Interior Design Leader

Who you are
- You are passionate about fashion, design, creative thinking and home

furnishing trends
- You have experience in Interior Design, visual merchandising or similar and delivering results
- In addition, you have experience from retail, preferably home furnishing sector,

as well as experience in planning, driving output and measuring performance (business)
- You have broad knowledge of project management and of online customer behaviors as well as of customers' living situations, their life styles and their needs and frustrations in their everyday life at home
- You also possess broad knowledge of trends that influence home furnishing, retail design and communication to gain insight to a more appealing product presentation for customers as well as of how to steer the customer to right product or service for their needs
- Finally, you have good knowledge of change management methods/tools and stakeholder management as well as of the methods for presenting the range and service range using store media, display techniques and store layout as commercial tools
- You have ability to understand the complexity of IKEA business and the role of Commercial as an integrated part of the business
- You have good leadership capabilities including ability to not only lead yourself but to lead also peers and stakeholders while communicating in an inspirational way combined with a strong ability to communicate and share creative ideas, concepts and solutions

**A day in your life with us**
- You are responsible for leading home furnishing and life at home knowledge on local market and creating a dialogue with customers
- You are responsible for coaching Interior Design co-workers and designing outstanding home furnishing solutions to create a better life at home for the many and therefore drive the Home furnishing movement
- You will inspire and challenge the Interior Design co-workers to strengthen the uniqueness of the IKEA identity in range presentation and home furnishing solutions through home furnishing knowledge in all channels
- You will support the onboarding and coaching of the co-workers (B2B/B2C)
- You are speaking partner and matrix for all local IB Designers and HF consultants
- Together with Service Business and Selling, you lead the development of a seamless customer experience for the total design service offer (B2B/B2C)
- You actively support in the development of the country business plan and HF&RD (Home Furnishing & Retail Design) action plan with interior design initiatives that are focused on growing the business and support long term profitability
- You are responsible for tailoring and completing inspiring, relevant and affordable interior design solutions through guidelines and leading development projects together with stores for non-standard components to drive demand for IKEA products
- You develop and adapt interior design solutions for market and unit specific needs within and outside the traditional customer base and opportunities in line with local commercial priorities and common guidelines
- You contribute to create additional market specific content across channels (e.g. social media posts, promotion content etc.), based on brief from Communications or Marketing and Commercial Calendar related Activities and Events
- You continuously measure performance of product presentation to contribute to the functional review in order to identify improvement areas
- You act as a member of the HF&RD team and proactively contribute to HF&RD plan/output in order to deliver to the common objectives and goals

**About this work area**

We offer you
- All the opportunities of a globally successful and growing company: We provide a wide variety of career paths for you at IKEA
- A company that promotes talent with plenty of support for personal development
- A working environment that honors your work-life balance
- Fair pay and a full benefits package - full thirteenth salary, holiday pay, company pension and a lot more besides
- Co-worker discount and a share in our company’s achievements with a bonus and loyalty program