Visual Merchandising and Home Furnishing Manager Job at IKEA (Granada)

Visual Merchandising Manager

IKEA Belfast are looking to welcome a Visual Merchandising Manager. This is a fu...

Location

United Kingdom , Belfast

Salary:

31940.00 GBP / Year

IKEA

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Leadership and visual merchandising experience in a home furnishing retail environment
Passion for home furnishings and a customer focused mindset
Interior design-based education and knowledge in design software such as Autodesk REVIT, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office (not essential)
Confidence to express ideas and opinions effectively through effective interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to assist, support and develop in a innovative environment
Skills needed to devise and implement action plans, set expectations, provide clear direction and follow up goals
Effective problem-solving and decision-making abilities
Working withing budgets and timelines

Job Responsibility

Lead and inspire the Visual Merchandising/Activity team to use knowledge of IKEA home furnishing and people's life at home to grow the business
Turn insights from home visit interviews into functional, beautiful and commercially smart home‑furnishing solutions that inspire customers the IKEA way
Act quickly to capitalise on commercial opportunities, maintaining deep and up-to-date knowledge about home furnishing, retailing and trends
Ensure the team always keep visitors in mind, disruption is minimised and communicate changes when working on the shop floor
Securing the use of the store layout as a commercial tool to plan and implement commercial strategies throughout the store
Be responsible for the recruitment and competence development of the team
Contributing to positioning the IKEA store as the first choice for home furnishing in your local market

What we offer

Flexibility to match your life and our business needs

Fulltime

Store Visual Merchandising Manager

Location

Italy , Villesse, Gorizia

Salary:

Not provided

IKEA

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Education in Visual Merchandising, Interior or Industrial Design, and experience working as a Visual Merchandiser
Ability to inspire, motivate and engage people to achieve goals and drive business growth
A proactive approach to continuous improvement, encouraging innovation and new ideas
A passion for home furnishing and a strong understanding of how people live at home
Knowledge of the IKEA Concept and mechanical sales system
Strong leadership, communication and organizational skills
Good command of both English and Italian

Job Responsibility

Position IKEA as the first choice for home furnishing in your local market
Create inspiring and functional home furnishing solutions that improve people’s life at home
Use the store layout as a commercial tool to plan and implement strategies that ensure a clear overview and strong visual impact
Recruit, develop and lead your team, fostering growth and collaboration
Contribute to the department action plan and implement range presentation and vitality initiatives that support business growth and long-term profitability
Identify and act on commercial opportunities, helping your team understand how visual merchandising actions influence business results
Ensure that range presentation solutions are implemented with high quality, simplicity and efficiency, applying global guidelines and best practices

What we offer

Structured HR processes to support you in your growth (onboarding, training, coaching sessions, internal recruitment opportunities, etc)
Wellbeing Offering, including an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that provides you with immediate and confidential support for any concerns related to your daily life
Healthy and affordable food: you will have access to a corporate canteen and will be able to enjoy a complete meal for just over 1€
Employee discount: 15% on the purchase of IKEA products for personal use
IKEA Vouchers for the most important moments in your life (marriage, cohabitation, birth or adoption of a child)
Corporate discounts: you’ll have access to portal dedicated to our co-workers to enjoy discounts for different activities such as travel, leisure, technology and more
Bonuses: we believe that everyone's contribution is needed to achieve (and exceed!) our goals. Every year all the co-workers can be rewarded for how we develop our business together

Fulltime

Country Home Furnishing & Retail Design Manager

Location

South Korea

Salary:

Not provided

IKEA

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Strong knowledge of home furnishing, retail design, visual merchandising, commercial presentation, and how to translate customer insights into inspiring and commercially effective solutions
Strong understanding of the IKEA Concept, Democratic Design principles, IKEA Brand Identity, IKEA Culture & Values, and how to consistently bring them to life across all customer meeting points
Strong understanding of the IKEA omnichannel reality and how physical and digital customer experiences work together to drive inspiration, conversion, and customer satisfaction
Good understanding of consumer trends, retail trends, and developments within home furnishing, lifestyle, and design that influence customer expectations and shopping behavior
Strong commercial understanding with the ability to balance inspiration, commerciality, growth, profitability, and customer experience
Proven ability to contribute strategically to business planning, commercial strategy development, and commercial calendar processes
Proven leadership capability with experience leading, coaching, and developing high performing teams in a fast changing retail environment
Strong ability to prioritize and coordinate multiple projects, stakeholders, and operational activities while maintaining a clear strategic direction
Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills with the ability to build trusted cross functional relationships across functions, units, and matrix organizations, while working closely with store partners to translate country strategies, commercial priorities, and guidelines into relevant, practical, and executable solutions that create strong customer and commercial impact on the shopfloor
Strong ability to build trusted peer partnerships with Market Managers, creating close collaboration and clear alignment on priorities to ensure the stores receive the right support, direction, and service from the SO in order to enable operational excellence and business growth

Job Responsibility

Responsible for managing resources (people and money): Responsible for people planning within HF&RD. Coordinating and Planning Interior, Graphic and Shop Designer activities, as well as Support in External Marketing Events (running activities, re-furbishing and support to Expansion – as needed). Develop functional budget, ensure approval, forecasting, follow up and coordination with Commercial Manager to secure country goals and functional goals are covered
Responsible for positioning IKEA as a key home furnishing influencer in the local market and be a spokesperson for the home furnishing movement to internal and external partners
Secure the distinctiveness of the brand through the HF knowledge, HF solutions & HF experience across all meeting points
Act as a member of the Commercial Management Team and proactively contribute to the country business plan, commercial strategy and commercial calendar process
Contribute to the growth agenda through the specific knowledge and insights about Home Furnishing and Life at Home
Secure the integrated multichannel executions/output of the function and that solutions across channels drive inspiration and commerciality (in close cooperation with Selling and Marketing), in order to deliver to the business goals
Lead the Functional Reviews process and secure assessment of results to drive performance
Lead, coach and develop a high performing HF&RD team that will strongly contribute to reach the common goals (e.g. growth, profitability, brand positioning, customer experience). Lead the transformation of the HF&RD function in the country
Lead, support and develop the competence of the HF&RD Managers in Stores through Matrix relationship
Actively foster the interdependent leadership and active cooperation across all functions and units, within and outside Commercial, to secure integration, common focus and maximize impact (for example Digital, CFF (Customer Fulfilment), Expansion, Communications, Sustainability, BNOF (Business Navigation Operations & Finance), People & Culture)

Fulltime

Store Visual Merchandiser/Activity Manager

Location

Switzerland , Rothenburg, Luzern

Salary:

Not provided

IKEA

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Education in visual merchandising or industrial design and at least 5 years' experience of working as a visual merchandiser
minimum 2 years' experience in leadership roles
expert in Revit
able to inspire, motivate and engage people fully to reach set goals, and generate growth and long-term profitability
continually seeking new opportunities to make improvements in the way we work and encouraging your team to do the same
challenging your team and yourself in order to strengthen the IKEA Brand and at the same time exceed the expectations of customers
strong hands-on mentality as 90% of your time will be on the shopfloor together with your team
speak both German and English fluently

Job Responsibility

Contributing to positioning the IKEA store as the first choice for home furnishing in your local market
Providing home furnishing solutions for a single product or a combination of products to improve people's life at home
Securing the use of the store layout as a commercial tool to plan and implement commercial strategies throughout the store while creating a good overview and strong visual impact
Recruiting, developing and leading your team

What we offer

28 vacation days (based on a 100% workload)
8 weeks paid parental leave for fathers
20 weeks paid parental leave for mothers
Very attractive social benefits
15% staff discount on your purchase - in every Swiss IKEA store
We pay between 85% and 100% of your yearly travel ticket
Unlimited access to the LinkedIn learning platform
Affordable and healthy meals in our staff canteen (CHF 4.50 for meat dishes and CHF 3.50 for veggie dishes)
Bonus payments for all employees

Fulltime

Manager Communication and Interior Design

Where others see home furnishing products, we see smart solutions to create a be...

Location

Belgium , Zaventem

Salary:

Not provided

IKEA

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Passionate about home furnishing, retail design, trends and customer behavior
Experienced leader that develops and inspires visual merchandise/interior design/graphic design managers and other functions
Sense of entrepreneurship and nose for business to draw up, implement and follow up on short-, mid-, and long term plans and budgets
Solid experience as a creative leader and real team player that knows how to collaborate with colleagues from different functions
Driven to exceed goals, improve ways of working, developing both business and people
Design based education or extensive work experience in a design-orientated role
Always put customers in the center of everything you do

Job Responsibility

Inspire and engage your team to keep the IKEA store vital, up to date and innovative
Lead and develop a high performing and passionate communication & interior design team that achieves goals
Accountable for the layout of the store and to execute range presentations with high quality, strong visual impact and efficiency
Translate the national strategy into a local business plan
Identify current and futures business needs to recruit, develop and retain a high performing team
Spot and act quickly upon commercial opportunities
Create an outstanding customer experience

What we offer

Eco-vouchers
End-of-year bonus, holiday pay and sector premiums
Additional allowance if you come by bike
Private leasing of an electric bike
Comprehensive hospitalization insurance
Private accidents insurance
Pension savings
Leave savings plan: choose how you want your late/early hours to be paid out
Extra-legal holidays, seniority holidays and for full-time colleagues 6 extra days off
Canteen with democratic prices

Fulltime

New

Deputy Com & In Manager

The purpose of this function to inspire and surprise visitors by presenting and ...

Location

India , Hyderabad

Salary:

Not provided

IKEA

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Knowledge of Home furnishing the IKEA way (living situations, style groups, store communication, furnish with light)
Range presentation the IKEA way (layout as a commercial tool, store media, display techniques)
Understand life at home in the local market and the outcome of market research
Understand trends that influence home furnishing
Work method for presenting the range the IKEA way
Understand the IKEA Concept and IKEA Brand objectives, IKEA mechanical sales system, IKEA strategic landscape, global tools and solutions
Understand on how to lead creative processes and how to build business competence through recruitment, competence development, retention and succession
Ability to combine and identify commercial, aesthetic and practical skills
Ability to create a trustful and creative environment
Good analytical and strategic skills, including the ability to steer the store business over the short-, mid- and long term

Job Responsibility

Lead, develop and inspire the Com&In team and other functions in the store in increasing the home furnishing interest of the many people and creating demand for home furnishing solutions and know how in the local market
Be accountable for the store layout, range presentation and store communication thereby contributing to positioning the IKEA Brand as the leader in life at home
Based on the national competence development plan, identify current competence levels in the teams and set up an action plan to develop and retain a high performing and passionate store Com&In team, with potential on succession
Secure ways of working in the store commercial team, secure they have the right understanding of store layout, range presentation and store communication
Secure a deep understanding of Life at Home in the PMA and make the insights to reflect in the business plan process, translated into clear direction for commercial briefs as well as in rebuilds
Secure an accurate Life at home knowledge platform, based on Unit/PMA, with a deep understanding of Local relevancy
Secure the level of knowledge on Life at home and local relevancy is transferred and up to date to the HFRD team and store commercial team

Fulltime

New

Visual Merchandiser - Croydon

IKEA Croydon are looking to welcome a Visual Merchandiser to the store team. We ...

Location

United Kingdom , Croydon

Salary:

30300.00 GBP / Year

IKEA

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

You have a relevant design-based qualification and relevant experience in visual merchandising and/or retail design is a requirement for this role
A working knowledge in design software for example Autodesk REVIT, AutoCAD and Microsoft Office, or comparable applications
You are motivated by retail, home furnishing design and how people live, and have the ability to generate commercial ideas to inspire our customers
You are self-motivated and have a proactive approach, being at ease working with various hand tools and comfortable working at heights
You can handle different situations and are able to efficiently manage your time when working to meet agreed deadlines
Have a creative spirit complemented by commercial understanding and visual skills, with a keen sense of composition and aesthetics

Job Responsibility

Use visual merchandising skills to enhance the uniqueness of the IKEA identity in range presentation solutions in the store by working with store layout, range presentation and vitality
Understanding the local market to create, plan and implement relevant, inspiring, affordable and commercial range presentation solutions that reflect a wide variety of styles, price levels, meet the many individual tastes and satisfy our visitor's expectations
Collaborate with the wider Communication & Interior Design team and can influence other functions, act quickly to exploit commercial opportunities and understand the impact of actions on the financial results
Working with the commercial calendar to implement range changes
You will work proactively each day, using hand tools, power tools, and basic electrical lighting solutions confidently and safely as part of your routine tasks

What we offer

15% IKEA discount & discount portal helping you save £100’s on High-street retailers
Life Assurance of 4 times your pay, enhanced statutory pension contributions & interest free loans
iBenefits – Rewards & discount portal
Free healthy meal option, salad bar, fruit, and hot/cold drinks

Fulltime

Communication & Interior Design group leader

The Communication & Interior Design group leader inspires and surprises visitors...

Location

Morocco , Tétouan

Salary:

Not provided

IKEA

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Extensive experience in Communication & Interior Design, Interior Design, Visual Merchandising, Store Planning or other design-oriented retail functions
Design-based education in Interior Design, Visual Merchandising, Graphic Design, Architecture or related fields
Proven success in leading, inspiring and developing people and creative processes within a fast-paced retail environment
Strong experience in visually expressing and protecting a brand identity
Strong visual competence with a keen eye for aesthetics, commerciality and customer experience
Proven customer-focused and business-driven mindset
Experience in creating and implementing commercial action plans and store communication strategies
Strong communication, coaching and presentation skills with the ability to explain concepts verbally and visually
Proven ability to prioritize, organize and manage multiple projects and teams effectively while meeting deadlines
Experience working cross-functionally and influencing stakeholders at different levels

Job Responsibility

Lead, inspire and develop the store Com&In team, including Interior Design and Visual Merchandising co-workers/managers, to strengthen the uniqueness of the IKEA identity in all customer meeting points
Secure inspiring, relevant and commercial home furnishing solutions through room settings, homes, vignettes, activity areas, store media and sales support areas that reflect a wide variety of living situations, styles and price levels
Lead the team in creating an optimal store layout and range presentation that supports the commercial priorities, customer journey and mechanical sales system
Drive vitality and seasonality in the store by securing a strong commercial calendar and implementing commercial activities that always give customers something new and inspiring to discover
Use knowledge of people’s life at home, customer shopping behaviour, market research and local trends to create relevant, aesthetic and functional solutions that exceed customer expectations
Partner closely with the Store Manager and commercial team to support sales, margin and business goals through impactful visual merchandising, store communication and home furnishing solutions
Secure that global tools, solutions and IKEA concept guidelines are implemented consistently while adapting solutions when needed to make them locally relevant
Ensure the store commercial team has a strong understanding of store layout, range of presentation and store communication to support the IKEA way of presenting the range
Contribute actively to the store business plan, country business plan and Com&In action plan by identifying initiatives that support business growth, customer engagement and long-term profitability
Inspire the team with up-to-date knowledge about home furnishing, retail, design, visual merchandising, sustainability, digital communication and market trends

Fulltime

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