Store Visual Merchandiser Manager, IKEA Haparanda-Tornio

You are the one who longs for a place to grow and dreams of adventure both in your private life and within IKEA. We at IKEA Haparanda-Tornio have that space for you, just under the northern lights.
At IKEA Haparanda-Tornio, there is a Visual Merchandiser team looking for their new manager. The team is junior with a fantastic team spirit where they lift each other to succeed together. Therefore, they are looking for a competent Visual Merchandiser manager who has a coaching way to take us together to the finish line.
But can you really make a career, while working in a calm idyll in the middle of the woods in the north of Sweden? In Haparanda-Tornio you can! In the north, at the most eastern part of Sweden, where the large forest areas meet the sea and rushing rivers, you have Sweden's most international IKEA department store. Here, next to the border of four countries, about 250 co-workers work together to make everyday life better for people in different cultures. And more companies are expanding in the Haparanda-Tornio area!
This makes IKEA Haparanda-Tornio the perfect workplace to be both close to nature and at the same time feel the vibrations from five different cultures and get the opportunity to work for one of Sweden's largest companies.

A day in your life with us
As a Visual Merchandiser Manager you will join us with our mission; inspire customers with home furnishing solutions that appeal to the dreams, needs and wallets of the many people.
Your main tasks will be, together with your Visual Merchandiser team offering our visitors the most inspiring shopping experience, meaning working with visual merchandising, 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 in our local Market IKEA Haparanda-Tornio area.
You will collaborate a lot with colleagues in your department (Interior Design and Graphic communication) as well as all other functions in the store (Sales, Logistic and Customer experience and FOOD), you see 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 and work according to season.
We will love you if you are a person who:
You are creative, willing to learn and work with colleagues, eager to create an inspiring range of presentations and solutions, always with the IKEA conceptual framework as a guiding star
is fascinated by retail environment, who enjoys fast pace working environments, where decisions are taken here and now, and actions are done in a day. In short you want your every day to be different.
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.
Love leading people, create team spirit and by coaching lifting the team members to their next level.



During a working week, you will be able to take concrete action and already at the end of the same week see how your store layout affects both our customer flows and sales management. Above all, you will feel a team spirit and maybe come up with something together with your colleagues after work.
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.
About this work area
We are looking for you who have experience or education in Visual Merchandising. We would like you to have leadership experience or a pronounced potential to lead others and see this as your first step to developing your leadership.
Our offer is a position as a permanent Visual Merchandiser Manager at IKEA Haparanda-Tornio. With 6 months probationary period if you are new to IKEA. You work 40h/week between 08-17. Some evenings and weekends you will work as the department store jour between 09.30-19. You have personnel responsibility for a team of 5 Visual Merchandiser co-workers.
At IKEA, we have benefits in the form of staff discounts, wellness allowances, health accounts and bonus programs for all our employees.
The offer that IKEA primarily offers you is a workplace where there is a strong belief in you as an employee. We are a workplace where there are different ways to grow. You're encouraged to try out different work roles, try out different functions, and even move abroad (if you want). Your goal, your path and how you get there is up to you. Because as our employees grow, IKEA also grows
Apply!
The recruitment process has 4 steps:
1. We screen your personal letter, CV and carefully read your typed answers to a few complementary questions
2. We send you an invitation with recorded questions in English, you answer by recording yourself while answering in English, 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.
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.
4. 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.
We appreciate your application in English as soon as possible, but please no later than 24 april 2022. Invitations to interviews (step 3) will most likely be sent out with short notice and we truly appreciate your cooperation & understanding for this. We will interview on a ongoing basis (still step 3) but are planned to be no earlier than 18 april 2022.
Questions and support
For questions regarding the job, please contact Frida Spegel, frida.spegel@ingka.ikea.com
For questions regarding the process, please contact Sara Byström Abony, sara.bystrom.abony@ingka.ikea.com
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