Graphic Design Specialist

WHY WE WILL LOVE YOU
Your ideas matter. Your eye for detail matters. Your voice matters. As a member of the Home Furnishing & Retail Design team, you will contribute to the creation and presentation of global retail solutions. These solutions include quarterly launches, events, space design, and experience design. You create exciting graphics that inspire and drive visitors. More importantly, you are comfortable taking the creative lead on topics and bringing bold ideas! Bring your talent. The whole world is waiting. We are creating solutions for a new retail reality and a new era and are constantly exploring more topics. You will heavily contribute to ideas about life-at-home solutions.
Are you passionate about people´s life at home and home furnishing? Do you find it motivating to contribute to a fast-paced, future-oriented retailing organisation and the unique IKEA product range? Then go ahead and have a closer look at this opportunity!
To succeed in this role, you have proven advanced training in Interior Management, Interior Design, Art & Design or have a minimum of 5 years working experience with Home Furnishing & Retail Design Solution Development. You possess strong graphic design skills and would proudly showcase your portfolio of previous work. You are strong in project management and naturally apply strategic thinking in your everyday life. You have acquired an expert level in motion graphics 2D and 3D throughout the years and have proven advanced training in Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
Furthermore, you have knowledge in the following areas:
· Best practices for creating, publishing and editing content from a customer centric point of view
· Structuring and presenting information in all touchpoints that makes sense to end user
· Writing, structuring and editing business publications in English for print and digital media
· Trends that influence home-furnishing, retail design and communication
You’ve got an aesthetic eye and love working with visual content – from pictures and graphics to videos and motion graphics. You’re also passionate about layout, visual impression and the user. You love the IKEA graphic language and can communicate concepts visually. You create visual identity content, descriptions, and collages—always with the user in mind. You can forge emotional connections in a home furnishing context.


A DAY IN YOUR LIFE WITH US
The graphic design team delivers print and digital graphical concepts that inspire, inform and captivate customers. This team is a part of the Retail Solutions team which also includes interior design and shop design. You will be responsible for designing both the physical and digital graphical concept of the design solutions to inspire, inform and captivate consumers. You will achieve this by, mainly, focusing on below areas.
You will create visual concepts to communicate IKEA ideas to consumers. You will develop communication carriers that identify the IKEA home furnishing unique offer, convey retail design messages, support our range presentation and verbalize our strategy. Moreover, you will create graphic design that illustrate the IKEA offer in an innovative way. To enable and ensure excellent graphic design you will outline templates and actively develop new content formats and graphic communication assets. New ways of reaching out to users digitally and physically within the Graphic Design field, to engage customers in every touchpoint and throughout the Customer Experience Journey, will always be on the agenda!
Furthermore, you will be producing and editing printed and digital publications ensuring the publications meet the Inter IKEA Systems B.V. written communication standards and IKEA tone of voice.
Finally, collaborating across different functions within INGKA Group and different IKEA businesses units will be essential to secure the business growth plan and ensure that all departments that touches the customers journey work in unison identifying customers’ needs and preferences.


ABOUT THIS WORK AREA
The mission of Home Furnishing & Retail Design is to enable extraordinary growth in a new era of meeting the customer. We support and empower the markets to realize a simple, unique, and seamless meeting. We provide the markets with an economy of scale and exceptional quality through common solutions for all. We work for efficiency and effectiveness.


QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT? LET’S CONNECT!
If you have questions regarding the role, please connect with recruiter Julia.schnittger@ingka.ikea.com. Please send in your application to Julia, together with a CV, motivation letter and briefly tell us why you are right for this role. We will continuously review applications and encouraging you to apply as soon as possible.
Also, ensure to include your portfolio in your application, or a link to your portfolio, as we would love to see examples of your previous work!
We are looking forward to receiving your application!