Store Interior Design Co-worker, IKEA Kållered

Why we would love you
We are at the beginning of a new journey to try something different at IKEA. You see, we constantly challenge ourselves to become greater home furnishing experts. Our mission will be to inspire customers with home furnishing solutions that appeal to the dreams, needs and wallets of the many people.
You will work as an Interior and Design Co-worker within the Communication and Interior design department (Com&In) of the IKEA Kållered store. At times you may be contributing to another store in your region or be an important part of a larger project in an IKEA market outside your region.
We will love you if you are a person who:
• is passionate about home furnishing, trends, people’s life at home and the IKEA product range.
• enjoys the mix between working at a desk, using screwdrivers, paint brushes and climbing ladders, as well as answering customers that might ask you about where to find BILLY bookshelf. In short you are a person to count on getting the job done.
• is fascinated by retail environment, who enjoys fast-paced working environment, where decisions are taken here and now, and actions are done in a day. In short you want your every day to be different.
• loves meeting new people, new places, new assignments, is open to new ways, ideas and concepts and can inspire people through our values. In short you love being curious.
• can navigate well around flexibility and ambiguity and have the skills to prioritize and organize own work as well as influence others to meet deadlines. In short you have leadership skills.
• wants to grow with IKEA and can see a future with us for years to come. If you grow, IKEA grows!
• is an inspiring and motivating person with the security of verbally expressing and explaining our concept and assortment presentation to others.
• has experience from similar assignments within retail or similar business, with relevant education within interior design.
• masters Revit as well as the Office suite.
Your responsibilities
You are creative, willing to learn and work with colleagues, eager to create inspiring range presentations solutions, always with the IKEA conceptual framework as guiding star. You bring your talent, your curiosity and home furnishing passion, we add on the IKEA concept and together we take IKEA and you to the next level.
Your main tasks will be offering our visitors of IKEA Kållered store the most inspiring shopping experience, meaning working with interior design in room settings while always presenting our range in a commercial and inspiring way. The purpose of all the work you will do is to appeal to the needs and dreams of the many people.
When working within Com&In department you will collaborate a lot with colleagues in your department as well as sales and logistics. It is in this intersection we together create not only esthetically appealing solutions, but also commercial and easily maintainable. We are after all in the retail business. This gives an opportunity for you to deepen your expertise even further and become more commercial.
If you are involved in projects outside your region, you will get an opportunity to develop valuable networks, accelerate your personal development and widen as well as deepen your current expertise considerably.
QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT? LET'S CONNECT!
The positions are fulltime, both permanent and temporary. The temporary position will last for approximately 6 moths. Start according to agreement. We are mainly working office hours (Mon-Fri 07.00-16.00), however sometimes the work might include evenings and weekends.
Home furnishing expertise, commercial approach and alignment with our values is something we treasure highly at IKEA. If you have leaderships skills and want to develop even further as a future leader, great!
If this sounds interesting, then please apply. We want to find and hire the perfect candidate and we also understand that you are in a similar situation looking for a great employer, lets explore this further together, through an interview process.
The interview process has 4 steps:
We screen your personal letter, CV and carefully read your typed answers to a few complementary questions. Please take your time with the question since we rely a lot on these answers. If you have a portfolio then please feel free to attach it with your application. If you are selected after step 1, step 2 will happen.
We send you an invitation with recorded questions, you answer by recording yourself while answering, you can use pretty much any device. Please keep in mind that we are more interested in your answers, not whether you have recently shaved or are having a bad hair day. If you are selected after this step, you will move on the step 3.
You finally (keeping our fingers crossed) get to meet us and participate in a competency assessment as well as answering our interview questions. Please also prepare with your own set of questions so you can assess us as your future employer as well.
Finally, congratulations you made it, the last step is to accept terms and sign contract with us, we are looking forward to having you as an IKEA colleague as soon as possible.

Invitations to interviews (step 3) will most likely be sent out with short notice and we truly appreciate your cooperation & understanding for this. Interviews (still step 3) are planned to be held between week 51 (2021) and week 2 (2022).
All applications must be submitted via IKEAs website and we appreciate your application as soon as possible, but please no later than 2021-12-15.