benefits, including a pension plan, health insurance, massage program, canteen, employee discount, discount agreements with partners, annual gift etc.
• Start date is as early as possible
• We have an ongoing interview process and reserve the right to close the job when we have received enough qualified candidates.

Like homes, talent is also diverse, and in IKEA we have a passion for real people. When applying for jobs, some are discouraged if they do not meet every single competence area, but please feel free to still apply. We would love to get to know you as there is a wide range of opportunities in IKEA, based on desire, ability, and experience. We hope you will join us on this adventure and we are looking forward to hearing from you!