KEA is all about people, and the visual merchandising team inspires 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.

To create 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 thereby contributing to positioning the IKEA Brand in the local market as the home furnishing specialist and the IKEA store as an up-to-date and innovative destination that always offers something new.

Key Assignments: 

• Use visual merchandising competence to strengthen the uniqueness of the IKEA identity in range presentation solutions in the store by working with store layout, range presentation, and vitality.
• Actively contribute to the department action plan with initiatives that will grow the business and support long-term profitability and execute the agreed plans in close cooperation with other functions.
• Use the knowledge of people's needs and dreams in the local market to plan and implement relevant, inspiring, affordable, and commercial range presentation solutions that reflect a wide variety of styles, and price levels, meet the many individual tastes, and exceed our visitor's expectations.
• Keep visitors in mind when working on the shop floor, minimize disruption, and remain aware at all times of the importance of safety and the visual impact on visitors.
• Respect routines and responsibilities, work together with the team and other functions, act quickly to exploit commercial opportunities, and understand the impact of actions on the financial results.
• Secure high quality, simplicity, efficiency and cost consciousness in planning and implementing all range presentation solutions by applying national directions and using global tools, proven solutions, and best practices.
• Actively contribute to gathering insights 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 of life at home.
• Stay up to date with knowledge about home furnishing, retailing, and trends to generate creative directions that inspire and surprise visitors with a strong visual impression.
• Any security breaches must be notified concerned authority and manager.
• Be aware of all security-related emergency responses and follow the policy and procedures.

Skills

Qualifications

• Experience working with visual merchandising in the retail environment.
• Good attention to detail.
• Practical hands-on approach to work.
• Basic communication skills in English.
• Computer proficiency with knowledge and experience in using relevant software (e.g. AutoCad)
• Understand life at home in the local market and the outcome of market research,.
• Understand trends that influence home furnishing and retailing.
• Understanding of commercial calendar and store activities.
• Passionate about 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