Interior Design Specialist for Home Furnishing & Retail Design

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 layouts and visuals 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 a creative mind, or even a creative leader, that has the ambition for trendsetting with home furnishing solutions that lead the way? Do you find it motivating to contribute to a fast-paced, future-oriented retailing organization? Are you a passionate about home furnishing, life at home and cannot wait to support others with your interior design knowledge and expertise? Go ahead and have a closer look at this opportunity!
You demonstrate leadership and are excited to lead projects of different scales. You communicate and collaborate with ease. You inspire, engage and build trust with a wide range of stakeholders. You respond actively to change and strive to perform with high standards in a fast-paced and agile environment. You are a self-starter who takes ownership. You are willing to drive initiatives and further develop ways of working, formats and concepts. Most importantly, you are true role model for our culture and values.
To succeed in this role, you have at least 5 years’ experience of working as an Interior Design Specialist/Leader. You are well familiar with home furnishing, retail design solution development and have preferable experience from working with the IKEA range presentation. You possess strong and senior interior design skills and would proudly showcase your portfolio of previous work. Furthermore, you are strong in project management and can initiate, plan, execute, control and close cross-functional projects. You have proven training in programs such as AutoCAD 3d, REVIT and Sketchup, and a strong analytical mindset. You are fluent in English, both verbal and in writing.
You do also have knowledge about:
· Trends that influence home furnishing, retail design and communication.
· Creative leading skills
· Methods for presenting the range, display techniques and store layout.
· The IKEA visual and verbal identity in order to facilitate the creation of commercial environment with a distinct brand impression

YOUR RESPONSABILITITES
The interior design team delivers outstanding home furnishing solutions on a yearly basis to stimulate interest in life at home. This team is a part of the Retail Solutions team which also includes shop and graphic design. As an Interior Design Specialist, your main task is to design outstanding home furnishing (store) solutions to stimulate the life at home interest for our visitors and potential customers. Together with colleagues in our 30 markets, you will strengthen the uniqueness of the IKEA identity in range presentation and home furnishing solutions such as room settings, homes, vignettes and sales support areas. In addition, you will also be involved in different projects together with the markets and secure local market needs. 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.
This is a permanent role, located in Malmö at our office in Hyllie, “Hubhult”. You will report to the Interior Design Manager, Enrique Mozos.

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 any questions regarding the recruitment process or other practicalities, please get in touch with recruiter Caroline Årzén, caroline.arzen@ingka.ikea.com. Please send in your application together with a CV, motivation letter and briefly tell us why you are right for this role. We will continuously review applications, hence encouraging you to apply as soon as possible. Please not that we also will be interviewing on a regular basis. We are looking forward to receiving your application!